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Northport N.Y. - M.C. Records is proud to announce that Eric Lindell's West County Drifter chalks up 14 adds: KAX E , KDN K, KFMU, KLCC, KNBA, KRVM, KSPN, KFIV, WHRV,WMVY, WSGE, WUSM, WUTC, & WYSO. We've also received airplay on North Country Radio, WWUH & WHRO. Thanks so much!!! More good news, the release debut this week at no. 21 on The New Music Weekly College Chart, http://www.newmusicweekly.com/chart.php?chart=College. Eric Lindell’s West County Drifter (MC-0067) marks the first release by the roots rocker for M.C. Reco rds and his first national release in over two years. Special guests include Delbert McClinton, Peter Joseph Burtt and Ivan Neville. Street date is this Tuesday August 30. www.ericlindell.com The double disc West County Drifter is chock full of all the elements that has made Eric a Roots Music star since his 2006 Alligator Records debut: great original songs, soulful guitar ...

The King Hat Review (KHR) is a multi-media stage musical extravaganza that tells the amazing story of American popular music and traces it's origins and history from where and when it all started: in the blues and folk-blues that emanated from porches, bayou docks and juke joints in the Deep South. With the help of a hand full of crazy pioneer DJs it spread all over the U.S. and the world, and has become the music we know and love today. Original American music, Blues, Rhythm & Blues, jazz, Rock & Roll & Hip Hop. The huge production consists of an amazing band, singers, dancers and video artists; as well as a multi-media production with giant projection screens, stunning sets, special stage effects and hot choreography, that all come together to take the audience on the historical journey of American popular music, the artists, their songs and the personal stories of how the DJs of each era discovered them and introduced them to the world. ...

I just received and have had the opportunity to listen to the new Bhakta Paul release, Death Cab Blues. The recordings are a combination of traditional and original blues tunes played solo with acoustic accompaniment. Paul does a nice job to adapt the songs to his personal style and deliver traditional songs without changing them beyond recognition. If you like the acoustic blues, you may like to check this out. Enjoy

I just got a copy of the new Twilite Broadcasters recording. It is a nice blend of tunes that I would associate more with bluegrass than blues. Most people don't realize how closely bluegrass (and real country) are to the blues... but relatives...not the same. I found the recording very well done and worth a listen if you can get your head around two part harmonies, acoustic mandolin and dreadnaught instead of stratocaster. Enjoy!

Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst, on June 12, 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced a rare level of commercial success both as a blues artist and a young musician.

Gospel singer Pearl Jackson hails from Poughkeepsie New York. She began singing as a child and she was a third generation member of The Church Of God In Christ. Her mother the late Evangelist Bessie Mae Brown encouraged Pearl to sing with the choir. Pearl Jackson went on to perform with many in the gospel arena. She worked with The Mid-Hudson Chapter of Gospel Music of America under the leadership of the late great the Rev. James Cleveland. Her first group was the Pearson singers and performed on stage with gospel legend Pastor Shirley Caesar in North Carolina. She also sang with the Supreme Tones of Quality for four years. Recently Pearl Jackson has decided to go on her own singing the music she loves. Her first CD " Sweet Is His Love" is testimony to this. She not only sings about God's love through song and praise but practices it any her everyday day life. She is truly a remarkable lady with a lot of talent. She just doesn't talk the talk. She walks the walk. ...

A born music lover from Albany, New York, Christine Santelli began singing, playing, writing and performing at a very young age. Her talents lead her to form her first professional band, the now defunct Christine & the Dickens, while still in her teens; then came the touring. Today, Christine has a growing legion of devoted fans who can't get enough of her seemingly endless on-stage energy, and her powerful vocal delivery. It is Christine Santelli's golden voice that has kept the twenty-years-worth of fans she has garnered coming back for more. The soulful, gritty, honest and emotive sounds that come out of this petite powerhouse when she sings are unique, moving and instantly familiar and appealing. From a career rooted in the blues, to a never ending artistic journey that explores roots music at its finest, such is the tale of Christine Santelli.

Holt caught rock ‘n’ roll fever when he was boy and his parents took him to his first concert: Elvis Presley. Today Presley’s trademark “TCB” with lightning bolt logo is tattooed on his right arm – a symbol of Holt’s fandom and work ethic. He also wears a tattoo of Jimi Hendrix. “When I was a teenager and discovered Hendrix, I’d never heard anybody play like that and I instantly knew what I wanted to do,” he recalls. “I begged my parents for a white Stratocaster and guitar lessons.” His first instrument was a cheaper electric, but with the help of a Hendrix savvy instructor Holt was on his way, developing the rudiments of his style. With Kudzu, you can hear echoes of Hendrix’s stinging vibrato and wah-soaked stringing booming through “Wicked Grip,” a dark-edged unadulterated rocker, and within the shimming chordal architecture of the album’s “The Fool.” Holt made his first step toward musical apprenticeship when his father took him to Chicago to hear bluesman Buddy Guy. “I had never...

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was a blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s James Cotton (born July 1, 1935, Tunica, Mississippi) is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter who has performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time as well as with his own band. Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click HERE

ANNAPOLIS , MD – Severn Records announces an October 18 release date for Evening , the latest album from multiple Grammy and Blues Music Award nominee Sugar Ray & the Bluetones. Evening is the band’s fifth album for Severn and first release since My Life, My Friends, My Music in 2007, which was nominated for Blues Music Awards as “Album of the Year,” “Instrumentalist – Harmonica,” “Instrumentalist – Bass Player” and “Song of the Year” (for “Last Words of a Fool”). Joining Sugar Ray Norcia (vocals, harmonica) are guitarist “Monster” Mike Welch, drummer Neil Gouvin, bassist Michael “Mudcat” Ward and pianist Anthony Geraci. “We approached this one like Hank Williams made records,” says Norcia about the sessions. “I went in with my lyrics, just rough sketches of the songs and the great musicians in the Bluetones, who always play something exciting. This album’s mostly original and in the Chicago blues vein. Last time, I used a full horn section, so My Life, My Friends, My Music was...