Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Ten Top Tracks from . . . The Black Keys

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Welcome to the first outing of a new Blues Enthused feature.  Note the wording in the title though.  This ain't no ‘Top 10’, ‘Best Of’, ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Quickies - Evan Nicole Bell, Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages, Harpo Walker

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Evan Nicole Bell – Runaway Girl EP Twitter-using blues listeners may be familiar with the name Evan Nicole Bell.  She’s the young thing from...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Gimme 5 - Mississippi bluesman Robert Connely Farr is our latest musical travel guide

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Born in Bolton, Mississippi, and now resident in Vancouver, Robert Connely Farr's ass may be in Canada, but his heart remains in the Sou...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Emanuel Casablanca - Strung Out On Thrills

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Grooves.  Big fat grooves.  Big, fat,  bass-heavy  grooves.  That’s the first thing that grabs my attention on this second album by Brooklyn...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

John Primer - Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, 13 January 2024

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The thing about Chicago blues legends is that they are, inevitably, pretty old fellas, and at 78-years old John Primer is no exception.  So ...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Wayward Sons - Riverside, Newcastle, 14 January 2024

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Lightning-strike riffing. Wah-wah howling, hair-tossing lead guitar. Thunder-cracking, skins-flaying drums. Shape-throwing, bassist pogo-ing...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Danielle Nicole - The Love You Bleed

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When this third album by Danielle Nicole kicks off with ‘Love On My Brain’ , it doesn’t take long for one of her prime assets to come into p...
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Saturday, January 6, 2024

Chris O'Leary - The Hard Line

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First impressions, eh?  I mean, the first time I played this new album from Chris O’Leary, I kind of half-listened to it while pottering abo...