In a Blue Mood

Vintage 18 Grit Self-Produced The Washington DC area blues and rhythm group debuts on CD with this recording. Comprised of vocalist Robbin...

Diana Krall Turn Up The Quiet Verve Records The latest recording by the acclaimed and honored pianist and singer Diana Krall presents her ...

Lauren Mitchell Desire Self-Produced Florida based singer Lauren Mitchell went out to the West Coast to record this new release of hers w...

Corey Ledet & His Zydeco Band Standing on Faith Corey Ledet has been one of the vital 'young' voices in Zydeco for over a deca...

Vaneese Thomas Blues For My Father Segue Records The youngest daughter of the legendary Rufus Thomas, Vaneese Thomas, like her sister Carl...

Snooks Eaglin Soul’s Edge
 Blacktop

 A recent Offbeat article analogized that Snooks Eaglin is to guitarists what Professor Longhair w...

Vanesse Thomas The Long Journey Home Segue Records It has been a couple years since Vaneese Thomas, daughter of the legendary Rufus Thomas...

Chris Rogers Voyage Home Art of Life Records This album is the debut as a leader by trumpeter Chris Rogers, who is the son of legendary sa...

Wee Willie Walker & The Greaseland All Stars Live! Notodden Blues Festival Little Village Foundation Kim Wilson refers to Willie W...

Duchess Laughing at Life Anzic Records Duchess, the flirty and fun jazz vocal trio of Amy Cervini, Hillary Gardner and Melissa Stylianou, ...

Beverly Guitar Watkins at the 2013 Tinner Hill Blues Festival The weekend of Friday June 9 through Sunday June 11, the City of Falls Chu...

J ames Peterson Don’t Let The Devil Ride
 Waldoxy

 I remember the first time I saw James Peterson. It was a Main Street Buffalo, New Y...

Marquis Hill The Way We Play Concord Jazz This is first Concord Jazz release for the winner of the 2014 Thelonious Monk Institute Trumpet ...

Talking Music 2: Blues and Roots Music Mavericks Holger Petersen Insomniac Press: London, Ontario 2016:428 pp Canadian Holger Peterson may...

Dayna Stephens Gratitude Contagious Music The title of saxophonist Dayna Stephens latest album (his eighth as a leader) refers to the warm...

Selwyn Birchwood Pick Your Poison Alligator Records This is the second Alligator release by the Floridian blues talent and his marvelous b...

The Microscopic Septet Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me:The Micros Play the Blues Cuneiform Records Despite the solemnity some may...

George “Big” Wheeler* Bone Orchard Delmark Classic Chicago harmonica blues can be heard in this debut album by veteran Chicago harpist, Ge...

Beth Garner Snake Farm The Music of Nashville Roots Singer-Songwriter-Guitarist Beth Garner has a new album with a bluesy flavor. Six of t...

Vanessa Collier Meeting My Shadow Ruf Records Young saxophonist, vocalist, and songwriter is a graduate of world-renowned Berklee College ...