In a Blue Mood

I had the pleasure to see Charles Brown a number of times after first seeing him at the New York club Tramps in the Summer of 1982 I believe...

Having received the new album, Sonny Please, Sonny Rollins latest recording in the mail today, I was even more delighted to receive by email...

Alabama bluesman, Willie King, has developed a following with his strong juke joint blues that mixes his own take on classic delta and Chica...

The Holmes Brothers new Alligator album, State of Grace , is another solid disc by brothers Wendell and Sherman Holmes and drummer Popsy Dix...

John Németh One of the real pleasures I have is hearing a new voice that just blows me away being rooted deep in the blues tradition, yet si...

On the post-war blues list there was a post about so videos of artists associated with the Music Makers Relief Foundation as well as a link ...

While I have enjoyed the music of David 'Honeyboy' Edwards over the years, I have regarded him not quite of the level of his contemp...

Just a heads up about a terrific tour of many of the leading acts on the Southern Blues Tour that will be making stops in a number of major ...

This is a review I did in 1992 of Dr. Ross for Jazz & Blues Report . Dr. Ross passed away in 1993 and I am fortunate to have seen the o...

Arcola Records is a small label out of Seattle that has been building a very interesting catalog of downhome blues focusing on previously un...

The passing of the legendary Jay McShann this past year was one of many substantial losses the music world suffered. McShann led one of the ...

The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings was recently published and I have some issues with it especially the exclusion of soul blues, but that...

Here is a review from nearly a decade ago of Marcia Ball's Rounder album, Let Me Play With your Poodle that appeared in the Cleveland b...

One of the unsung masters of the tenor saxophone, Von Freeman shows little sign of slowing down after all these years. A contemporary of Son...

The Jackie Payne-Steve Edmonson Band had a critical success with their release of a couple years back, "Partners in the Blues." It...

The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings INEXCUSABLY ignores contemporary soul-blues. I triggered a discussion at the yahoo Post-War Blues List...

This is a review I did of the now out-of-print Mosaic Box of the Candid recordings by Otis Spann and Lightnin' Hopkins. The review as pr...

It was at least a couple decades ago that I first had a chance to catch vocalist Frankie Lee at the long gone NY club Tramps where he sdhare...

I have neglected this blog for way too long. To make up for it I have included my list of outstanding blues recordings from 2006. This is no...

After all why isn't he in the Blues Hall of Fame or his very influential recording "I Wonder" which became a smash by the ...