STOMPIN’ DAVE – Keyboard Blues
Album Review for Stompin’ Dave – Keyboard Blues – Released Independently. Twenty-two tracks of piano-based Boogie-woogie and Blues, just vocal and piano and all the songs written by Stompin’ Dave himself, what’s not to like? In fact, everything was done by Stompin’ Dave, songwriting, playing, recording, mixing, photography and as far as I know, he packaged […]
EAMONN McCORMACK – Storyteller
Album Review for Eamonn McCormack – Storyteller – Released on BEM Records. This is the Dublin blues-rocker Eamonn McCormack’s seventh release and it encapsulates an eclectic mix of music styles and formats. They are all originals written by this talented singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist. It has a retrospective feel to it and offers the listener an […]
Q&A With BRIAN TEMPLETON
Proving His Dues To The Blues – vocalist, songwriter and harmonica player, Brian Templeton has blues music in his DNA as they say. Probably best known for his work with The Radio Kings, and plying his trade with The Delta Generators who he still plays the harmonica with, and provides lead vocals. Recently he joined […]
RUTHIE FOSTER Live At The Paramount – Interview & Review
In conversation with Ruthie Foster by Colin Campbell. Three times Grammy Nominee Ruthie Foster brings her Big Band – and her Glam – to go Live At The Paramount, out on 15th May 2020 on Blue Corn Music. Austin, Texas – For her latest album, Ruthie Foster decided she wanted to change things up, to step out, and […]
THE JAMES HUNTER SIX – Nick of Time
Album Review for The James Hunter Six – Nick of Time Released on Daptone Records Album number eight from the British soul singer who’s doing very nicely over there in the home of soul music. Unless you count the four records he made when he was still Howlin’ Wilf from Essex. Yes, it’s a long […]
DUSTBOWL REVIVAL Is It You, Is It Me
Album Review for Dustbowl Revival – Is It You, Is It Me – Released Independently. Dustbowl Revival is a Los Angeles based band that really are breaking the rules in musical adaptation to the genre. They are constantly evolving as a group and on this thirteen track new release, there are so many layers and […]
JIM ROBERTS & THE RESONANTS – A Month of Sundays
Album Review for Jim Roberts & the Resonants – A Month of Sundays. Jim Roberts is no newcomer to the blues world. In a previous incarnation, he was the true mastermind behind the JRHB band, a US West Coast outfit that exploded onto the scene with the memorably excellent eponymous ‘Devil on a Dirt Road’ […]
RICHARD RAY FARRELL – Three Pints of Gin
Album Review for Richard Ray Farrell – Three Pints of Gin – Released on Blue Beet Records. ‘Three Pints of Gin’ is the first new release from US bluesman, Richard Ray Farrell, in a few years now. Farrell is mostly based in Spain these days, but this latest release was mastered, produced and recorded with […]
JIMMY ‘DUCK’ HOLMES – Cypress Grove
Album Review – Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes – Cypress Grove – Released via East Eye Sound. 72-year-old Bentonia, Mississippi bluesman back with a new album produced by Dan Auerbach (Black Keys) with an 11-song set of raw Juke-Joint blues. First up is Holmes singing and playing solo on his variation of Skip James’ classic Hard Times. […]
RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS Contemporary
Album Review – RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS – Contemporary – Released on Alligator Records. I work alongside an insufferably pompous experimental rock fan, who comes out with tosh like ‘all blues sounds the same to me anyway’ every time I argue that Einstürzende Neubauten have to be the most boring band in the world. Hearing […]