by Marketing-PR | Sep 18, 2018 | Album Reviews, Album Reviews M, News
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...
by Marketing-PR | Aug 8, 2017 | Album Reviews M, News
Marco Piccioni TrioIt 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...
by Marketing-PR | Apr 25, 2017 | Album Reviews M, News
Martin Simpson & Dom Flemons Ever Popular FavouritesThe 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...
by Marketing-PR | Apr 8, 2017 | Album Reviews M, News
MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Spike Driver BluesThe 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...
by Marketing-PR | Apr 3, 2017 | Album Reviews M, News
Micky Moody & Bernie Marsden Real FaithLest we forget, Whitesnake was a BLUES BAND. For five years, from 1978 to 1983 the Moody-Marsden twin guitar axis combined with David Coverdale’s vocals to create a beefed-up blues sound that was both uniquely British and...
by Marketing-PR | Mar 4, 2015 | Album Reviews M, News
MUDSLIDE CHARLEY New & Used. Club SHMED Studio. This is full of joy and fun the album has been dipped into the blues as heard in the undertones, but there is much more so this is a fresh modern and mainstream sound with a pop beat, hint of Latin and is a great...