GEOFF CARNE AND THE HATZ 4 Play
GEOFF CARNE AND THE HATZ 4 PLAY Advision UK Geoff Carne has been around for a while – he had a solo album out in 2014 – and Mick Hatz released an album Get Close in 2016 but this is the first release from the pair as a band. And it isn’t bad. I didn’t […]
ANDY WATTS Blues On Fire
ANDY WATTS BLUES ON FIRE Independent Release I’m familiar with Andy Watts as an outstanding guitarist with his regular band Blues Rebels, so I was very pleased to receive a copy of his solo album to review. It would be easy to assume this might be a typical guitarists solo album from the title, and […]
BOBBY G PhD In The Blues
BOBBY G PhD IN THE BLUES Third Street Cigar Records Any band that can call its guitarist Larry “Entertainment” Gold is setting its bar pretty high. Not a problem for The Third Street Cigar Blues Band, who have all their musical abilities at a similarly excellent level. The arrangements are sublime, with lots of gentle […]
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 […]
ROCKWELL AVENUE BLUES BAND Back To Chicago
ROCKWELL AVENUE BLUES BAND BACK TO CHICAGO When five of America’s best and most prolific blues journeymen are brought back to Chicago for a reunion, including Steve Freund and Tad Robinson, you have the ingredients for an exciting, innovative CD that brings it all back home which is exactly what happens on Back To Chicago. […]
VICTOR WAINWRIGHT – Victor Wainwright & The Train
Wainwright is a US bluesman, a recognised and admired producer and performer with a string of US blues awards to his name, and a presence that comes across as big, big, big, here. Wainwright’s voice is truly excellent, like a male version of Janis Joplin, at times raw, powerful, strong and stellar. He hammers the […]
JOE BONAMASSA – British Blues Explosion (live) Album Review plus SWLABR Video
TWO TIMES GRAMMY NOMINATED ARTIST JOE BONAMASSA ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM – ‘BRITISH BLUES EXPLOSION LIVE’ Available on CD/DVD/Blue-Ray & Vinyl from Friday 18th May via Mascot Lable Group Features stunning Bonamassa performances of songs written by legendary guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and more. Following seven UK concerts in March, the celebrated blues-rock guitarist, […]
GRAHAM ROBINS – Majestic Halls
This fifth release from English born musician Graham, previously unknown to this broadcaster, is rather pleasing to the ear. Falling somewhere in the middle ground where Blues, Jazz, Country and Gospel meet might be an easy copout to describe what fayre is on offer here on Majestic Halls but truly that is what you get […]
BOBBY BLAND Here’s The Man!!!
If you ask the question ‘just how blues can you get?’ then the answer has to be Bobby Bland, who sadly left us in 2013. One reason alone is that as a young man harbouring his deep desire to sing he actually worked for B.B. King as his chauffeur and valet. Then, for emotional inspiration, […]
DANNY BRYANT Revelation
Danny Bryant by Rob Blackham To describe Danny Bryant as a ‘national treasure’ is an understatement given his considerable achievements as a professional musician over the past twenty years, progressing from the UK pub scene to international stages. Mentored by Walter Trout whose band he was chosen to front while the American legend recovered from […]
