Bman's Blues Report

I just had the opportunities to review one of the best pop collections ever assembled and it's terrific. That's right...I'm talking about the Mamas and the Papas and The Complete Singles 50th Anniversary Collection . Sure, this collection has all of the radio tracks, Go Where You Wanna Go , California Dreamin' , Monday Monday , I Saw Her Again , Words of Love (a terrific sleeper featuring Mama Cass), Dancing in the Street , the huge... Dedicated To The One I Love , Twelve Thirty , the dynamic Dream A Little Dream of Me , but also Mama Cass solo tracks including Make Your Own Kind Of Music ! All this and 22 pages of liner notes by Ed Osborne, some great photos and 53 tracks should keep you happy for a long while. Made during a time when the hippie movement was just beginning and the drug culture was an experimentation, a masterful compilation of singles by great writers and singers, John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty and Mama Cass Elliot.   If ...

I just received the newest release, Come and Get It , by Queen Delphine & The Crown Jewels and it's got style. Opening with My Cat Got Nine Lives , a cool shuffle track features Queen on lead vocal accompanied by Norman Hamilton on harp, Lester "Lammy" Johnson on bass, Steven Weakley on guitar and Keith Strong. With a polished strut, Queen lays down a good opener. On I'm A Woman , Lammy drives the track with a strong bass line and Delphine gives it a healthy vocal oomph backed by Ezra Bufford on keys. Very cool. What Would I Do has a light airy feel with Delphine's vocals floating on a bed of keys and light percussion. Strong radio style track. R&B track with pop styling and Gospel overtones, Kindness For Weakness , is springy and solid. Bufford adds a real nice key solo adding a cool edge. Wrapping the release is Lammy's Blues , an instrumental blues with a bit of funk. With a solid bass line from Lammy, Hamilton plays harp and lead guitar over a...

  FIVE ALLIGATOR ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR EIGHT BLUES BLAST MUSIC AWARDS Blues Blast, the internet blues magazine, has announced the nominees for its 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards. Five Alligator Records artists received a total of eight nominations. Shemekia Copeland, Curtis Salgado and Toronzo Cannon each received two nominations. Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials and Tommy Castro & The Painkillers each received one. Voting is free and open to the public at www.bluesblastmagazine.com beginning July 1 and running through August 15. Winners will be announced at the 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards ceremony, held at The Fluid Events Center in Champaign, Illinois on September 23rd, 2016. Alligator nominees are as follows: SHEMEKIA COPELAND : Contemporary Blues Album - for Outskirts Of Love Female Blues Artist CURTIS SALGADO: ...

Dex Romweber Announces Solo Album Carrboro , Out On September 9 *Track Premiere of "Trouble of the World" via American Songwriter *Album pre-order / new tour dates with J.D. Wilkes + Former Flat Duo Jets leader and rockabilly, garage legend Dex Romweber will release a new solo album Carrboro on Bloodshot Records on September 9 th . American Songwriter premiered the album’s lead single “Trouble of the World” – a song suggestive of Romweber’s earlier projects Flat Duo Jets and Dex Romweber Duo. Carrboro is now available for pre-order on CD/LP/digital formats: https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/carrboro On the new album, Dex assumes several musical mantles (and uncharacteristically plays all or many of the instruments). There’s the sparse and jumpy hillbilly liveliness of “Knock Knock (Who’s That Knockin’ On My Coffin Lid Door?)” with help from Rick Miller of Southern Culture On The Skids ; “Lonesome Train,” originally rec...

I just received the newest release, The Royal Gospel , from Royal Southern Brotherhood , and it's their best yet! Opening with Where's There's Smoke There's Fire , this band is hot. Tyrone Vaughan "smokes" the guitar strings with a vicious guitar solo and Norman Caesar's B3 ride is very effective. Darrell Phillips bass work, Bart Walker on guitar and Cyril Neville on percussion with Yonrico Scott on drums makes this a spectacular opener. I've Seen Enough To Know is a cool R&B style track with light funky guitar work and a great bass line. Blood Is Thicker Than Water has a super slinky, funky groove with reggae like vocals. An infectious percussion groove and slick guitar tips this one. A really cool track and one of my favorites on the release. R&B/gospel style, I Wonder Why really has a solid bass groove with nicely woven fabric of guitar , percussion, organ and vocals. Excellent! Cyril's fingerprints are on the writing of I'm Com...

Play Like Freddie King  with New Hal Leonard Publication   Play Like Freddie King by Dave Rubin $19.99 (US) Inventory #HL00122432 ISBN: 9781480355699   UPC: 884088952501 ...