Blues

Tenor sax player Gaynair hailed from Kingston, Jamaica & was influenced by Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas & Lucky Thompson; it was during a brief visit to London in 1959 that this remastered, original & rare Tempo session was recorded, available for the first...

Tennessee blues poet Sleepy John Estes made his recorded debut in 1929 with the song "Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too". In '35 John teamed up with Hammie Nixon and they went on to record many classic sides together until WWII. After a twenty-year...

Teaming up with Grammy Award winning engineer, Bob Smith, the Robert Cray Band has delivered their most powerful, sophisticated and wide ranging set of material ever. Drawing from musical influences as varied as R&B, gospel, reggae, blues, rock and jazz,...

Teaming up onstage for the first time ever, Samantha Fish, Dani Wilde, and Cassie Taylor feed off each other's unique and vibrant energy on this album. This trio delivers a raw, hot-blooded, power-packed performance you won't soon forget!1. Bitch 2...

T-Bone Walker was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer & innovator of the jump blues & electric blues sound. Very Rare was originally released on Reprise in 1973. It was a two record set, now...

Tampa Red was one of the greatest of all Chicago bluesmen and a huge influence over subsequent generations of Chicago based blues musicians. He released more records than most of his contemporaries following his first recording session in 1928 in Chicago...

TAMPA and ST. PETERSBURG in FLORIDA were the focal point from the late 1940s through to the early 1960s for what is nowadays a neglected and obscure centre of black R&B music, much of it focussed around the saxophonist and bandleader Charles Brantley...

Taking it's name from Public Television's acclaimed concert series "Front and Center" (which featured this performance), this live release arrives 13 years after Beth's highly prized release "Live at Paradiso." Her soulful burnt-honey vocals are in peak...

Taken from unreleased recordings, previous Folkways releases, and early blues recordings, this two-disc set offers an introduction to the vocal styles, ornamentation, and instrumentation of this "highly personal, expressive idiom." Copious liner notes by...

Take Eden Brent to a Nashville studio and you still hear the Mississippi Delta. Recording in the historic RCA Studio A with producer/guitarist extraordinaire Colin Linden, the blues-piano songstress stretched her musical legs, ambling into soulful...

Take a big bucket of unpolished Mississippi juke joint boogie and blend it with another bucket of laid back down home blues. Add a teacup of swamp pop, a tablespoon of hillbilly and a pound of profane, ecstatic gospel and you?ll have the Kokomo Kings...

Taj put a raw, rockin' spin on classic blues on his absolutely killer 1968 debut. Jesse Ed Davis and Ry Cooder join in on Statesboro Blues; Checkin' Up on My Baby; Diving Duck Blues; Dust My Blues; EZ Rider; Leaving Trunk, and more!1. Leaving Trunk 2...