Blues Matters – now available on your iPhone and iPad
Blues Matters – now available on your iPhone and iPad! The iPad/iPhone edition brings you selected pages from the latest issue as soon as it is available. You can subscribe within the application for full access, which brings you every page of the issue and a searchable archive back to September 2008. Issues are not […]
JON ALLEN Deep River
JON ALLEN Deep River Absolute via Universal There’s a brand of music pretty much spearheaded by Jon Allen that you might dub Anglicana…I say that tongue in cheek as I don’t care for labelling. But it embraces acoustic and folk elements, blues, early Rock ’n’ Roll, Celtic – especially as regards the major-scale melodies – […]
JOSH HOYER AND THE SHADOWBOXERS – Josh Hoyer And The Shadowboxers
JOSH HOYER AND THE SHADOWBOXERS Josh Hoyer And The Shadowboxers Independent This CD is best described as being a funky house party. Out of Lincoln, Nebraska, Josh has been around a good few years in various guises. Opening, funnily enough, with Shadowboxer, Brian Morrow (bass) and Justin G Jones (drums), lay down a funky groove, […]
KYLE ESPLIN K
KYLE ESPLIN K Confido Piano rules as Scottish Kyle Esplin takes your ear for a roller coaster of a ride up and down the ivories as you are transported back to 50’s Rock and Roll and Boogie Woogie the dance hall is full and you just have to dance, shake those hips and smile at […]
LEXIE GREEN Breathe
LEXIE GREEN Breathe Fifty Road At last a home grown artist, based I am guessing in Cambridgeshire, we have here a 9 original tracks, all written by Lexie. Having listened to the whole album, I am inclined to think that calling this a Blues release is a little exaggeration, as it is more Country pop […]
MARK SAUNDERS Slide EP
MARK SAUNDERS Slide EP Independent This four track demo E.P. from West Country blues artist Mark Saunders is an interesting introduction to someone who might just develop his style into something credible. Four covers, Not Fade Away, Tush, Taxman and Gimme Shelter, give a clue to his influences and they are canny tunes to crack. […]
MATTHEW PATRICK Welcome To The Yard Sale EP
MATTHEW PATRICK Welcome To The Yard Sale EP Independent 5 track EP from a cross Atlantic cooperation between Maryland and Zambia! Apparently Matthews chief collaborator (Andrew Diamond) relocated to Zambia and Matt writes the songs, and Andrew lays down the rhythms, whatever, it seems to work, and you have the results here, 4 originals and […]
MIKEY JUNIOR Travelling South
MIKEY JUNIOR Travelling South 8th Train Records This CD gets off to a cracking start with the title song written by our very own British Blues father figure Mike Vernon, it is not a song I can recall being recorded by any other artist but it is a strong opener for this album, performed by […]
MR. BO WEAVIL As A Striving Lonesome Bull
MR BO WEAVIL As A Striving Lonesome Bull DixieFrog Matthieu Fromont – a.k.a. Mr Bo Weavil – used to front the down-home rocking French band Bo Weavil. The multi-instrumentalist is solo on this set, playing electric and acoustic guitars, banjo, bass, percussion, harmonica, flute, mouth-harp and I may have missed something… he also has a […]
ODETTA Sings Ballads And Blues Plus At Carnegie Hall
ODETTA Sings Ballads And Blues Plus At Carnegie Hall Soul Jam What do you mean you haven’t got a copy of the debut solo album from Odetta? For shame, because everyone’s home should have a copy of the defining folk record that is Sings Ballads And Blues, which came out way back in 1956. Here […]
