BOBBY G WITH CURTIS GRANT, JR. & THE MIDNIGHT ROCKERS Still Standing
What a find! This is pure blues, no hybrid here. Unbelievably, this is Bobby G’s first feature album, laid down at age 73. There’s a wealth of living in his singing. The backing music is superb, usually, lead guitar over a walking bass. This is also the debut album for this label; one can only […]
BENJAMIN FOLKE THOMAS Copenhagen
This is a beautifully crafted compendium of folk/Americana music from Benjamin Folke Thomas blended with hints of the blues. The lyrics are all sensitively written and very meaningful and ought to be listened to with an open ear. This is a consummate musician with more talent than one man should have. His guitar playing is […]
BAD TOUCH Truth Be Told
Bad Touch – Truth Be Told Having seen Bad Touch supporting the Kentucky Headhunters earlier this year, it doesn’t surprise me that Truth Be Told comes hurtling out of the traps like a cheetah in need of its dinner. Energy and enthusiasm are their stock in trade. What’s surprising is the focus and quality that […]
BACKTRACK BLUES BAND Way Back Home
Backtrack Blues Band – Way Back Home This is blues par excellence, raw essential blues and quintessentially this type of music is what the term was designed for! When a group have been together for as long as these guys have in their third decade, then you know you’re on the right road to musical […]
BLUE HWY Carpe Diem: Live At The Coach House
BLUE HWY Carpe Diem: Live At The Coach House. Far West Mississippi Recordings FMWR-3016. Formed in nineteen ninety-three, in California, B.H. played an attractive mixture of Southern Blues and Rock, they consisted of: John Harrelson; guitar, vocals, Rob Donofrio; bass, vocals, “King” Roger Ehrnman; tenor sax and Rob Campos; drums. Their vigorous and foot tapping style […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
