Bman's Blues Report

I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Originals , by The Togs , a pair of musicians from France. Togs is Peter Callate on lead vocal and guitar and Stag Augagmeur on rhythm guitar. Opening with Migrant's Song , Callate leads off with clean acoustic guitar accompaniment  and his own unique voice. Following a basic folk blues format he and Augagneur really set a clean pace. On Someday , addition of piano adds dimensionality and clever additional guitar fingering shows solid instrumentation. With it's quick pace, Hold Me Tight is one of my favorites on the release. It has solid vocals and clear, almost Jimmy Page like acoustic guitar strumming. Second Chance has a particularly strong melody and composition with emotional vocals by Callate almost bringing to mind one of my favorite contemporary singers, Frank Black. Wrapping the release is Lonely Hearts with a strong acoustic punky rock feel and an interesting electric guitar solo. This is a solid cl...

I just received the newest release, Lead Belly's Gold , from Eric Bibb & JJ Milteau and it's pure gold! This release, composed mostly of traditional and Lead Belly originals is spiced with a few originals by Bibb and Milteau. Opening with Grey Goose , Bibb handles vocals with only basic percussion by Larry Crockett, his own guitar accompaniment and Milteau on harp. With a light hearted approach the song seems to float. A medley of When That Train Comes Along/ Swing Low Sweet Chariot features some of the best vocal work that I have heard from Bibb. Soft, heartfelt and sensuous, backed by expressive harp work from Milteau. Very nice. On A Monday has a really nice gait. With it's playful nature, Michael Robinson.s backing vocals and Cajun flare it almost seems a celebration of a prison song. The House Of The Rising Sun has an eerie serenity that I have never heard from this track. Bibb's rich vocals and Milteau's melodic harp work seem the perfect match for ...

Lazy Buddies set up in 2005, they play their blues-swing dyed in West Coast and 50's rock'n roll. They regularly perform at clubs and festivals such as Cognac Blues Passions, Blues Sur Seine, Europa Jazz, etc., with a few nice openings including Mark Hummel, "Little" Charlie Baty and Sugar Ray Rayford (Mannish Boys) ! Their This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' album (2011) and Play It Loud ! live album (2012) gained several fine reviews by the Soulbag, Blues Magazine, BCR la Revue, Blues & Co magazines and a selection by the french blues radio broadcasts.   If you support live Blues acts, up and coming Blues talents and want to learn more about Blues news and Fathers of the Blues, -  ”LIKE” ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorite band!

French bassist Igor Lallai plays one of the backing tracks from one of my favorite shows... Dexter.   If you support live Blues acts, up and coming Blues talents and want to learn more about Blues news and Fathers of the Blues, -  ”LIKE” ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorite band!

The Communal Well is: Jules Berube, Drums Guy Cunis, Lead & Rhythm Guitars Greg Kinsey, Harmonica, Vocals Mark Heim, Trumpet, Cornet & Vocals Sylvain Herrera, Bass Roger Hoeberichts, Vocals & Guitars And Casey Obrien, Percussion Andrew Peterson, Vocals, Percussion, Production & Engineering   If you support live Blues acts, up and coming Blues talents and want to learn more about Blues news and Fathers of the Blues, -  ”LIKE” ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorite band!

French metal rockers Karelia are set to release a new album in the UK with "Golden Decadence" on 15th April 2013 through Rocksector Records . Karelia was formed with a deep will to play popular, multi-layered metal, staying free from cliché and genre-typical settings. Following the release of their self-produced demo and shows with acts such as Kamelot, Karelia signed in 2003 with Drakkar/Sony-BMG and released two albums, "Usual Tragedy" (2004) and "Raise" (2005). Across these albums the music was opulent with driving drum parts, progressive rhythms and hard-as-nails guitar riffs, all blended with anthemic choir parts, imposing string arrangements and more than a hint of references to classical composers. Early success was evident, especially in Japan where Burn magazine ranked "Usual Tragedy" 4th in its' metal charts. Germany, Russia and Brazil also embraced the band. After a hiatus, a musical re-direct...

Fred Chapellier voit le jour en 1966 à Metz, (France). Plongé dans le rock et le blues dès le plus jeune âge grâce à ses frères ainés, c'est vers 1978 qu'il décide d'apprendre la batterie, instrument qui l'attire particulièrement. Après 3 ans de pratique, un beau jour de 1981, rendant visite à un ami, il s'essaye à la guitare...Eureka...C'est la révélation. Il troque immédiatement sa batterie contre une copie Gibson. Une histoire commence, la guitare ne le quittera plus jamais. Fort d'un très bon bagage rythmique, Fred travaille plusieurs heures par jour pendant plus de dix ans. Il s'essaye à divers styles musicaux mais revient toujours à ce qu'il appelle la base :"Le Blues".! C'est au début des années '90 qu'il forme son premier blues band "Kashmir" avec lequel il tournera 4 ans. Puis viennent les années "Men in Blue", groupe dans lequel Fred partage le chant et la guitare avec un certain "Big Joe ...

