Bman's Blues Report

I just had the opportunity to review Memphis Rent Party , the soundtrack to Robert Gordon 's 6th book, and it's excellent. Opening with a ragged but remarkable rendition of Guy Clark's Desparados Waiting On A Train by Jerry McGill. Backed by Mud Boy and the Neutrons, this is subtly terrific with excellent piano and slide work under McGill's haunting vocals.  On Chevrolet Luther Dickinson and Sharde Thomas exchanging lead vocals and playing fife vs slide backed by snappy marching like snare drums and powerful bass drums strokes.  Junior Kimbrough is up next with his trademark sound on All Night Long , recorded in Kimbrough's living room in the middle of a cotton field in 1986. Very cool. Another unmistakable sound is the sound of Furry Lewis' vocals with his own slide guitar on Why Don't You Come Home Blues , recorded in his living room in the 60's. How does it get any better than this? The surprise track for me was Calvin Newborn on Frame for the B...

Our $10 Holiday Sale is still going on, so go finish your shopping on our website . Make sure to get your orders in now to receive them by Christmas! Not sure what to get? Check out some of this year's releases and a few classics below.   Iggy and the Stooges - Ready to Die   Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse   Yuck - Glow & Behold   Frankie Rose - Herein Wild   Any of our Al Green albums will make a great gift for music lovers. Find them here .   The Black Keys - Rubber Factory     Junior Kimbrough - You Better Run   R.L. Burnside - Come On In

Melody's Echo Chamber In Stores Now Melody's Echo Chamber : Melody's Echo Chamber CD/LP/Digital CD: $13 LP: $14 Mp3 Album: $8.99 iTunes Amazon Insound ON TOUR NOW: 09-26 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock * 09-27 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall * 09-28 St. Louis, MO - The Firebird * 09-29 Columbus, OH - A&R Bar * 09-30 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick  * 10-02 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre * 10-04 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer * 10-05 New York, NY - Webster Hall  * 10-06 Washington DC - Black Cat * 10-07 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club * 10-08 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre * 10-11 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern * 10-12 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's 365 Club * *  with The Raveonettes SAN CISCO US DEBUT OCTOBER 23 In a year of viral mega-hits from Down Under, a group of four youthful musical friends have reached the upper echelons of the Australian pop charts with an intoxicating ear-worm of a song called "Awkward".  San Cisco,...

Charles Arthur "Charlie" Feathers (June 12, 1932 – August 29, 1998) was an influential American rockabilly and country music performer. Feathers was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and recorded a string of popular singles like "Peepin' Eyes," "Defrost Your Heart," "Tongue-Tied Jill," and "Bottle to the Baby" on Sun Records, Meteor and King Records in the 1950s. Feathers was known for being a master of shifting emotional and sonic dynamics in his songs. His theatrical, hiccup-styled, energetic, rockabilly vocal style inspired a later generation of rock vocalists, including Lux Interior of The Cramps. He studied and recorded several songs with Junior Kimbrough, whom he called "the beginning and end of all music". His childhood influences were reflected in his later music of the 1970s and 1980s, which had an easy-paced, sometimes sinister, country-blues tempo, as opposed to the frenetic fast-paced style favored by some of...

David "Junior" Kimbrough (July 28, 1930 — January 17, 1998) was an American blues musician. His best known work included "Keep Your Hands Off Her" and "All Night Long". Music journalist Tony Russell stated "his raw, repetitive style suggests an archaic forebear of John Lee Hooker, a character his music shares with that of fellow North Mississippian R. L. Burnside" Junior Kimbrough was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi, United States, and lived in the North Mississippi Hill Country near Holly Springs. He recorded for the Fat Possum Records label. He was a long-time associate of labelmate R. L. Burnside, and the Burnside and Kimbrough families often collaborated on musical projects. This relationship continues today. Rockabilly musician and friend Charlie Feathers called Kimbrough "the beginning and end of all music." This is written on Kimbrough's tombstone outside his family's church, the Kimbrough Family Church, in Holly Springs...

This superb documentary vividly illustrates the enduring vitality of country blues, an idiom that most mainstream music fans had presumed dead or, at best, preserved through more scholarly tributes when filmmaker Robert Mugge and veteran blues and rock writer Robert Palmer embarked on their 1990 odyssey into Mississippi delta country. What Arkansas native and former Memphis stalwart Palmer knew, and Mugge captured on film, was that the blues was not only alive but still intimately woven into the daily lives of rural blacks. Palmer, a former rock musician and Memphis Blues Festival cofounder best known for his bylines in The New York Times and Rolling Stone, had already chronicled the saga of Southern blues in his seminal book that provides the film's title. He's an astute guide, and Mugge underlines this role by pairing him with British rocker Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), whose avid interest in the music makes him an effective foil. The film's real triumph, however, rests in ...

You See Me Laughin' is a personal journey into the lives and music of the last of the hill country bluesmen who've kept their music alive on the back porches and in the tiny juke joints of the Mississippi backwoods. Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click HERE

You See Me Laughin' is a personal journey into the lives and music of the last of the hill country bluesmen who've kept their music alive on the back porches and in the tiny juke joints of the Mississippi backwoods. Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click HERE

David "Junior" Kimbrough (July 28, 1930 — January 17, 1998) was an American blues musician from North Mississippi. His best known work included "Keep Your Hands Off Her" and "All Night Long". Music journalist Tony Russell stated "his raw, repetitive style suggests an archaic forebear of John Lee Hooker, a character his music shares with that of fellow North Mississippian R. L. Burnside". Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click HERE

You See Me Laughin' is a personal journey into the lives and music of the last of the hill country bluesmen who've kept their music alive on the back porches and in the tiny juke joints of the Mississippi backwoods. Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click HERE

You See Me Laughin' is a personal journey into the lives and music of the last of the hill country bluesmen who've kept their music alive on the back porches and in the tiny juke joints of the Mississippi backwoods. Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click HERE