In a Blue Mood

Johnny Iguana Johnny Iguana's Chicago Spectacular Delmark This album is subtitled " A Grand and Upright Celebration of Chicago Blue...

Kim Wilson Take Me Back: The Bigtone Sessions M.C. Records "Take Me Back" is Kim Wilson's first new release in three years. Th...

John Primer & Bob Corritore The Gypsy Woman Told Me Vizztone/ SWMAC Records This is the third recording by the former Muddy Waters...

Mark Hummel Way Back Machine Electro-Fi Records This is the latest recording in Mark Hummel's quite distinguished 35-odd year care...

The Cash Box Kings Hail to the Kings Alligator The new recording by the Chicago based Cash Box Kings is a terrific CD of traditionally roo...

Willie Buck Willie Buck Way Delmark Records Reviewing Delmark's 2010 expanded release of Willie Buck's 1982 album, "The L...

Various artists Tribute: Delmark's 65th Anniversary Delmark Records As Delmark celebrates 65 years since founded in St. Louis by B...

Mud Morganfield They Call Me Mud Severn Records This is the third Severn release for the late Muddy Waters' son Larry 'Mud ...

Kim Wilson Blues and Boogie Vol. 1 Severn Records This latest album from Kim Wilson finds him in somewhat of what some might describe as a...

The Cash Box Kings Royal Mint Alligator Records Those wanting some house party, rocking real deal blues need go no further than The Cash B...

Billy Flynn Lonesome Highway Delmark Records As Tom Hyslop observes, for all the recordings Billy Flynn has played on for Delmark over sev...

If one closes one eyes while listening to For Pops | A Tribute to Muddy Waters the new Severn Records release by Mud Morganfield & Ki...

Barrelhouse Chuck Goering is one of the most accomplished traditionally oriented blues pianists (and organists), having been mentored...

Harmonica player and singer, Al Miller, is a contemporary of Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite and Mike Bloomfield who was among the ...

Celebrating the band’s 20 years, Delta Bound  is the new Delmark release by Mississippi Heat, the band that is led by harmonica player P...

Felix Wohrstein’s liner notes to Dawkins’ new Earwig recording,  Kant Shek Dees Bluze ,  state that “there are no Jimmy Dawkins imitator...

The last year and a half saw two books about the great Chicago-based blues artist big Bill Broonzy. Bob Riesman’s I Feel So Good , emerg...

The eldest son of the legendary Muddy Waters, Mud Morganfield was originally given a drum set by his father when he was 7, and began singing...

Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith is best known for his tenure as drummer with the great Muddy Waters. Later he was the foundation of the Legendary Bl...

A delightful surprise is a new double CD, “Chicago Blues: A Living History,” (Raisin Music). It is an attempt to portray a sketch of the evo...