Blues

CD companion to the vinyl reissue of the third album from hugely influential British bluesman John Mayall, who gave a boost to a young Eric Clapton when Mayall asked Clapton to join his Bluesbreakers band. Having left the Bluesbreakers behind, Mayall...

Carlos Guitarlos emerged from the lost years in 2003 with the critically acclaimed Straight from the Heart release. The long awaited follow up, Hell Can Wait, showcases a stronger, healthier Carlos on 19 tracks featuring accompanied by notables such as...

Carlos Guitarlos' career resurgence reaches a milestone with the release of 'Straight from the Heart'. The Los Angeles and San Francisco music legend's initial solo offering is an eclectic ensemble of 17 original tunes that embodies the diversity of...

Carl Weathersby was the co-leader of the Sons of Blues, one of Chicago's premier blues bands. His debut release under his own name (last year's Don't Lay Your Blues on Me) earned him a W.C. Handy Award nomination for "Best New Blues Artist." on this new...

Cannon's Jug Stompes wer eone of the all-time great jug bands, perhaps the best at capturing the full flavor of the rural countryside's delightful rhythms and hunting expressiveness. Their repertoire covers the whoke panorama of American rural music:...

Cancer struck guitarist Hip Linkchain down before he could shed his status as a Chicago blues journeyman. With a fine album on the Dutch Black Magic logo ("Airbusters") to his credit shortly before he died, Linkchain might have managed to move up a rung...

Calling himself "A Child Of The Blues" Michael Jerome Browne revisits the songs of his youth - those that he learned to play when he first picked up a guitar and that stuck with him through nearly five decades as a Roots music performer and historian...

Cajun-souled blues guitarist Tab Benoit releases his latest and most impressive effort FEVER FOR THE BAYOU. "...[Tab Benoit] is one of the best young American blues artists - Boston Herald.1. Night Train 2. Little Girl Blues 3. I Smell a Rat 4. Fever for...

By the late 1970s, it was becoming increasingly rare to find quality blues music in America. Artists like B.B. King and Little Milton had already made their mark, and it was challenging for the next generation of blues musicians to find commercial...

By the late 1920s, Biddle Street was the site of most blues activity in St. Louis; 13 of the 19 songs here are never before released performances - features Speckled Red, Henry Brown, Stump Johnson, Jame Crutchfield & Lawrence Henry.1. Oh, Red! -...

By the end of 1968, some six years before he died, T-Bone Walker's name had already gone down in history. But although history had taken the artist into it's Hall of Fame, it hadn't done much o feed him, and Walker found himself strangely torn between...

By the early 1950s record companies were scouring the South for talent but few of the musicians they found went on to have full-blown recording careers. Many featured here made a handful of records and some are represented by the only record to their...