Sunday, September 19, 2021

Joanne Shaw Taylor - The Blues Album

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Another month, another album of covers by an established artist. After the recent release of Bernie Marsden’s  Kings  I had a lively discuss...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town - A Blues Odyssey

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First of all, hats off to Tommy Castro for trying something a bit different.  “Concept album” isn’t a phrase one hears bandied about much in...
Friday, September 3, 2021

Samantha Fish - Faster

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Here she comes again, dancin’ ‘neath the starry skies.  Yep, it’s the moving target that is Samantha Fish. “You know, any time I feel like w...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Robert Jon & The Wreck - Shine A Light On Me Brother

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Robert Jon & The Wreck are not entirely what they seem.  The easy peg to hang them on may be Southern rock, but there’s more to them tha...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Quickies - Summer Singles from Sari Schorr, Dion, Elles Bailey and Davy Knowles

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Sari Schorr – ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (In The Pines)’   It’s taken me a few weeks to get round to this one, for which the more fool...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

No Stone Left Unturned - Revisiting the Stones' A Bigger Bang

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In tribute to the late Charlie Watts, this piece written in 2010 is reproduced from a previous blog of mine. In my last post I suggested tha...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Brian Setzer - Gotta Have The Rumble

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“Can’t be humble, got to have the rumble,” goes the basso profundo tag line for Brian Setzer’s latest album, in opening track ‘Checkered Fla...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

GA-20 - GA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor: Try It . . . You Might Like It

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Whooo-weee!  Itchy an’ scratchy!  Slippin’ an’ slidin’!  Buzzin’ with fuzz!  Movin’ an’ a-groovin’! In a nutshell, my friends, that is GA-20...