Blackberry Smoke announces new album... BLACKBERRY SMOKE MARKS 20 YEARS AS A BAND WITH THE RELEASE OF YOU HEAR GEORGIA OUT MAY 28. ALBUM PRODUCED BY DAVE COBB, FEAT. SPECIAL GUESTS JAMEY JOHNSON AND WARREN HAYNES ... Verder lezen

Tony Joe White’s Smoke from the Chimney, a nine-song album of never-before-heard songs by the storied singer-songwriter, is produced by Dan Auerbach and will be released by Easy Eye Sound on May 7. It’s introduced by the track “Boot Money”. Listen now ... Verder lezen

Fleetwood Mac 1980 live album reissued as six-disc super deluxe edition! 180-gram 2LP, 3CD plus 7-inch LP plus booklet! Superb live set now improved with more than an hour of unreleased music! ... Verder lezen

Provogue gaat een nieuw album uitbrengen met niet eerder uitgebracht materiaal van de iconische bluesrockmeester Gary Moore. How Blue Can You Get wordt op 30 april uitgebracht ... Verder lezen

World-renowned blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Chris Cain will release his Alligator Records debut album, Raisin' Cain, on Friday, April 9, 2021. The album features 12 originals, each showcasing Cain's fiery musicianship and deft, memorable songwriting skills. According to Cain, who recently received two Blues Music Award nominations (for Contemporary Blues Male Artist Of The Year and Best Guitarist), "These are the best pack of tunes I've ever written." ... Verder lezen

“Blues in Mono” is a timeless tribute to traditional, acoustic country blues recorded with a microphone from the 1940s, with Seasick Steve performing the songs solo, direct to an old tape machine. Steve has curated a selection of songs to cover, from his favourite artists such as Willie Dixon, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Charlie Patton and Mississippi Fred McDowell. The album also features 4 new Seasick Steve tracks ... Verder lezen

Renowned for their rousing and mesmerizing live performances, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND is preparing to officially release another historic show via the Allman Brothers Band Recording Company label. Recorded on September 28, 1971 at the Austin Municipal Auditorium in Austin, TX, Down In Texas ’71 will be available through an exclusive pre-sale at www.merchmountain.com, and beginning March 26 (the band’s formation anniversary) at The Big House Museum gift shop and online store, and as a digital release ... Verder lezen

Solitaire is Kamp’s 13th full album release. It consists of 14 songs recorded mostly alone at home during the last 9 months of the lockdown. Seeking Comfort In Soulful New Music During These Hard Times ... Verder lezen

Slim Harpo's swamp blues stylings earned him almost instantaneous success, his first single quickly becoming a blues standard and later a British Invasion darling. Originally released on Nashville's Excello Records, Slim's '66 LP is full of his signature harmonica and nasal tenor, its double entendre-laced title track being the most successful of his short career. Influential to a wide array of artists (Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Flamin' Groovies, and many others have covered Slim's songs), Baby Scratch My Back gets its long overdue first reissue! ... Verder lezen

Sven Hammond staat sinds de oprichting in 2006 bekend om rock, soul en blues: stijlen die altijd vertrouwd klinken, maar nooit vervelen. De band heeft in de afgelopen twee jaar veel tijd in de studio doorgebracht, waar Sphere het resultaat van is ... Verder lezen

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band are the greatest front-porch blues band in the world. They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier finger picker playing today. This following is sure to eat up the band's latest offering, Dance Songs For Hard Times, a country blues record that was made the right way — two feet on the ground and both hands getting dirty ... Verder lezen

Meestal speelt Robbert Duijf als solo-artiest, maar deze keer niet. Deze keer wilde hij iets anders proberen. Dus begin 2020 stapte hij de Husky Studio binnen. Als kleine jongen droomde hij er al van om een LP te maken, zo’n magische zwarte schijf. Maar de wereld vertraagde en we eindigden in een lockdown. Dit gaf hem wat extra tijd, tijd om nog eens na te denken. Zijn gedachten werden steeds duidelijker en beslissingen werden genomen. “Stick to the plan, that’s what the old man said!” Uiteindelijk viel alles op zijn plek. Dit zou niet alleen een soloalbum worden, maar hij had ook de eer om met een aantal getalenteerde muzikanten samen te werken. Het plezier dat ze hadden deed hem beseffen, dat muziek maken hem het gevoel geeft echt te leven. Dus hier is het album. Geniet! ... Verder lezen

57 Tracks - 20 Never before on CD / 12 Previously unreleased performances. Remastered from Analog tapes. Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins career was both long and fruitful. He performed live for six decades and recorded for over 30 years amassing a catalogue that was larger than almost any of his contemporaries ... Verder lezen

The self-titled, full-length debut from Bones Owens is a selection of songs both gloriously gritty and undeniably euphoric. In a bold departure from the moody Americana of his acclaimed EPs Hurt No One and Make Me No King, the Missouri-bred musician’s first release with Thirty Tigers delivers a powerful sound deeply inspired by ’60s garage-rock, Hill Country blues, and the swampy roots-rock of bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival (“the first record I remember stealing from my dad when I was ten and just starting to play guitar,” according to Owens). A potent showcase for his formidable guitar work—a talent he’s displayed in performing with artists as eclectic as Yelawolf and Mikky Ekko— Bones Owens arrives as a full-tilt expression of Owens’ wildest impulses, all swinging rhythms, and swaggering riffs ... Verder lezen

