Blues

The Arhoolie Records 50th-anniversary box squeezes 72 tracks (38 unissued) into 4 CDs. With those is a full-color, 136-page hardcover book full of photos that tells the story of Chris Strachwitz and his unquenchable thirst to record real roots music in...

The Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival is a yearly event held each summer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This festival gathers up the best in blues from around the nation. This album was originally released as a two-record set on Atlantic Records in 1972. The...

The album contains original pieces, written together by Lello and Tollak, besides the very personal reinterpretation of some new soul classics. The friendship and artistic collaboration that binds them convinces Tollak to submit a demo to the great Jimmy...

The album "Postcard From Beale Street" by the Eric Hughes Band was released in 20201. Ain't Whipped Yet 2. Oh, Booze! 3. He's Just An Alley Cat 4. Follow Your Stupid Little Dreams 5. Homesick Angel 6. Fair Weather Friends 7. Blackberry Patch 8. Come See...

The air surrounding a Savoy Brown show is as electric today as it was when they first broke through during the '60s UK blues boom. Here are Kim Simmonds and the band, live in Dortmund, Germany in 2013; watch on DVD (includes a Simmonds interview) and...

The Acoustic Blues & Roots Of Duke Robillard presents Robillard's love of vintage blues, jazz and swing, with a selection of vocal and instrumental cuts. This is his very first acoustic album in a career that spans over five decades. Robillard has worked...

The 70's Japanese tours of Otis Rush, Jimmy Dawkins, Eddie Taylor and others created a small but intense Japanese blues following that bursts over with talent three generations and forty years later. Delmark Records presents No Border Blues, the...

The 4th record from this amazing Rockin Blues outfit from Sweden/Denmark. Again, all songs are originally written by bass player Magnus. Delicious artwork by Henrique San. Our highlights are "Buckle Up" and "Jump Like A Chicken" both dancefloor fillers!...

The "mountain cousin" of the Delta blues, Appalachian blues bears the stamp of a distinctive regional blend of European and African styles and sounds born at the cultural crossroads of railroad camps, mines, and rural settlements. Features 21 tracks...

THE "MOJO" MAN SEZ: I'm proud to present a tasty selection of tunes about "Soul Food" and other stuff black folks like to eat on four complementary volumes. If you don't know what's this all about let me put y'all wise: Soul food is an ethnic cuisine...

That's What Happens was recorded in Studio Two, at Abbey Road Studios with Grammy-winning bluesman Joe Henry (Solomon Burke, Allen Toussaint, Elvis Costello & Bonnie Raitt) on production duties. It sees Chas and Dave return to their roots with a...

That title could refer to this being a set devoted to the original Sonny Boy (John Lee Williamson, not Rice Miller), or to Sonny Boy's trailblazing harmonica style. He was one of the first and greatest blues-harmonica masters, and his sound has echoed...