Bernard SELLAM : vocals, guitars Joël FERRON : bass Olivier TREBEL : drums Stéphane BERTOLINO : harmonica With 8 albums and 18 years' experience behind them, Awek have acquired a strength and maturity worthy of their peers on the other side of the Atlantic. Their musical style is an explosive cocktail, mingling classicism and originality. In addition to performing across Europe, Awek has also performed in many venues in North America, including the infamous Antone’s in Austin, Texas and the Montreal Jazz Festival. Awek was honored as a finalist at the 2008 International Blues Challenge and in 2011 Stephane Bertolino won the prize for best harmonica player. In 2009, Awek was elected band of the year by Cognac Blues festival, and opened for BB KING. Following recordings in Austin and awards in Memphis, Awek's American adventure continued further west to Greaseland Studios in San Jose, California, where the band recorded their 8th CD, "Rich & Famous"in Novem...

Philip JARRY is a french composer/producer & singer performing on guitar, piano, keyboards harmonica & trumpet.. Self-taught, he's inspired by the most creative blues funk soul & jazz performers on this planet. He specializes in improvisation & singing in unison with guitar & piano solos. He is recognized as the one of the rare and most talentued musicians in this field. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you support live Blues acts, up and coming Blues talents and want to learn more about Blues news and Fathers of the Blues, -  ”LIKE” ...

Djeliba Productions met son savoir au service des artistes et des organisateurs. Notre structure est à taille humaine et en plein développement. Nous travaillons avec des artistes de renommée nationale et internationale mais aussi avec de jeunes talents. Nous les accompagnons dans leurs processus de création, l'organisation de tournées, la promotion... Notre équipe conseille en organisation et communication toute structure à vocation culturelle. Djeliba Productions agit dans le domaine du spectacle avec dans son catalogue un morceau d'Afrique, le Blues de Chicago ou encore de la Pop Rock. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

Nina started as a dancer, even sung Opera and is performing on stage since she's 14th She was born in France and partly raised in the USA She chose to settle in Texas and after a quick time among country singers. Nina goes on tour across the USA where she became one with the landscapes and people she met. She appears in some Charity Concerts for the FARM AID, already concerned by Globalisation…. The Tour brings her to New Orleans where she finds a new passion : BLUES… Finally not so far from the Gypsy songs where she can also express pain, love and joy…Nina understands that very quickly… she dives into her memory and get loose with her voice like a Janis Joplin to whom she is often compared… NINA sings more and more, BETTE MIDLER, CHUCK BERRY or ERIC BURDON among others ask her to play as a supporting act as they appreciate the true « Rock Energy » and her true feelings on stage. Since then she is currently touring in the best Jazz and Blues Festival all around tha world : Europ...

These distinguished gentlemen have a problem: The can never agree whether to drink their way through the liquour cabinet from right to left...or vice versa. In between drinking and eying young ladies the way only the French can, STINKY LOU, THE GOON MAT and LORD BERNARDO are the fiercest Boogie 'n' Roots natural catastrophe going on the European continent. These bois don't open a show and ease into a set, the set the g'damn house on fire the moment they hit the first chord and yell: "Do you want to boogie?" I advise each and everyone of ye to respond: "Hell yeah!" What follows are 90 minutes of adrenaline and alcohol fused primal BOOGIE mayhem. THE GOON MAT is hip to the hypnotic drone that is remiscent of a Junior Kimbrough, STINKY LOU plays the washtub base not unlike a man whose hair is on fire...and LORD BERNARDO...that boi has lost his mind and plays the most demented and groovin' harp I've heard in years. Now all the hip blues punk kids...

Nico Backton is very pleased to present the 'Wizards of Blues' for a musical journey from Memphis to Chricago, crossing the shores of the Yazoo River... "Nico Backton & Wizards of Blues" cross the United States from down South up to the cold North, from dusty cottonfields to the screaming streets of Chicago meeting either the most famous, either unknown Blues-artists or songs from the 30's, 40's, 50's... Nico Backton & Wizards of Blues is considered by specialized critics and press as one of the best acoustic Blues bands on the French Scene. They played on most of the biggest french Blues-Festivals all over France, like Blues sur Seine, Blues en V.O., Les Rendez-vous de l'Erdre, Europa Blues Night, Europa Jazz Festival Blues Tour, Jazz sous les Pommiers, Blues en Loire, Andernos Jazz and many more, shared the main scene at the Cahors Blues Festival 2009 with the "Chicago Blues Living History-tour", played some major european festivals...

