Blues

While Chris was in New Orleans for a month in '91 playing with Dr. John, he rented See-Saint studio to record a session with Crescent City legend Eddie Bo. Veterans of the bands of Bobby "Blue" Bland, the Nevilles, Lee Dorsey and more joined them, and...

Where would the Chicago blues scene have been without Henry Gray as mainstay on piano for most of the big stars, names such as Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed and Billy Boy Arnold. This CD presents Henry Gray in another of our "In Session" series...

Where The River Meets The Road - Tim O'Brien - Grammy award winning singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist Tim O'Brien grew up singing in church and in school, and started playing the guitar at age twelve. After seeing Doc Watson on TV, he became a...

When you think of the blues in Canada, one artist is always mentioned first - Down child. Almost 40 years since their formation, this Canadian institution are still at the top of their game - taking home this years Maple Blues Award for Entertainer of...

When you ain't got a woman, you got the blues... when you got a woman... you STILL got the blues. This is the lesson you will learn hep cats and kittens, by simply listening and dancing to this wonderful anthology filled to the brim with songs about the...

When Terry Evans sings, people listen... and believe. For years, Evans voice has fueled albums by the likes of John Fogerty, John Lee Hooker and Ry Cooder. Terry's first album for AudioQuest Music, "Puttin' It Down", was called "one for the ages" by...

When Omnivore Recordings acquired Nighthawk Records they also gained a secret weapon in Leroy Jodie Pierson. Leroy had founded Nighthawk, co-produced most of the albums, wrote most of the liner notes, photographed the artists, and best of all, wanted to...

When Maria Muldaur discovered the music of Tuba Skinny she learned that just like herself, these musicians study, play and immerse themselves in early blues, jazz and jug-band music of the 20s and 30s. Listening to their albums, Maria came to the...

When Magic Sam passed away in 1969 at the age of 32, the world lost one of the greatest bluesmen of all time, robbing Sam of his place in blues history. He, along with a very few others, created the West Side style of Chicago blues, the style copied most...

When George "Daddy Hotcakes" Montgomery sings "Mustard Greens," his rich, rugged voice shifts from a call-and-response conversation about eating cornbread and mustard greens to lyrics about growing up in the country. The impulse of the moment is what...

When Dickey Betts entered the stage at the second Rockpalast rocknight in 1978 another magic moment in the long history of Rockpalast was born. Dickey Betts was sparkling with his delight in playing and fired his songs and guitar solos into the audience...

Whatever it's nomenclature, entertainers have long enjoyed a "special relationship" with cannabis/marijuana, particularly musicians and singers, who've long delighted in extolling the joys of recreational drugs. This compilation deals with the leaf's...