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05 Mar

Posted at 16:06h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1072" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Big Daddy Wilson was born over 50 years ago in a small town called Edenton, North Carolina. “We were very poor, but I had a very beautiful childhood” , Wilson remembers. “Me...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:58h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1074" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Bill Perry ranks among the best of a new generation of blues performers.  He’s a stunning guitar master, or, as Guitar One put it, a “six-string superman more powerful...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:35h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1076" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Who would have thought the Man from the North was a highly sensitive soul ? This is the major revelation from the Norwegian bluesman’s 10th album. Throughout Fretwork, Bjørn Berge...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:31h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1077" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Swinging the beat, swinging from the heels and coming out from the corner swinging: Each meaning applies to the brilliant new record from the volcanic force of nature that...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:22h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1078" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Born two years ago of the reunion in North Carolina of three young African-American players (the oldest member of the trio just turned thirty), the Carolina Chocolate Drops are...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:15h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1079" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Duke Robillard : A guitar master’s constant commitment to roots music and blues. Here’s a quick quiz : What do Bob Dylan, Jay McShann, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Hammond,...

05 Mar

Posted at 15:01h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1695" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] 'This strange time had me thinking and putting everything into perspective. And I said to myself, enough of the superfluous, if this is my last album, I don't want...

05 Mar

Posted at 14:51h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1318" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Billy Price was the featured vocalist with the Roy Buchanan band for many years, winning over audiences everywhere with his soul-drenched blues tenor. A studio album recently chronicled his...

05 Mar

Posted at 14:42h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1083" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] Decades after their inspired beginnings in the segregated Old South, between the world wars, and famous for propelling the religious music of African Americans into the musical mainstream, Elvis...

05 Mar

Posted at 14:20h in

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="1085" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_tta_pageable][vc_tta_section title="Section 1" tab_id="1576579061665-12a4113e-dab7"][vc_column_text] A studio album from Ian Siegal is always a seismic event. Recent times have seen this award-winning British songwriter put untold miles on the clock, with the spit-and-grit of...