Tuesday, October 8, 2024

The Courettes - The Soul Of . . . The Fabulous Courettes

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Hey-ho, let’s go!  Where, you ask?  Back in time my friends, with the raucously retro sound of The Courettes, that’s where! Danish-Brazilian...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Ronnie Baker Brooks - Blues In My DNA

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Albums from Chicago bluesman Ronnie Baker Brooks don’t come along every year – his last release was 2017’s  Times Have Changed , and a hell ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

JD Simo and Luther Dickinson - Do The Rump!

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If your tastes are strictly of the blues-rock variety รก la Bonamassa or Kenny Wayne Shepherd, or maybe straight up Chicago blues, then I sug...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Dirt On My Diamonds Vol 2

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I can’t say I’m an assiduous follower of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, but the opening couple of tracks on  Dirt On My Diamonds Vol 2  certainly emu...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

The Cold Stares - The Southern

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According to the PR bumf, The Cold Stares’ singer and guitarist Chris Tapp reckoned that “When it came time to record this album, I thought ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour - Friendlytown

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Houston, I have a problem.  I don’t go a bundle on the vocals supplied by Roger C. Reale on Friendlytown .  No harm to the guy, this is pure...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Quickies - Scarlet Rebels, and Brave Rival

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Today’s Quickies round-up is a one-two of new generation hard rocking, with the second albums from Welsh band Scarlet Rebels and Portsmouth-...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Shemekia Copeland - Blame It On Eve

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Shemekia Copeland is the  grande dame  of soul and blues music.  I don’t mean that she’s some elder stateswoman – she’s only 45, after all. ...