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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.
Both Tom Morello, and Nathaniel Rateliff appear on album track “Big Boys,” which Douglas Brinkley calls, “a guitar player’s national anthem” in his notes.
Winning his first W. C. Handy Award (Blues Music Award) in 1981, Magic Slim & The Teardrops won “Best Blues Band of the Year,” no fewer than six times, garnering over 40 nominations in the first three decades of the awards’ existence.
‘Lonesome Highway’, is a true celebration of Billy Flynn’s 60th trip around the sun. Many of the songs were shared with Jimmy Dawkins before his tragic passing in 2013. He offered his advice, and Flynn truly honors his mentor with this one. Sure to be a Delmark classic!
Twenty two acts will take to the stage on May 5th, and 6th, 2017. Among them, Grammy-nominated guitarist, Lurrie Bell, legendary blues rocker, Doyle Bramhall II, and Ruf Records artists, Thorbjørn Risager & the Black Tornado.
Available March 24th, Classic Piedmont Blues offers an illuminating overview of the Piedmont style.
Backed by some of today’s top Nashville session artists, Jo Harman has a hit record on her hands.
This release isn’t for the Saturday night, boogie-woogie crowd. It’s for those of us who still enjoy a glass of sweet tea on a Sunday afternoon. If you fit that category, you’ll be doing yourself a disservice by not immediately purchasing this first-rate record.
Gray will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, on May 11th, in Memphis.
“It’s always given that ‘instant mojo’ to every track I’ve used it on in the past. I thought it was high time I did a project purely on this fantastic machine.”
“Getting to record with a band which has played together for several decades was magical. We’re so comfortable playing together, we finish each other’s licks!”