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The Blues and Roots Music Blog
2d ago
Patty Tuite has followed last year's successful release, “Consider This,” with a new recording called “Hard Case Of The Blues.” This fabulous album features world-renowned blues musicians and showcases Bobby Rush.
The collection of original songs ranges from traditional blues to honky-tonk to rock to New Orleans blues. By cooking up this diverse rhythmic stew, Patty created a blues gumbo that will satisfy any palette! Produced by Paul Nelson, the same Grammy-winning producer who worked on “Consider This,” the album has a sophisticated polish without compromising its roots sensib ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
1w ago
BreakTime is a New Jersey originals-and-covers band that champions an upbeat, optimistic pop rock style with generous vintage flair. The band’s cover repertoire extends over 60 years and includes nods to artists from Chuck Berry to The Black Keys. Taking inspiration from their cover repertoire’s stylistic breadth, BreakTime makes original material exploits into traditional rock ‘n’ roll, sixties pop, surf rock, hard rock, and folk.
Fans propelled the band’s latest single release, the blistering hard rock track “Mastermind,” to over 7,000 streams. True to their genre-hopping habits, Br ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
2w ago
Fun-Guy Records and Reverend Horton Heat are pleased to announce the release of the album “Roots of the Rev.” (Volume One) by Reverend Horton Heat.
“Roots of the Rev. (Volume One)” is an album of cover songs that have a connection to the band. Many of the songs are by artists who we knew personally – like Willie Nelson and Ronnie Dawson. Some songs are just a part of the history of Reverend Horton Heat. Each song’s relationship to the band is explained in detail in the liner notes.
The decidedly lo-fi album was recorded with a very live feel and mixed in monophonic – a few ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
1M ago
Uttica, NY native Matt Lomeo received his first harmonica at 9. He soon began singing and playing in bands with his older brother Adam on guitar, and in 1999 became the youngest artist ever invited to perform at a Woodstock Festival at the age of 10. Early encounters with road warriors Little Charlie & The Nightcats and harp virtuoso Sugar Blue encouraged the brothers, and they continued to perform through Matt’s teen and college years. After moving to Memphis and earning a house gig at Club Handy on world-famous Beale Street, Matt’s showmanship quickly developed, and diverse tour ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
1M ago
After countless challenges, on February 17, 2023, the world will finally hear the new album from award-winning songwriter James Tristan Redding.
Redding left behind a career at a New York investment bank to find his voice in Music City, only to produce possibly the least Nashville-sounding album of 2023. Along the way, James faced panic attacks, Lyme disease, Covid, salmonella, a break-up and an IRS audit, all during the writing and recording of these 10 songs.
The recording took more than 200 hours over the span of 1 year, on equipment worth appx $1500, in a one bedroom apartment in ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
1M ago
Mississippi Bound is the much anticipated new release from Australian songwriter Ivor S.K. Following the acclaimed Montserrat, Mississippi Bound - Ivor’s output since relocating to New Orleans - is a 15-track roots odyssey. Keeping with his two previous releases, it’s all-original, self-performed and reinforcing Ivor’s singular style and feel while showcasing a few new strings to the bow.
The album kicks off via a tangential excursion to the Caribbean in the form of the title track - three minutes of ska-dipped R'n'B - and in Ivor’s inimitable fashio ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
1M ago
Big Shoes is a Nashville, TN based American Roots Supergroup who incorporate traditional influences like B.B King and Ray Charles along with tastes of The Allman Brothers’ Band, Bonnie Raitt and the Neville Brothers into their originals/cover song format.
Originally formed as a” tribute project” to recreate the early music of the iconic band Little Feat, it became clear early on that there were some very fine writers in Big Shoes and thus began a fun and impressive journey that culminated in the release of their first album, “Shoes Blues” and most recently the critically acclaim ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
2M ago
Delta Wires, longtime mainstays in the San Francisco/Bay area blues scene, release their new full-length album, If Somebody Told Me....
Ernie Pinata’s searing and impassioned harp on the track 'Can't Win For Losin' opens this dynamic new album. This seven-piece East Bay-based band has been generating powerful blues for over thirty years, performing at festivals from Monterey to Italy, and always with monumental audience response -- all of which has earned them membership in California’s Blues Hall of Fame in 2012.
The Delta Wires' potent combination of tight and highly-polished horns ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
2M ago
Zoom (Karen Lawrence) was born on a small farm in Romulus Michigan, but has cut a path to stages all over the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. She was introduced to the blues at 3 years old and in the late 70’s, she saw Koko Taylor for the first time. That experience of seeing and hearing Koko’s raw tone changed her life.
Hitting the road in the 90’s and gaining recognition, she was invited to join prestigious Chicago Blues Tours across Europe. Sharing the stage with some of her idols like Koko Taylor, Bobby Bland, Albert King, James Cotton, Junior Wells, John Primer, Lucky Pet ..read more
The Blues and Roots Music Blog
2M ago
From sweet blues to gritty, stomping, blues-rocking beats, and now having seven nominations in the Independent Blues Awards, a Western Australian Music Award win and three back-to-back Number One Australian Blues albums, this is a breakout Australian blues artist you do not want to miss out on seeing.
The Matty T Wall band returns to the stage more motivated and addictively electric than ever with two killer rhythm legends of the scene, Ric Whittle on drums and Leigh Miller on bass guitar. While the music that Matty plays has roots in the past, he is a very much an artist in the prese ..read more