In a Blue Mood

Lightnin' Hopkins -Shootin’ Fire - April 11, 1969 - Cicadelic Records A release of the legendary, and iconic Lightnin’ Hopkins that incl...

Long John Hunter Border Town Legend Alligator Records Long John Hunter's exhibitionistic electric blues is fields removed from Cephas an...

Robert Ealey If You Need Me Topcat Robert Ealey is somewhat of a legend around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and has made several recor...

Jonn Del Toro Richardson is likely best known as guitarist with the terrific singer, Diunna Greenleaf. He also collaborated with Rich DelG...

I live near Washington DC and like many on the East Coast from the DC area to New York City we got hit with a Snowzilla of a Blizzard.Still ...

Various Down Home Blues Classics: Texas 1946-1954 Boulevard Vintage A four CD European Public Domain reissue of Texas down home blues ...

The review below was part of a review of several Black Top Records compilations issued by Shout Factory in 2006 and appeared in the Septe...

After a number of well-regarded discs for Bullseye  Blues, Smokin’ Joe Kubek and B'nois King have  a new disc,  Roadhouse Research ,...

Darrell Nulisch, as some may know, was featured vocalist with Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets prior to Sam Myers, and many will be awar...

Here is a review that likely appeared in the DC Blues Calendar. It was an excellent recording that Chuck Nevitt, a Dallas, Texas blues l...

For their latest recording (and Delta Groove debut) Close To The Bone , Smokin’ Joe Kubek and B’Nois King unplug themselves for an album ...

One of my favorite blues discoveries of the 1990's was Long John Hunter. A brilliant singer-guitarist, he recorded several fine albu...

For me, one of the highlights of the 2012 Pennsylvania Blues Festival was seeing Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Bridges for the first time in a few yea...

Another of my reviews from late 1998 that I wrote for the DC Blues Calendar , the DC Blues Society I then edited. Roy Gaines’ Bluesman For...

With all the attention being given some of the emerging female singer-guitarists, I would be hard-pressed to find a release as consistentl...

Weldon ‘Juke Boy’ Bonner was a Houston, Texas down home bluesman who passed away in 1978 at the age of 46. Often performing as a one-man ...

Back in 2004 I did a review of Sony/Legacy reissues of Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter albums. The review originally appeared in the Novembe...

Alan Govenar’s 2010 biography, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Blues (Chicago Review Press) detailed the career of one of the true blues ...

Its been way too long since Philip Walker had a new studio album. Delta Groove has just issued Going Back Home , that finds the Gulf Coast n...

Catfood Records has just issued The Best of Kay Kay and the Rays , a compilation of the three albums the label issued from the big-voiced an...