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“Compass is actually the former Super_Collider frontman’s funkiest outing yet, with no shortage of booty-shaking bass, gritty drum grooves, or gnarly vintage-keyboard textures…The expansive supporting cast here includes Beck, Chilly Gonzales, and Nikka Costa.”–The Phoenix
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“This is hardcore, raw, unvarnished music that aims straight for the pelvis. Throw James Brown, Sam & Dave, and Wilson Pickett into a deep fryer and you’re close to Lewis’ knockout vocal attack. Fun, frisky, lascivious, and impossible to stay seated to, Black Joe Lewis has successfully tapped into a hip-shaking old-school groove [...]
Guy Davis: Sweetheart Like You
Posted in Blues on May 5th, 2010
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“Guy Davis continues to explore the almost forgotten territory of acoustic African-American folk music, field hollers, shouts, rags, and gospel songs in a style that predates the blues and has much in common with the white Appalachian music that existed until the record companies separated it into race and hillbilly music.”–All Music Guide
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“Buckwheat Zydeco has always been fun, a zydeco dance band guaranteed to get your feet moving, and Dural’s live shows are sweaty, funky dance-a-thons, but with Lay Your Burden Down, he has given us something else again, an album that works both at the dance party and still rings clear the next day [...]
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“Taylor’s tunes build and build like good dramas; he tells stories through song, and the music does the talking as much as the lyrics do.”–Boston Globe
Michael Johns: Hold Back My Heart
Posted in Blues, Rock/Pop, Soul, Southern Rock on Oct 2nd, 2009
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“Johns makes his post-Idol debut with Hold Back My Heart, a surprisingly strong album that finds him doing what he does best: soul, Southern rock, and contemporary blues.
Judy Wallace Group: Cape Blues
Posted in Blues, Performed at the Crane on Feb 22nd, 2009
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“Cape Blues is a top-notch release that should please any blues fan. Ms. Wallace’s voice is on a par with most blues singers and the back-up performances are excellent. The album is casual but has a smoldering intensity.”–New Bedford Standard-Times
Jumpin’ Juba: Bumpity-Bump
Posted in Blues, New Orleans Blues, Performed at the Crane on Feb 3rd, 2009
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“It only takes pianist Bruce Ward’s first few notes of the opening track of Jumpin’ Juba’s debut CD Bumpity Bump to know you’re in for a good time. “Funny Farm” pretty much guarantees that anytime you put the disc in your CD player or you catch the group featuring frontman and guitarist [...]
Irma Thomas: Simply Grand
Posted in Blues, New Orleans Blues on Dec 18th, 2008
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“True to its punny title, Simply Grand features Thomas in the company of 13 piano players laying down accompaniment on the acoustic grand. The tunes are old and new, borrowed and blue, but Thomas makes them all her own. The most powerful tracks here showcase Thomas and a solo pianist, bringing the feel [...]
Buddy Guy: Skin Deep
Posted in Blues, Chicago Blues on Dec 3rd, 2008
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“Touted as his first album of original material, Skin Deep does work as an effective showcase for Buddy’s most original voice: his wild, gnarly guitar. The production may be crisp and clean but Buddy refuses to play polite, messing up the pristine surfaces with big, nasty, ugly smears of guitar…Elsewhere, the music slips [...]
B.B. King: One Kind Favor
Posted in Blues, Memphis Blues on Nov 21st, 2008
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“It’s been so long since B.B. King stepped outside of his comfort zone that One Kind Favor comes as a bit of a shock. Unlike so many albums he’s cut in the wake of the crossover success of The Thrill Is Gone way back in 1970, the sound is stripped-back, not splashy, there [...]
The third album from Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum artist Los Lonely Boys, a rock band from San Angelo, Texas. They play a style of music which they dub as Texican Rock n’ Roll, combining elements of Rock’N’Roll, Blues, Soul, Country, and Tejano.
Dr. John and the Lower 911: City That Care Forgot
Posted in Blues, New Orleans Blues, Rock/Pop on Sep 25th, 2008
Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Ani Difranco and Terence Blanchard join Dr. John and the Lower 911 in this musical paean to Dr. John’s beloved New Orleans. This powerful new recording features stirring and thought-provoking songs about the post-Katrina crises in the ravaged jewel of the American South, including “City That Care Forgot,” “Time for a [...]
“Two Men with the Blues is no more a jazz album than a blues album. It’s neither jazz returning home, nor blues wandering out. What Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis have created is a compilation of jump-blues standards with arrangements that compliment both genres. Both Nelson and Marsalis are notorious for collaborating with other [...]