THE PRETTY THINGS The Sweet Pretty Things (Are In Bed Now, Of Course…)
THE PRETTY THINGS The Sweet Pretty Things (Are In Bed Now, Of Course…) Repertoire And now ladies and gentlemen for your sheer delight after a seven year hiatus we have for you at last a new album from the celebrated, original, irreverent, naughty boys who allegedly out naughtied the Rolling Stones (a while ago) yes […]
TOOTS LORRAINE Make It Easy
TOOTS LORRAINE Make It Easy Greaseland Records Toots (Tyra Dant) Lorraine and The Traffic are from and continue to reside in the Jacksonville, Florida area. The music they focus upon with such obvious delight and relish, is straight down the line blues, with particular attention being paid and displayed to the sounds and flavours of […]
TRISTAN MACKAY Wire And Wood
TRISTAN MACKAY Wire And Wood Battered Hat Records Having seen Tristan MacKay as support act for Eric Johnson last year, this was an album I was wanting to listen to. Live, he played electric guitar and pedals, but here the songs on this crowd-funded release are acoustic, with full band backing. Although he is using […]
VARIOUS Ain’t Gonna Hush The Queens Of Rhythm & Blues
VARIOUS Ain’t Gonna Hush The Queens Of Rhythm & Blues Fantastic Voyage – 3 CD Set I met up with Paul Jones recently and he hauled me over the coals for one of my CD reviews in BM which he thought was out of order. I never got to know which artist or band it […]
VARIOUS Hard Time Blues 1927-1960
VARIOUS Hard Time Blues 1927-1960 Fremeaux & Associates – 2CD set Hats off to France’s Jean Buzelin and Jacques Demêtre for putting together this fine and thought-provoking collection. These 48 tracks vividly demonstrate African America’s attitude, via the blues, to the festering problems of racism, unemployment, poverty and the depression. And what a who’s who […]
VLADI Back Pain
VLADI Back Pain DPP Records Vladi are in Italian blues rock band, who are very much in thrall to the sound of the British blues boom of the sixties. So in no particular order, that means the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds, Cyril Davies, Alexis Korner and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Which isn’t a bad […]
ZOE SCHWARZ BLUES COMMOTION I’ll Be Yours Tonight
ZOE SCHWARZ BLUES COMMOTION I’ll Be Yours Tonight 33 Jazz Following three excellent studio albums in successive years, a live CD representing the best of these is undoubtedly the only way in which Zoe and her band could have exceeded expectations for 2015. This is because all 12 tracks are extended versions recorded at an […]
