Taking Sides, the latest release by the Terry Quiett Band features twelve scorching, soulful originals, along with one classy cover, range from raw country blues to grooving R&B driven hard by bassist Nathan Johnson and drummer Rodney Baker and augmented by “Mississippi” Hal Reed (harp), Scott Williams (keyboards and tenor[…]
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Singer Lisa Biales (pronounced “Bee-Alice”) announces a March 4 release date for her latest album, Belle of the Blues, on the Big Song Music label, with production by multi-Blues Music Award nominee EG Kight and legendary Southern Rock producer Paul Hornsby. The CD was recorded at Hornsby’s Muscadine Studio in Macon,[…]
LSU Press is set to publish author John Wirt’s “Huey ‘Piano’ Smith And The Rocking Pneumonia Blues,” the first ever biography of New Orleans R&B Music Legend — and Rock and Roll pioneer. “I credit Huey with opening the door for funk, basically as we know it, in some ridiculously hip[…]
First Name Lucky is Memphis-inspired, horn-driven, sweat-soaked soul-blues. Inspired by a recent trip to Memphis, Tweed Funk wanted to create an organic album with a minimal amount of overdubs and production. Tweed Funk’s goal was to capture the energy, excitement and raw emotive power of seven freshly penned original tunes[…]
Delmark Records is ecstatic to present for the first time ever on CD, a very rare Chicago Blues LP from Queen Sylvia & John Embry. The album After Work from 1980 has become a collector’s item for hardcore, real-deal Chicago blues fans all over the world. Now titled Troubles, this[…]