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Author: JD Nash
JD Nash is the former host of Blues Influence on WREN radio and current editor-in-chief of American Blues Scene.
“Everybody’s had a broken heart. We wanted to avoid a mopey ballad and power through it.”
The one single thread that weaves through all the music on this album, is that there isn’t one.
“So-Called Storyteller,” is the first single released from Basile’s upcoming album, ‘B’s Hot House.’
Valerie and Ben Turner, the husband and wife duo known as Piedmont Blūz, are true ambassadors of Country Blues music. More appropriately, the music of the Eastern United States known as Piedmont Blues. It is a finger-picking style of music based on ragtime type rhythms. Some of the originators of this style include Blind Blake and Rev Gary Davis. However, later artists have included Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, as well as Cephas & Wiggins. And even later Eric Bibb, Ry Cooder, and others have spread this art form throughout the country and the world. Arlo Guthrie famously used a…
The documentary’s title “On Va Continuer” refers to Lost Bayou Ramblers’ ongoing commitment to performing in Cajun French, propagating French as a living language in Louisiana.
It’s upbeat, funky, and anointed with soul. He’s “Knockin’ On The Door,” for Pete’s sake, let him in!
It’s seven minutes of pure, live, red dirt, dance party heaven.
Giles Robson is one badass, harp blowin’ son-of-a-gun.
Let Go Of The Reins has a swampy, funky flavor sprinkled all over it, making it just as tasty as a crawfish boil
“I guess this was an opportunity to put some tunes and moods out there.” – Bruce Katz