by Marketing-PR | Mar 4, 2015 | Album Reviews C, News
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...
by Marketing-PR | Oct 21, 2014 | Album Reviews C, News
THE CITY BOYS ALLSTARS Blinded By The Night Independent Allstars is a bit of a claim for any band, but if anyone can justify it, then it’s The City Boys Allstars. After all, any blues fan with even a cursory knowledge of the genre will recognise the names “Blue Lou”...
by Marketing-PR | Aug 25, 2014 | Album Reviews C, News
CHUCK E. WEISS Red Beans And Weiss Anti There’s no doubt Mr Weiss’s name is more famous than his music, he can thank Rickie Lee Jones for that courtesy of her hit Chuck E’s In Love way back in 1979. Also, there’s the fact that Weiss has not been exactly prolific,...
by Marketing-PR | Aug 25, 2014 | Album Reviews C, News
CHUCK BERRY Greatest Hits Chess CDX 2 CD set I first heard Chuck Berry in the early hours of one morning in 1957 as his pile-driving guitar cut through the static on Europe’s American Forces Network radio. At school later that day, the conversation buzzed around the...
by Marketing-PR | Aug 25, 2014 | Album Reviews C, News
CATSKIN Catskin MCW Records This album opens innocuously with Rollin’ Man, and honestly it did little or nothing to stir me to enthuse gushingly over Catskin. The guitar work though is a shining light in the gloomy lyrics of this and the second track Hoochie Coochie...
by Marketing-PR | Aug 11, 2014 | Album Reviews C, News
CHRISTINA SKJOLBERG – Come And Get It Ruf Records The cd case says it all, really, yet another young blonde Scandinavian dressed in leather, posing with a guitar. Christina Skjolberg hails from Norway, has a Jimi Hendrix tattoo on her shoulder, but by the end of the...