Author: JD Nash

‘Strange Angels: In Flight With Elmore James’ does an incredible job of paying homage to songs that are at least 50 years old.

“Sometimes you gotta just claim things. If it doesn’t go platinum, it won’t ever be said that it was because we weren’t out there trying.”

As a musical genre, it arguably dates back almost a century. But who really invented the music known as rock and roll? Here are the contenders.

If you’re a lover of blues, soul, Gospel, or simply socially conscious, you’re gonna want ‘The Reverend Shawn Amos Breaks It Down.’

The final volume in a trilogy from the Hendrix archives, ‘Both Sides of the Sky’ focuses on music recorded between 1968 and Hendrix’s death in 1970.

Hosting over 1,500 shows to date, Callahan’s has also been home for the Detroit Blues Society’s annual Blues Challenge, whose winners advance to the IBC in Memphis.

This tribute album puts iconic tunes like “Shake Your Moneymaker,” “Look on Yonder Wall,” and “Person to Person” alongside songs known mainly by James aficionados.

April, 2018 marks the 60th anniversary of Link Wray’s “Rumble.” An iconic song from a legendary guitarist, “Rumble” changed the face and sound of rock and roll forever by introducing the world to power chords and intentional distortion. In honor of this historic issue, Easy Eye Sound announced that it will release “Son of Rumble,” Wray’s intended, but never released follow-up to the song. Coming from the Link Wray archives, along with b-side “Whole Lotta Talking,” another never heard track, “Son of Rumble” will be released April 13th, 2018 on 7″ vinyl. “I saw him play in Cleveland at the…

If you like blues, if you love soul, and you think the two combined are the best thing since sliced bread, you’ll want to get yourself a copy of this album.

James Brown may not have been the first band leader to employ two drummers, but his decision to do so changed the game in music.