Blues

High Cost is PJ O'Brien's third solo release and comprises of nine original compositions featuring contributions from Al Britton, Davo Fester, Chris Nable, Danny Tsun, Mike Rix, Ray Beadle, George Brugmans, George Bibicos, Rob Woolf, Jessie Wagner and...

Here's an overview of the career of organist Bill Doggett that's a bit different. Most reissues in the CD era have almost entirely focused on his time with King Records. He was with the label in three periods, the 50s and early 60s, and then again in the...

Here's a welcome surprise for blues fans, who might have been despairing they'd never again get a CD full of juicy rarities and previously unreleased goodies. Ray Dobard's Music City imprint didn't record or release a vast amount of blues as Dobard soon...

Here Jasmine Records have another tribute to the great Texas blues guitarists this time focusing on Pee Wee Crayton. As with many Texas blues guitarists he was influenced by T-Bone Walker. However unlike many other T-Bone followers he managed to imbue...

Here is the third and final volume of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers "Live In 1967," featuring Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood just before they formed Fleetwood Mac. Thanks to dedicated fan Tom Huissen who took his one channel reel-to-reel tape...

Here is a collection of vintage blues tracks recorded between 1949 and 1957 all on the subject of money. All the major stars had something to say about the dollar or a lack of in their pocket either literally ometaphorically. John Lee Hooker's later...

Here is a collection of extremely rare early American music. Before movies, radio and television, the traveling Medicine Shows brought entertainment to America. Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the land, hawking their tonics, elixers and miracle cures and...

Here are the fabulous '50s recordings by the woman who sung the original version of Dark Moon. She followed it with Mr. Fire Eyes, Love By The Jukebox Light, and a complete programme of 'Moon' songs. Haunting, countrified pop that first appeared on Fabor...

Here are the complete 1927-38 recordings by the following artists, most of them were called Delta Blues artists! The best known is Son House, but also Willie Brown is famous for his song "Future -Blues", covered from Canned Heat! And also Bobby Grant,...

Here are Texas bluesman Smokey Hogg's wonderful major label recordings from the late '40s and early '50s. Recorded mostly in L.A. with small group accompaniment, this is classic rhythm and blues, enhanced by Smokey's southern vocals and unique sense of...

Here are some of the rarest hot piano solos ever made. These performances were originally recorded in Chicago during the mid to late 1920s by the Capitol Music Roll Company and issued as nickelodeon piano rolls. In 2007 Delmark issued Jimmy Blythe,...

Here are all of Roy Milton's Billboard R&B chart hits together in one neat package for the first time ever. Beginning in 1946with "R. M. Blues" which rocketed to No. 2 and stayed on the chart for another 25 weeks. Roy Milton enjoyed hits on the Billboard...