MISS LADY BLUES – Moe Betta Blues – album review
MISS LADY BLUES – Moe Betta Blues – album review
Moon – Shine: Album Review
Shine is a fine release, showing what this talented duo can produce.
MARK SOMERS Restless Poetry
Album Review; Mark Somers – Restless Poetry – Released Independently. Do you remember when the US Delta Force blasted Van Halen and AC/DC for three days to force Manuel Noriega to leave the Vatican Embassy? That wouldn’t work for me. If I’m ever a dictator that the Americans take umbrage at then all they need […]
MAGIC SLIM & THE TEARDROPS I’m Gonna Play The Blues
Album Review; Magic Slim And The Teardrops – I’m Gonna Play The Blues – Released on Wolf Records. One of the foremost blues legends recorded live in Vienna in 2010, Magic Slim (Morris Holt) performs in one of his last ever gigs. Come On In This House is the opener and straight away you get the […]
MICHAEL KAESHAMMER Something New
Album Review German-born pianist Michael Kaeshammer – a fixture on the jazz scene in his adopted home of Canada for over two decades – has come up with an 11-song album of material recorded on a recent trip to New Orleans. It’s sophisticated fare, and there is no gainsaying either his musical ability on various […]
MEMPHIS SLIM Live In Paris 27th May 1961
MEMPHIS SLIM LIVE IN PARIS MAY 27TH 1961 Released by Body and Soul Considering this live recording is slightly older than me, it’s amazing just how fresh it sounds. From the opening track Chicago Boogie Woogie you realize just how good Memphis Slim really is. A great opening track for the gig in Paris. As […]
MEMPHIS MINNIE Killer Driller Blues
MEMPHIS MINNIE KILLER DILLER BLUES [Her Best 24 Songs] Led Zeppelin famously loved Memphis Minnie’s When The Levee Breaks so much that they thought they had written it themselves. Astoundingly that track isn’t on this compilation, which features tracks recorded between 1929 and 1953, but other Memphis Minnie classics like Bumble Bee, In My Girlish […]
MARCO PICCIONI TRIO Far
Marco Piccioni Trio It is a pity when a review of such a brilliant and original album starts by questioning whether the contents generally constitute blues or not, but a genre specific magazine owes it to the readers to clarify this matter. Ok, so some of the music comprises contemporary jazz flavoured improvisations better suited […]
MARTIN SIMPSON & DOM FLEMONS Ever Popular Favourites
Martin Simpson & Dom Flemons Ever Popular Favourites The album comprises of twelve tracks that are as they state ever popular to lovers of acoustic music, recorded live during their sell-out autumn 2015 tour. Simpson and Flemons find a unity as they harmonise what are the common core of roots acoustic music from each side […]
MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Spike Driver Blues
MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Spike Driver Blues The years between the first and second World Wars were the incubation period for the blues. All the big, brash styles we came to know later, wailing electric guitars, electric bass and punchy brass sections were still years ahead. It was the burgeoning talent and ingenuity of simple yet […]
