Blues

Forest City Joe was born Joe Bennie Pugh in Hughes, Arkansas close to the town of Forrest City from which he took his name but with one "r". He taught himself harmonica and played locally impersonating his idol John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson. Rambling...

For two times the British blues rock institution Nine Below Zero has been guest at the "Rockpalast" in Germany. On August 19th 1981 the band played at the "Test Concert" for the "1st Rockpalast Open-Air Festival" on the famous Loreley rock in St...

For three decades, San Jose-based harmonica player Gary Smith has been an influential figure in the San Francisco Bay Area blues scene. His band was the first to grace the stage at the inaugural S.F. Blues Festival way back in 1973. Long regarded as the...

For the the eleventh volume of FRKWYS, an unrestricted series pairing contemporary artists with their influential predecessors, gifted guitar squire Steve Gunn meets roving, radiating legend Mike Cooper in Lisbon, Portugal. Sharing their vision over...

For the past 20 years, bluesman, Byran Lee has been honing his considerable vocal and guitar chops on New Orleans' Bourbon Street, playing six nights a week to audiences from every corner of the msuical melting pot of the world in seach of a good time...

For the first time on Jasmine's excellent "In Session" series sees the spotlight turned on several players as opposed to just one. Great names like Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Bob Gaddy & Larry Dale got the majority of available studio work and across...

For the first time in her career, Blues diva Dana Gillespie releases a live album. After four studio sets for Ace, dating back to 1982's Blue Job, this CD is released in response to the demand by her audiences around the world. Recorded with the London...

For some, the harmonica is not much more than an inexpensive plaything, but as the artists featured here amply demonstrate, the expressive range of the harmonica is as deep and wide as any other musical instrument in the blues, rivaled only by the human...

For over 50 years John Mayall has served as a pioneer of blues music, rightly earning him the title, "The Godfather of British blues". In 2013, John signed with producer Eric Corne's label, Forty Below Records and has since been experiencing a true...

For our duo album PAY DAY we went to Pinky's paradise to record in a relaxed atmosphere in beautiful, inspiring surroundings in the hilly vineyards of southern Styria. Our recording engineer Thomas L"ffler brought in the equipment and set up a makeshift...

For nearly half a century, Smith has been the go-to man on guitar for the finest talent in St. Louis, from Ike Turner to Jimmy "Soul" Clark. Here, he showcases his hybrid styles of guitar & his deep down-home vocals on 6 originals, including 3...

For much of the 1970s and '80s, guitarist Mighty Joe Young "owned" Chicago's cozy Wise Fools Pub - at least musically speaking, he was the club's top draw. Wise Fools Pub had a long and intriguing history that has played out in three acts. It started...