JOHN CLIFTON Nightlife
JOHN CLIFTON NIGHTLIFE Rip Cat Records The John Clifton Blues Band are one of those utterly efficient hard-working outfits known throughout the US and Europe. Clocking up 150 gigs per year they’ve toured and recorded with Muddy Waters’ son, Big Bill Morganfield and headlined on major Blues Festivals in the U.S., Europe, Fiji, and New […]
JORDAN OFFICER Three Rivers
JORDAN OFFICER THREE RIVERS Spectra Musique Singer, guitarist and songwriter Jordan Officer is from Montreal in Canada and began playing violin and drums as a youngster. This is relevant to this CD as he plays excellent swinging violin on three tracks here, including the closer, Buck Jumping In New Orleans, on which the drum beat […]
KID RAMOS Old School
KID RAMOS OLD SCHOOL Ripcat Records This album kicks off with a tribute to the legendary B.B. King and the Kid himself demonstrates his own guitar playing and if he’s not an identikit of BB then he’s not far short of it with a dexterity that has been honed over many years. The first track […]
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, […]