JOE TOPPING The Vagrant Kings
JOE TOPPING The Vagrant Kings. Fellside Records. Joe Topping is well known on the British folk scene having played with Andy Irvine, Ashley Hutchings, Home Service, While and Matthews and various members of Fairport Convention. The album contains ten tracks of self-penned songs plus one cover and the style is a mix of folk, Americana […]
JOSH HOYER AND THE SHADOWBOXERS – Josh Hoyer And The Shadowboxers
JOSH HOYER AND THE SHADOWBOXERS Josh Hoyer And The Shadowboxers Independent This CD is best described as being a funky house party. Out of Lincoln, Nebraska, Josh has been around a good few years in various guises. Opening, funnily enough, with Shadowboxer, Brian Morrow (bass) and Justin G Jones (drums), lay down a funky groove, […]
JON ALLEN Deep River
JON ALLEN Deep River Absolute via Universal There’s a brand of music pretty much spearheaded by Jon Allen that you might dub Anglicana…I say that tongue in cheek as I don’t care for labelling. But it embraces acoustic and folk elements, blues, early Rock ’n’ Roll, Celtic – especially as regards the major-scale melodies – […]
JOE TURNER The Real Boss Of The Blues
JOE TURNER The Real Boss Of The Blues Ace This was originally recorded in 1969 and released on Bob Thiele’s Bluestime label. Presumably also, before Joe became ‘Big’. All eight original tracks are on here, plus a couple of live ones. Thiele put together a crack band, the rhythm section included drummer Paul Humphrey, bassist […]
JOEL JOHNSON Blues Joose Vol.II
JOEL JOHNSON Blues Joose Vol.II Independent Joel is a well-established blues musician from the six nations in Ontario, Canada. He was a founder member, along with his late great friend and mentor Paul ‘Joose’ Mitten of the widely known band, The Blues House Hustlers. After a good number of years of playing together in the […]
JOHN AND SYLVIA EMBRY Troubles
JOHN AND SYLVIA EMBRY Troubles Delmark This was their first L.P. as the promo says; when they got together to do this album something happened …. there is a little magic here you can’t find anywhere else. How very true this Chicago sound blends the vocals from Sylvia that are gospel, blues tinged along with […]
JOHN MAYALL A Special Life
JOHN MAYALL A Special Life Forty Below Records One of the most important dates for British blues was 29th November 1933 as that was the date John Mayall was born. In the year of his 80th birthday we have a new and dynamic album from one of the most important bluesmen out of the UK. […]
JOHNNY COX Thin Blue Line
JOHNNY COX Thin Blue Line Rich Greenpool Hoots mon! It’s Scotch expat Johnny Cox letting rip from his adopted Canadian homeland on an all original set of songs for his debut album. Considering he claims to be influenced by the usual white boy blues influences of Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan, it’s unfortunate that […]
JOHNNY WINTER True To The Blues
JOHNNY WINTER True To The Blues – The Johnny Winter Story Sony/Legacy Here we have a well-deserved career-spanning collection of high energy blues from one of the masters. Sony/Legacy just presented us with the marvellous Mike Bloomfield box set and here is another that simply MUST be added to our collections. The many live tracks […]