Three very different UK music legends: Robin Trower, Maxi Priest and Livingstone Brown, have come together to create the United State of Mind, and their self-titled album is released on Manhaton Records on CD and Vinyl on 5 March 2021 ... Verder lezen

For fans of Ace Records’ popular Songwriters series, 2021 looks like being a particularly good year. Ace kicked off in January with a compilation of songs from the pen of Kris Kristofferson, and keep the ball rolling this month with a volume spotlighting the work of Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Leon Russell. The collection comprises almost entirely songs from the period 1966 to 1979 and is packaged with a booklet featuring a 6,500-word essay by Kris Needs ... Verder lezen

The New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers return with Volume 2 from the famous sessions! Charlie Musselwhite, Jimbo Mathus, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jim Dickinson, Luther Dickinson, Cody Dickinson are the "New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers". This album crosses the generations of new Blues-Rockers and Classic Blues Statesmen ... Verder lezen

Recorded across two nights in August 2020 in Groesbeek, The Netherlands we are pleased to announce “Acoustic Duo Live”. Featuring internationally lauded, award-winning blues, rock & soul guitarist, singer and songwriter Ben Poole alongside rapidly rising, award-winning, dutch guitar sensation Guy Smeets. ‘Acoustic Duo Live’ showcases the dynamic duos captivating guitar playing and vocals, as well as displaying their charisma, charm and the playful rapport between one another and their audience ... Verder lezen

Award-winning, revered singer / songwriter Lucinda Williams is working to help independent music venues during this time with the announcement of Lu’s Jukebox. Scheduled as a six- episode series of mostly full-band, HD video performances in-studio, Lu’s Jukebox features a themed set of songs by other artists curated by the multi-Grammy award winner. The first episode kicks off with Running Down A Dream: A Tribute To Tom Petty, featuring songs from his celebrated career ... Verder lezen

Guitar legend STEVE CROPPER announces ‘Fire It Up’. New album from the legendary Stax guitarist - out on April 23, 2021 ... Verder lezen

New Release: Bjorn Berge – Heavy Gauge (CD/LP, Blue Mood, 19 March 2021). “Heavy Gauge” is het resultaat en bevat de bekende ingredienten; ‘exquisite guitar playing, ballads, groove, blues and a lot of good time music’. Zoals altijd met de veelzijdige Bjorn ‘virtuoso of the twelve-string guitar’ Berge heeft ‘the blues no limits’ en worden ook genres als folk, jazz, pop en rock er lekker pakkend doorheen gehusseld ... Verder lezen

Valerie June will release her first new album in four years The Moon & Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers on March 12th, 2021 via Fantasy Records. The new album is sweeping and ambitious with earthy R&B production and a touch of psychedelia amidst its astral folk-pop orchestration, the pair arrived at a sound that is elegant and endlessly surprising ... Verder lezen

Smith/Kotzen, the duo of Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith and Winery Dogs guitarist Richie Kotzen, will release their self-titled debut LP on March 26. Exploding with powerful melodies & harmonies, the album embodies the spirited attitude of 70’s classic rock with a melting-pot of influences ranging from blues, hard rock, traditional R&B and more, blending the pair’s backgrounds and life experiences to result in a thoroughly contemporary sound ... Verder lezen

Singer-songwriter Harry van Lier brengt nieuw album uit. Het is zijn zoektocht naar de country blues. Voor dit album werd hij voornamelijk geïnspireerd door zijn twee roadtrips naar de Mississippi Delta en in het bijzonder zijn ontmoeting met Pat Thomas ... Verder lezen

New album release from Popa Chubby: Tinfoil Hat (Dixie Frog, 5 March 2021) ... Verder lezen

These are the recordings from that first & final tour of 2020 a.k.a Fab Four Feb Tour. New arrangements and full band performances of songs from the past four Daniel Norgren releases (Buck, Alabursy, The Green Stone, Wooh Dang) ... Verder lezen

Chicago-based slide guitar virtuoso and singer-songwriter, Joanna Connor, who is best known as one of the reigning Queens of blues rock guitar, releases her 14th album ‘4801 South Indiana Avenue’ on Joe Bonamassa’s new independent blues record label Keeping The Blues Alive on 26th February 2021. Joanna Connor premieres music video "I Feel So Good". Listen & watch now! ... Verder lezen

New Release: Ally Venable - Heart of Fire (Ruf Records, 26 February 2021) - featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Devon Allman & Cody Dickinson. Now, with Venable's fanbase snaking further around the block every time she blows into town, Texas roots icon Mike Zito has no doubts, "Ally is the future of blues and the crossover music of American roots-rock." ... Verder lezen

Release news: Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys - Elmore James for President (Continental Blue Heaven, 26 February 2021). Elmore James (1918-1963) was an American musician that had popularity, deep soul and an energy that makes his music sound fresh today. JMMB’s 13 song new recording keeps that American spirit alive. Powerful, heavy & bluesy! ... Verder lezen

Never underestimate the power of a woman with her back to the wall. In March 2020, as Covid blew across the planet, the shutters came down on live venues and recording studios, and the music scene fell suddenly silent, Ghalia Volt faced the same dilemma as every other artist. What now? The answer was One Woman Band ... Verder lezen