BENNY TURNER Journey
BENNY TURNER Journey Nola Blue It’s a great title for a true blues CD, because that’s what the blues is – a journey. Texan Benny Turner’s journey has been a classic voyage through the blues. He was bass player with the late, great Freddie King and musical companion to Marva Wright. This impressive collection of ten […]
BILL PHILLIPE Ghosts
BILL PHILLIPE Ghosts Arkansas Street Records Bill has been playing, recording and performing blues based music in one form or another for over thirty year’s now, mainly in and around the San Francisco Bay area. For the last ten year’s though he has focused mainly upon New Orleans Deep Funk; in which time he released three […]
BLUE HEAT One Day Too Long
BLUE HEAT One Day Too Long. Smith Sound. Blue Heat is producing a sound that is full of rhythm and horns creating a sound that is as hot as the Australian sun they play under; it is no wonder they are winning awards since their debut gig way back in 1991 at Ballarat Blues Festival. […]
BLUES ENGINE Dance Macabre
BLUES ENGINE Dance Macabre. Independant. Blues Engine are well named. Raw Blues with most of the fripperies and modern affections removed they hit hard and run off chortling into the distance. The band are London based and since September 2013 they have amassed a pretty good set of gigs in their CV including Ronnie Scotts, […]
BOB MALONE Mojo EP
BOB MALONE Mojo EP. Delta Moon Records. This 6-track collection was recorded in Hollywood and Calabassas, California, written by Bob Malone and his guitar compadre Bob Demarco, with the tastefully chosen exception of Ray Charles’ Hard Times. Their version is respectful to Ray’s 1961 original but is, at the same time, a personalised interpretation of […]
BRIAN E COPE Old New Borrowed & Blue
BRIAN E COPE Old New Borrowed & Blue. Flagstop Records. Presented in a quirky cover pertaining to a wedding invitation this makes for engrossing listening. Well I suppose the title gives it away and the smart bow tied photograph of this acclaimed musician on the back. But no this is not a wedding album just […]
CHRISTIAN BLEIMING Boogie-Woogie With A Touch Of Blues
CHRISTIAN BLEIMING Boogie-Woogie With A Touch Of Blues. Acoustic Music Records. This is the ninth release by acclaimed German pianist hailing from the back street down town honky tonk area of Cologne and is affectionately known as the Westfaila boogie king. This is a seventeen track release of old classic blues numbers such as the […]
THE SNYDERS Growing Pains
THE SNYDERS Growing Pains. Independent Release. The Snyders are a family trio from Indiana comprising of father and lead bandsman previously having had several solo releases under name of Southside Denny Snyder this is their second release and comprises also on electric bass guitar and vocals his daughter Lorrie and finally brother Philip on drums […]
DAN WEBSTER The Tin Man
DAN WEBSTER The Tin Man. Paper Plane Records. Here is a lyricist who can play his instruments with aplomb, and has written songs which resonate to life and is vocally, a joy to listen to. Webster has been on the music scene for some time but does not have the credit his work demands. That […]
DANI DORCHIN One Man Band
DANI DORCHIN One Man Band. Autoprod. This is one of those albums that take you back to the days of the old one man and a dog sort of raggy, bluesy thumping-along style of jangling blues. Not fully Jesse Fuller but aiming firmly in that direction. Dorchin is an Israeli-based troubadour who plays at times […]
