Blues

Master drummer/percussionist Kahil El'Zabar invited special guest, violinist Billy Bang to perform live at Chicago's River East Art Center on December 18, 2004. The concert was a multi-media event with painters, sculptors, and video projection. This is...

Mascot Records is proud to announce the release of 'Voices', the new studio album from blues rockers, The Cold Stares, available everywhere March 10th, 2023. For the past ten years, The Cold Stares have toured the world relentlessly as a duo, blowing...

Martin Luther King, Jr.. called Odetta the Queen of American Folk music. She was one of the first female singers to forge the bond between traditional Folk music and more contemporary forms, such as the Blues, Gospel music and protest songs. With her...

Martin Lang represents a younger generation of Chicago blues harmonica virtuosos. A longtime studio musician for the venerated Delmark Records he has toured extensively backing up Chicago blues vocalists Taildragger and Willie Buck among others He...

Martin Lang is a master of Chicago style blues harmonica. Long a stalwart session artist for Delmark Records, this is his second release as a band leader on Random Chance. His band includes: Oscar Wilson who has performed for many years as the front man...

Mark Hummel is one of the Very Top Notch guys on the Blues Harmonica Scene today, - Chicago Blues Legend Billy Boy Arnold. Grammy nominated Harp Ace MARK HUMMEL is moving forward by looking backwards on his new Electro-Fi release WAYBACK MACHINE, and...

Mark Burgess established his reputation as a lyricist and songwriter with UK band, The Chameleons (UK) at the dawn of the 80's and the band went on to become one of the UK's most influential guitar bands of modern times, having been cited by the likes of...

MARIE?KNIGHT?started out as a Gospel singer in the early 1940s, recording with several renowned groups, before teaming up with the mighty?Sister Rosetta Tharpe, with whom she worked extensively until the mid-50s. Their body of work together included...

Marie Adams - Colloquially Nicknamed "TV Mama" - Was Best Known By UK Audiences For Her Role In The Johnny Otis Show With Her Backing Singers, The Three Tons Of Joy. She'd However Enjoyed Earlier Success As A Singer, Recording Gospel And R&B Material For...

Maria Muldaur has produced this tribute to her blues hero Memphis Minnie. Including previously released tracks by Maria with Alvin Youngblood Hart, Del Rey, Roy Rogers and Steve James, new recordings by Rory Block, Ruthie Foster and Bonnie Raitt and...

Maria Muldaur - still remembered for her classic hit "Midnight at the Oasis" - has become one of Stony Plain's most treasured artists. NAUGHTY BAWDY AND BLUE is the third in a series of CDs of classic blues material from the '20s through the '40s. This...

Marcia Ball returns with THE TATTOOED LADY AND THE ALLIGATOR MAN. One of America's best known and beloved roots artists, with four decades of touring and 15 critically acclaimed albums, national television and radio appearances, AAA and Americana radio...