Bryce Dessner is a guitarist with the alternative rock and Americana band the National, and
this album with the Kronos Quartet appears not on its longtime label home of Nonesuch but on the rock-oriented ANTI imprint. The sound, from the ...
This album's color cover photo is an action shot, showing Magic Sam in the process
of choking and bending his strings, a good hike up the fretboard. It isn't clear exactly what he is playing from the picture, although that ...
One could definitely argue that this 16-track album doesn't in fact contain the best of
Muddy Waters since it lacks any of his template-setting and explosive 1950s sides from Chess Records, being compiled instead from Waters' late-'70s and early-'80s output ...
Alligator Records shows a different side of its house-rocking face on this 13-cut collection of
acoustic blues. While Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Bukka White don't appear here, other performers -- some of whom one normally associates with overdriven electricity ...
The eldest son of British blues legend John Mayall, sometimes Trojans vocalist Gaz Mayall launched
his weekly DJ showcase Gaz's Rockin' Blues in July 1980. A quarter century later, his Thursday night residency celebrating vintage R&B remains a staple of ...
This 25-track collection brings together some of the most inspiring blues harp performances on record.
With the exception of John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson's Bring Me Another Half a Pint (what's better known as Jimmy Rogers' Sloppy Drunk and originally ...
The sensual, sultry vocals, heavy backbeat, and undertow rhythm of Slim Harpo's first hit, I'm
a King Bee, virtually defined the swamp blues and swamp pop that influenced musicians like Clifton Chenier, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks. This 24-track ...
The sophomore slump hit Urban Dance Squad rather hard, or maybe it just seemed that
way based on the consistently high quality of their debut. Life 'n Perspectives of a Genuine Crossover sounds aimless where its predecessor came off as ...