RICHARD RAY FARRELL Shoe Shoppin’ Woman
RICHARD RAY FARRELL Shoe Shoppin’ Woman Blue Beet / Bandwagon The title track tells you he “can’t afford the expense, she’s got more shoes than sense” over a sparky electric guitar lurch that by design or happenstance draws on the classic Barefootin’. Richard Ray’s got a great blues voice that’s totally at home with the […]
ROB HERON AND THE TEA PAD ORCHESTRA Talk About The Weather
ROB HERON AND THE TEA PAD ORCHESTRA Talk About The Weather Tea Pad Recordings Let me start by saying this CD is not a straight blues CD. In fact, some of the songs lean towards jazz, and a couple even verge on vaudeville, but I don’t say that in a negative way. The opening track […]
ROD CLEMENTS Rendezvous Café
ROD CLEMENTS Rendezvous Café Batsville BATCD03 This album comprises 26 highly memorable songs written or co-written by Clements, the founding pillar of folk-rock legends Lindisfarne, each one recorded acoustically as originally conceived. Some tracks like Meet Me On The Corner were later developed into Top Ten hits whilst others such as Train In G Major […]
RON BEER The Blues Don’t Say It All
RON BEER The Blues Don’t Say It All Independent Not knowing much about Ron Beer, after listening to the first two tracks of this fine album I decided to find out more. Ron Beer is Canadian, from Ontario, and holds a degree in song writing. He’s put that academic base to good use by the […]
SAM COOKE Bring It On Home To Me 1954-1962
SAM COOKE Bring It On Home To Me 1954-1962 Hoodoo Records Another definitive Sam Cooke odyssey comprising fifty songs on this re-mastered original recording. This wonderful 2CD edition includes all the hits he recorded for different labels, such as Specialty, Keen, SAR and RCA-Victor, between 1954 and 1962. It contains the finest moments and most […]
SHANE DWIGHT This House
SHANE DWIGHT This House Rock House 12 tracks from a very experienced Blues rock guitarist, this being his 9th album release. Shane has written all of the tracks and co-written 2 of them with Bekka Bramlett who sings with him on the album. This is another album that is just right from the word go, […]
THE PRETTY THINGS Live At The 100 Club
THE PRETTY THINGS Live At The 100 Club LMS There are few people in the world that I look up to more than Pretty Things vocalist and songwriter Phil May and one of my proudest moments was opening for the Things at this very venue a few years ago. May calls me ‘Sargeant Major’, tongue […]
THE RANDY STEPHENS BAND No Strings Attached
THE RANDY STEPHENS BAND No Strings Attached Independent Here, you get what it says on the tin – Florida blues, straight and direct with no frills and no monkeying about. No surprise maybe that a tune named Bad Economy features Stephens’ times-is-hard, downbeat vocal, it’s an impressive stretching number with stratospheric guitar flying over Randy […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS Classic Blues From Bluesville
VARIOUS ARTISTS Classic Blues From Bluesville Not Now Music This three CD set of twenty tracks per disc from Bluesville which was a subsidiary to the Prestige label was yet another of those fabulously innovative labels of the time that set the trend for so many artists and enthusiasts giving that spark of life to […]
VARIOUS ARTISTS Into The Shadow Of Sun
VARIOUS ARTISTS Into The Shadow Of Sun Fantastic Voyage Following the success of Sun Records in Memphis in the 50’s, there followed an explosion in the number of indie labels who wanted to replicate the success that had gone before. The population of Memphis had spiralled and the time was right to test the waters […]
