Author: American Blues Scene Staff

Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Grace Bernicker has been getting back to her roots in pop/soul and is excited about heading in a new direction. She typically performs as a duo with a guitar player. Her music has been described as having a strong lyrical quality, that at once paints a picture and shares a story with her audience. She has released the video for “Home,” her latest soothing and soulful song and the first one she ever recorded and put out in 2012. She explains, “Since then, we’ve played it a million times. In live shows, it’s primarily always played acoustic. I’ve…

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On December 2nd, the five-time-Grammy-nominated guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd will release The Trouble Is…25, a top-to-bottom reinterpretation of his seminal album Trouble Is…, which struck the match that reignited modern blues upon its release 25 years ago. And while the tracklist is almost the same, there is one outlier that fans will notice – a stirring reinterpretation of “Ballad Of A Thin Man,” which was cut from the original release in 1997. I wanted to do Bob Dylan’s ‘Everything Is Broken’ because I had just been on tour with him and he was so good to me and such an…

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