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Glen Clark – You Tell Me GlenCo Records/Blind Raccoon Promotions www.glenclarkmusic.com CD: 10 Songs, 35:00 Minutes Styles: Piano Blues, Ensemble Blues, Contemporary Electric Blues Rock “Sing us a song – you’re the piano man.” Eight words from Billy Joel, so simple yet so haunting, have etched themselves into our collective memory. From Pinetop Perkins …
Laurie Jane & The 45s – Late Last Night – Elixir Of Sara Martin Down In The Alley Records – 2018 12 tracks; 42 minutes www.lauriejaneandthe45s.com Sara Martin was from Louisville, Kentucky, a blues singer who was extensively recorded in the 1920’s (including for the Okeh label) and wrote many of her own songs. Sadly, …
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Atomic Road Kings – Clean Up The Blood Bigtone Records 12 songs – 39 minutes Big Jon Atkinson is a relatively young blues artist with musical sensibilities that sit squarely in bygone eras, so it’s no wonder that the debut recording he’s made with his all-star band, The Atomic Road Kings, turns back the clock …
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Katie Henry – High Road Self-Release – 2018 10 tracks; 44 minutes www.katiehenrymusic.com Katie Henry is a young multi-instrumentalist from New Jersey and on her debut disc she plays piano, clavinet and guitar as well as handling all lead vocals. The band is John Ginty on keys (who also produced the album), Jonathan Fritz on …
John Clifton – In The Middle Of Nowhere Rip Cat Records RIC 1901 11 songs – 53 minutes www.johncliftonmusic.com Harp player/vocalist has been a fixture in the Central California music scene since the late ‘80s, and shows why with this collection of straight-ahead Chicago- and West Coast-style blues and R&B that’s both powerful and cliché-free. …
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Shane Dwight – No One Loves Me Better www.shanedwight.com Red Parlor Records 10 songs time-35:59 The music of Shane Dwight owes more to the Southern Rock sound than to blues-rock. His gruff and soulful voice is fine. His guitar musings fit right in with the cluttered cacophony of instruments and voices. He has enlisted a …
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Meg Williams – Take Me As I Am – The Muscle Shoals Sessions NOLA Blues Records – 2019 12 tracks; 46 minutes www.megwilliamsmusic.com Nashville-based singer/songwriter Meg Williams made a good impression with her 2017 EP Maybe Someday and now follows that up with a full-length album recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Meg …
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AWEK – Let’s Party Down www.awekblues.com self release 14 songs time-58:38 Twenty five years into a solid European blues career and I’m just hearing about this magnificent French blues band. With just guitar, bass, drums and harmonica they create a full sound as you hear on the bonus live CD. Of course on the studio …
Michael Mills – Dream A Dream Self Released www.michaelmillsband.com 5 tracks/19 minutes The Michael Mills Band hails from Huntington Beach, California and has a big, rocking blues sound. Fronted by Mills on vocals and guitar, the band is Jesse Godny on guitar, Anthony Hass on bass, David Warrick Jones on keys and Frank Cotinola. Featuring …
Magic Slim & The Teardrops – I’m Gonna Play The Blues Wolf Records – 2019 14 tracks; 79 minutes Wolf Records clearly thought that they had exhausted the supply of Magic Slim & The Teardrops material with their release of Pure Magic in 2014 but then the recordings of this live concert from 2010 in …
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