Blues

An amazing vocalist who also wrote most of her own material, Lou McClinton, professionally known as Lou Mac (or sometimes spelled Lu Mac) was one of the finest R&B singers on the Chicago scene of the mid-1950s. Presented here is her rare classic 1956...

An almost all-instrumental blues guitar release by one of the most acclaimed guitarists of our time. With The Broadcasters, his band of over 25 years, Ronnie's latest 'live' release shows him to be one of the most soulful blues/soul/jazz guitarists...

An all but ubiquitous figure in the colourful and crazy backstory of the nonstop London folk/psych/glam/ theatrical demi-mondes, Dana Gillespie is forever both a challenging artiste and a legendary beauty. Her two1968-69 Decca/London Records albums,...

An album that Junior often cites as his own personal favorite among his releases, this is the man live and raw recorded at Theresa's Tavern, the south-side Chicago bar, where Junior (and many other blues legends) could often be found spending a little...

An album of songs of timely relevance - original and vintage songs which refer to the hard times of recent years - and 'up' Blues. Sometimes you've just got to get into some music and lose your blues and that's what "Shake The Blues" is all about. "Shake...

An album of classic 1920s Blues performed by two of Australia's leading exponents of the genre and reinterpreted for the 21st century. Christa Hughes (ex-Machine Gun Fellatio)has been singing the blues since she could talk and her father Dick Hughes is...

Amour is the first collaboration between famed Colin Linden (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, ABC's hit TV show "Nashville)" and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars, Black Crowes). It is made up of a collection of classic love songs from Americana,...

Amongst the African American communities of the 1940s Wynonie Harris was a star, probably what we nowadays would like to call a superstar. Strangely as rock & roll gripped the world in the 1950s no one seemed interested in him despite his obvious stature...

Ammons' name is on the marquee, but Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis share the ivories as you hear 18 live and studio cuts from '38 and '39! It's a boogie-woogie blowout: Bear Cat Shuffle; Mama's Blues; Jesse James; Yancey Special; Try Again; Shout for...

America's First Lady of Roots Music, Maria Muldaur, returns to her original roots - Jug Band Music! Maria first recorded in the early 60's with both the Even Dozen and the Jim Kweskin Jug Bands. Here she has reunited with several of her former jug band...

American Blues icon Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton is perhaps best known as the original singer of "Hound Dog" and as a powerful voice in the progression of black R&B into rock music in the 1950's. Born in 1926 to minister Thomas H. Thornton and singer...

Although the term "Texas Blues" is rather more synonymous with electric guitar slingers like T-Bone Walker and Albert Collins, acoustic Country Blues performers like Lightning Hopkins and MELVIN "LIL' SON" JACKSON were equally popular on their home patch...