I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Stone Cold , from Russ Green , and it's a driving blues rocker. Opening with Lint Redux , you are immediately in the middle of a swampy blues with modern effects. With a firm foot stomp by Felix Pollard on drums and Vic Jackson on bass Russ Green on harmonica and vocals really has the earthy feel. Giles Corey on slide gives the track great grease and Green's harp work is strong. Excellent opener. 12 Feet of Water opens with a terrific harmonica aria before grinding into a super drum driven romp. With the feel that I can only describe as Hill Country , Green delivers such soulful vocals, comforted by Joe Monroe on keys, this track just grabs you. Green's harmonica is like a shuddering wind blowing through you with the thumping bass of Vic Jackson and Vince Agwada on guitar. Excellent! Easy going shuffle, Nobody Knows has a smooth, supple melody with backing acoustic guitar, minimal drum work and melodic ha...
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I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Hell Hound: The Lost 1971 CBS Album, by Duffy Power & Argent and it's a great taste of early British blues rock along the lines of Faces, Mad Dogs and King Biscuit Boy (yeah I know he's Canadian). Opening with a rocking version of Robert Johnson's Hell Hound On My Trail featuring Duffy on lead backed by Argent (Rod Argent's band) and Ollie Halsall. Super opener. Leon Russel's Hummingbird, is a great entry to the set with super Russell like piano and organ work, Duffy on vocal and just a bit more rocking rhythm. The backing vocals really add nicely to this classic track. Original R&B track, Love's Prescription, has a great rocking beat and warm backing vocals with perfect piano work by Argent. Taj Mahal and Jesse Ed Davis wrote Corrina, covered here and I've always liked this track. Power's vocals are particularly soulful, accompanied by Argent on electric piano and the King Biscuit Boy like harmonica work makes this one of my favorites on the release. Disc 2 of this 2 cd set has an interesting cover of Motherless Children with a stripped down more folksy version of the well covered track. A cool guitar solo by Sam Mitchell and Power's soft soulful vocals really remakes the track. Rocking cover of Led Belly's Roberta really digs in. Power doing almost a soul shout and the Argent band get the house rocking with super harmonica work. Elmore James', The Sky Is Crying, is one of the more original blues tracks on the release. Power's vocals and harmonica work, with slick guitar riffs by Halsall make this a real gem. Power does a cool acoustic cover of Kokomo Arnold's Milk Cow Blues with vocal, harmonica and guitar. Straight up blues rocker hits square on. A second take on The Sky Is Crying is a great slow blues with hot harmonica work by Power. Halsall digs in on lead and Mitchell on slide adding nicely to a really super cover of a super song. Wrapping the release is a string composition of Love Is Shelter wrapping the release in an unusually dignified fashion.
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Lucille Bogan (April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948) was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson . The sexologist and music critic, Ernest Borneman , stated that Bogan along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith , was in "the big three of the blues". She was born Lucille Anderson in Amory, Mississippi , United States, and raised in Birmingham, Alabama . In 1916, she married Nazareth Lee Bogan , a railwayman, and gave birth to a son. She first recorded vaudeville songs for Okeh Records in New York in 1923, with pianist Henry Callens . Later that year she recorded " Pawn Shop Blues " in Atlanta, Georgia , which was the first time a black blues singer had been recorded outside New York or Chicago. In 1927 she began recording for Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin , where she recorded her first big success, " Sweet Petunia ", which was covered by Blind Blake . She also recorded for Brunswick...
Charles LoBue was one of the fathers of the custom electric guitar business. Charles came to the industry after taking classes from Michael Gurian, first working in and around the guitar repair business in NYC in the mid 60's. Charles' interest in the business began by doing basic repairs on factory made guitars. These were primarily made by Gibson and Fender, the "Gold Standard" for electric guitars, as well as any guitar including acoustics which came through the door. As a professional player in the U.S. in the 60's, Gibson and Fender were the most likely choices if you wanted an electric guitar. It is well known that the Brits used European made guitars as well, primarily due to their accessibility. By the mid late 60's both companies had been sold to larger corporations which were not primarily in the guitar business. The basic perception even today is that the guitars made by these companies during this period were inferior in quality and also l...
It is with great sadness to report that J. Blackfoot (born John Colbert , November 20, 1946) died today, November 30, 2011 at Methodist Germantown Hospital near Memphis, TN. We will keep you abreast of service information as we receive it. J. Blackfoot will truly be missed. “Like” Bman’s Facebook page (available in over 50 languages). I will not relay senseless nonsense. In this way I can get out the word on new talent, venues and blues happenings! - click Here
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