The musical evolution of the Kansas duo Moreland & Arbuckle has been fascinating. What began
as a dedicated, raw, deep blues unit drenched in Mississippi Delta music has, over five previous offerings and hundreds of thousands of traveling miles, become ...
San Francisco blues guitar king Joe Louis Walker has been purveying his biting brand of
West Coast blues since the '60s, with time off for good behavior (literally -- he spent years going straight attending school and playing gospel). On ...
One of the more remarkable things about Jimbo Mathus' 2014 album Dark Night of the
Soul was that amid its careening, roughshod juxtaposition of roadhouse rock & roll and juke joint blues were songs that sought redemption amid the chaos. ...
This has 24 sides that King did for Federal in the early 1960s, all but
two of them from 1961 and 1962, and all but one released on singles. Half of this appears on Rhino's King retrospective Hide Away: The ...
Lightnin' Hopkins is the star of this live recording, made at an August 1961 concert
at the Ash Grove in Hollywood featuring Hopkins, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (with Big Joe Williams sitting in on three numbers). It isn't remotely ...
In 1977, Dangerhouse was one of the first independent labels to jump into the fray
and document the burgeoning West Coast punk rock scene, and all these years later their taste and judgment seem damn near faultless -- they released ...
Two songs into Every Day I Have the Blues, T-Bone Walker starts singing a slow-crawling
12-bar blues about Vietnam, a pretty good indication that this 1969 LP belongs to its era. That's not the only way this record evokes its ...
Here's the Man! contains recordings Bland cut for the Duke label in the early '60s.
It has the same intensity and variety of his late-'50s breakthrough album, Two Steps From the Blues, and mimics that album's program of big band-blues ...