Blues

Ronnie Earl's release Maxwell Street is named in honour of blues pianist and previous member of the Broadcasters David Maxwell and is a nod to Chicago's Maxwell Street where blues musicians gathered to play outside for the Sunday market crowds. It...

Ronnie Earl is one of the most revered guitar players working today. Earl, along with the Broadcasters, his band of over 25 years, presents GOOD NEWS, a mostly instrumental album of spellbinding intensity and deep soul that will satisfy his growing...

Rolling Stone called these Alligator collections "definitive," and they are. Here are "Don't Answer the Door," "Two Headed Man," "Cold, Lonely Nights" Lonnie Brooks, "Worry, Worry," "Sunnyland Blues" Big Moose Walker, "Stranded on the Highway," "Dirty...

Rockin' blues from bay area favorites Kathi McDonald who worked with Big Brother & the Holding Company after Janis and Rich Kirch worked with John Lee Hooker for 13 years.1. Rollin' and Tumblin' 2. Talk to Me Baby 3. Trouble 4. Wang Dang Doodle 5. Big...

Rock/blues at it's finest. Originally given a limited release in 2004, this "Savoy Brown (featuring Kim Simmonds)" live album, recorded in Vancouver, Canada, now gets a full national release. The album features wonderful concert versions of the Savoy...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bishop and Grammy-winning harmonica great Musselwhite join forces for a fun and historic collaboration of front porch blues. Among the most famous bluesmen in the world, with over five decades each of recording and performing,...

Robin Sylar's new release for TopCat Records runs the gamut of styles - blues, rock, acid rock, surf and jazz. Always reaching for notes from the gut, his execution is tasteful, visceral, yet on the brink of flying apart at any second. Besides tearing up...

Robert Petway is famous recording the first version of 'Catfish Blues', which has provided the template for innumerable versions ever since. The fourteen titles here reveal a strongly rhythmic approach, a growling voice, and those little self-encouraging...

Robert Pete Williams on guitar and vocals recorded in 1971, except three tracks are from 1950. Tracks: Broken-Hearted Man, May Rise Out of My Tomb, Lord, Help Poor Me, No One to Care for Me, Sick And Lonesome, Ramblin' Man, Tippin' in on Me, Straighten...

Robert Pete Williams - vocals & 6- or 12- string guitar. Recorded by Harry Oster at Angola State Penitentiary Louisiana in 1959 and 1960. #1 2 & 14 recorded by Chris Strachwitz in Berkeley CA April 1970. Edited by Henry Kaiser.1. When a Man Takes the...

Robert Nighthawk, also known during the early years of his career by the name of Robert Lee McCoy, as well as other pseudonyms like Ramblin' Bob and Peetie's Boy, was a blues slide guitarist, singer and songwriter whose influence far outweighs the...

Robert Nighthawk was one of the most influential blues guitarists of the post war period, a stature he achieved without the benefit of many hit records. His song "Sweet Black Angel Blues" became a blues standard when B. B. King covered it as "Sweet...