Ce combo, fondé en juillet 2008, se compose de musiciens aguerris. Ils écument les scènes française et européennes depuis 15 ans. Sur la route du blues, ils ont partagé l’affiche avec Bill PERRY, Tommy CASTRO, Loonie BROOKS, Junior WATSON, John PRIMER, MAGIC SLIM, Louisianna Red, Sean COSTELLO et tant d’autres… Habitués des festivals, ils se sont forgés une expérience solide. Ils assurent en 2010 la première partie du concert donné par JOHNNY WINTER pendant les ‘nuits du blues’ d’Abbeville, et la première partie de JUNIOR WATSON au Bay Car Blues festival de 2010 Norman ROSAIA (chant, guitare, harmonica), Thomas HIRSCH (guitare), Stephane Bihan (contrebasse, basse) et Alain Augustyniak (batterie) vous proposent un voyage du côté de la West coast des années 40’ / 50’ jusqu’au bas-fond de Chicago. Fortement influencés par T-Bone Walker, Magic Sam, Eddie Jones, Bobby Blue Bland, Hollywood Fats, Muddy Waters et les artistes CHESS, ce gang vous fera vibrer et danser jusqu’au bout de la nuit....

Hello mon nom est Little Peter je suis guitariste de Blues et j'ai un groupe " LITTLE PETER BLUES BAND ",nous sommes de Toulouse France! Batterie: Stephane Piquemal Basse: Pascal Briez Harmonica: Vaudou Guitare/Chant: Pierre Cayla If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

Listening to one of Sonny Terry’s albums touched Jean-Jacques Milteau to the core, although he did confess, “I’d already heard a bit of harmonica...”. So we can just imagine this young Parisian born in 1950 and living in the 13th arrondissement, not far from the Porte d’Italie, and how his childhood and youth must have been lulled by one of the chromatic instruments of someone like Albert Raisner. The latter, once past the golden age of his second trio (i.e. 1947 – 1953) had now become a radio and TV star, and had been broadcasting bravura pieces such as Le Canari since 1959. Or maybe Milteau, like most of his fellow-countrymen, didn’t even know Jean Wetzel’s name but been nourished, perhaps even to excess, on his mouth organ – Jean was that enigmatic performer (1954) of Jean Wiener’s theme specially composed for the film Touchez Pas Au Grisbi. Here indeed was stuff to render the ears of a young man more sensitive, forge them even, but from there to inspiring a true vocation, there’s...

WILLKOMMEN---BIENVENUE---WELCOME: Professioneller Gitarrist/Singer-Songwriter/Produzent und Sachbuchautor aus der Schweiz. Erfahren Sie alles über seine Biografie, Konzerte, News usw. auf: www.richardkoechli.ch ............... Guitariste/Chanteur/Compositeur/Producteur professionel d'origine Suisse. Vous trouvez toutes les infos sur sa biographie, ses concerts et ses nouvelles sur: www.richardkoechli.ch .................. Professional Guitarist/Singer-Songwriter and producer from Switzerland. You'll find all about his bio, concerts and news on: www.richardkoechli.ch If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

I'm Illona Bolou from France,I'm 16 years old and I was born in February 1996. I started learning fingerstyle guitar in 2009 after I have seen Sungha Jung's videos. I taught myself. I would like to become a professional fingerstyle guitarist. If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! -  ”LIKE”

Rachelle Plas, a Girl, her Harmonica and its Voice. AWARDS on 2010: GRAND PRIX CAHORS BLUES FESTIVAL PRICE BLUES ON SEINE TOWER 2010: Festival Country QUATREMARE COW OF BLUES CAHORS BLUES FESTIVAL COGNAC BLUES PASSIONS NHL FESTIVAL - BRISTOL BOARD (UK) BLUES ON SEINE If you like what I’m doing, Like ---Bman’s Blues Report--- Facebook Page! I’m looking for great talent and trying to grow the audience for your favorites band! - ”LIKE”

.On ne présente plus Jack Bon, leader du groupe Ganafoul, power trio qui entre dans la légende du rock français avec 6 Albums boogie-rock dans les années 80. Il poursuit son aventure en solo, il est reconnu et apprécié pour ses concerts et ses enregistrements. Il totalise 12 albums dont les derniers "Mixed Blues" et "Live and Acoustic". Le voici en duo avec Eric Delbouys, batteur et percussionniste, compositeur et arrangeur. Ce fan de John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) développe sa personnalité musicale dans diverses expériences auprès d'artistes comme : Bernard Lubat, Bernardo Sandoval et plus rock comme Han Burs (The EX). Son voyage initiatique dans les musiques du monde et son goût pour le mouvement électro le dirige vers de nouveaux mélanges entre acoustique et électronique. Jack Bon et Eric Delbouys collaborent depuis plus de 10 ans à divers projets scéniques et discographiques. Le fruit de cette rencontre explose dans Electric Duo, leur expérience se vit au traver...