Blues

Barrelhouse Chuck's blues piano playing is filled with heartfelt soul, high energy, and low down greasy blues. His loyalty to carry on the works of legendary players of the past, like Leroy Carr, Little Brother Montgomery, and Sunnyland Slim, also...

Barrelhouse Chuck?s blues piano playing is filled with soul, high energy, and low down greasy blues. His loyalty to carry on the works of legendary players, like his mentors Little Brother Montgomery and Sunnyland Slim, contribute to his style. This disc...

Barkin' Bill didn't bark. He was stylistically similar to the smoother singers like Brook Benton, Joe Williams and Jimmy Witherspoon. In a review of this 1994 release Frank-John Hadley said Barkin' Bill "certainly understands how to draw pained eloquence...

Band's 2nd outing features both Peter & Mick Green among others, and the theme of the disc is all aspects of death; with both Gypie Mayo & Ed Deane on guitars, the music is like Captain Beefheart on acid meets the Mississippi Delta, while shades of Ry...

Bandleader, blue guitarist & producer Specter has earned a international reputation as one of the premier young talents on the Chicago blues scene; this is his 6th Delmark album & it's an instrumental program combining Chicago blues, jump blues &...

Bandleader, arranger, tenor saxist Dave Clark leads the Blues Swingers, a nine piece vintage R&B revivalist band. Their first Delmark appearance was accompanying guitarist Floyd McDaniel on "Let Your Hair Down!" (DMK #671). Floyd passed at the age of 80...

Backed by his orchestra, B.B. King is most assuredly the boss onstage. Listeners will have no doubt about that fact by the time Paying the Cost to Be the Boss closes out this cracking live set that also showcases his sensitive side on Darling You Know I...

Back to Korea Blues collects together more blues & r&b songs that this time mainly reflects the disenchantment that African Americans felt as their contributions to the Second World War effort were not always recognised. Includes songs by such luminaries...

Back in the summer of 2008, Willie approached us with the idea of recording the songs that were important and personal to him. We immediately agreed and stated lining up some of the finest talent in the Midwest to support Willie's remarkable voice. What...

Back in the rockin' '50s, invariably chart-busting R&B records would inspire a slew of covers, follow-ups and some damn fine copy-cat wannabes. "Play It Again," the first of two sets, kicks off with Jackie Brenston's "My Real Gone Rocket" a sequel to his...

Back in 2013, Stomper Time released the first anthology of the Home Of The Blues label from Memphis, Tennessee. The label released around 40 singles from 1960-1962 featuring mainly R&B, early soul and blues. It was known for it's good taste, so the time...

Back in 1988, boogaloo bad-boy Adrian Croasdell compiled one of the first Galaxy/Fantasy album reissues for the Kent imprint ("Black Music Is Our Business"). This trove became a fave among UK Northern Soul tribes. Fantasy later put out their own Galaxy...