Blues

Delmark's 55th anniversary blues bash at Buddy Guy's Legends on March 7, 2008 featured most of Delmark's local blues roster, a Delmark Day proclamation from Mayor Daley and a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for the groundbreaking Hoodoo Man Blues album. Live...

Delmark has begun reissuing records from the legendary Apollo label, and this release is a definite winner, especially on nine of these 15 cuts that were previously unissued. Sunnyland Slim was one of the great Chicago blues keyboardists, and this 1949...

Definitive 2 CD set containing one take of every recording Ms. James made for Modern and Kent Records between 1954-1958, plus every surviving significant alternate take, re-mastered from the original Modern tape sources. Many of the tracks here are...

Deep in the Night is Mississippi guitar ace Lil' Dave Thompson's 2nd release on Electro-Fi and it's a wonderful showcase for his considerable guitar, vocal and song writing abilities. Few artists under 40 have Lil' Dave's Deep Blues pedigree, having...

Deep Fried Satisfied, Claude Hay displays both a sure grasp of Delta blues fundamentals and a willingness to push against convention. Except for one track, this Australian guitarist wrote the songs, played them on homemade instruments and recorded them...

Decades of blues and jazz vocalists sang in the shadow of the Empress, whose powerhouse voice still packs a wallop nearly 90 years later. Here are more than two hours of key cuts: her hits Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; T'ain't Nobody's...

Debut rockin' jumpin' tribute to Rhythm & blues vinyl by these contemporary masters of the jump-blues tradition. "The cover alone is well worth the price, has all bases covered in the area of good time, jumping R&B" with moody sax instrumentals, swing,...

Debut release from the Brotherhood of the Blues Jug Band, a New York based group that plays in clubs in NYC. It's part of the blues-folk-New Orleans style jazz revival that is happening in new clubs in the East Village and also in areas of Brooklyn such...

Debut recording by Ann Arbor's best contemporary bluegrass band creating an exciting new standard in bluegrass and related acoustic music.1. Don't Go Looking for Me Now 2. Stone Soup 3. Jason's Jump 4. Book of Love 5. Before We Arrive 6. Swang Thang 7...

Debut by guitarist/vocalist is a mixed bag of jazzy swing blues & Texas roadhouse rock w. sizzling guitar, soaring Hammond B-3 organ & a tinge of mariachi horns - Keller calls his music "Tex-clectic"1. Leopard Skin Mini Skirt 2. Never Going Back 3. How...

Debut album from 1997, originally a limited release on the band's own label, now given a world-wide release by Indigo Records. Includes 8 tracks of explosive British R&B music capturing all the energy & excitement of this great act.1. Mellow Down Easy 2...

'Dear friends, today live at Rockpalast: The Icebreakers!' With these words Albrecht Metzger announced the blues band of four, which the audience of the Westfalenhalle 2 in Dortmund, Germany didn't know much about yet on November 26th 1980. After the...