Author: American Blues Scene Staff
From Second Half Records and Moondog Music, Chris Antonik’s new single “Waves of Stone,” hits like a thunderbolt, with its riff-driven blues-rock, classic blues themes, and modern-rock intensity. Emotionally propelled by the miscommunication and deafening silence experienced in the final weeks of a relationship, “Waves” features the incendiary guitar interplay of two of today’s most exciting guitarists, 3x-Maple Blues Award-nominee Antonik and 3x-Blues Music Award- nominee Jarekus Singleton, anchored by the track’s pounding groove, soaring gospel singers, and grand piano pumped through a roaring Leslie speaker. Forged from a crucible of pain and loss, this juggernaut from Chris Antonik powers…
Tedeschi Trucks Band — the revered, GRAMMY-winning, twelve-piece rock and soul band headed by Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi — release I Am The Moon: Crescent, the first episode of their epic four-part I Am The Moon album series. On Tuesday (5/31), the band premiered Crescent and it’s album-length companion film to over 10k fans via their YouTube Channel. Directed by Alix Lambert, the film featured kaleidoscopic visuals and footage of the band’s creative process shot in Pasaquan in Georgia, and offered a unique opportunity to communally experience the music in full alongside members of the band. https://youtu.be/I_smMxopFJs Featuring I…
Chicago blues is Dave Weld’s lifeblood. From his beginnings mentored by JB Hutto to his decades with Lil Ed Williams and his Blues Imperials, he has taken the blues around the world. Weld and his Imperial Flames have a brand-new album titled Nightwalk, their third for Chicago’s Delmark Records. Nightwalk deepens the forward-thinking sound and energy of their contemporary blues albums past, weaving an original tapestry of old and new traditions. Highlights include “Mary Who,” an authentic musical tour de force and vivid portrait of urban life and his tribute to JB Hutto, “Don’t Ever Change Your Ways.” Weld told Blues…
Thoroughbred Music announced the addition of Jamaican born folk/reggae/rock singer-songwriter Dwight Anthony Davis to their stable of artists, and the release of Davis’ new single, “Hurry.” This is the first song from the forthcoming album of the same name. The album Hurry is a collection of cracking songs now updated and rejuvenated under the leadership of new global record label Thoroughbred Music for a brand-new release, featuring a new reggae flock fusion of the first single, along with new songs. “Hurry” was born out of a period when Dwight faced many adversities in his life. He woke up one morning,…
Welcome to Windy City Wednesday. This newest offering from American Blues Scene will share classic and sometimes forgotten blues albums from some of the most iconic Chicago blues men and women ever to grace wax. This edition focuses on the album The Legend of Sleepy John Estes by Sleepy John Estes. *Notes from the ALL MUSIC Review by Alex Henderson In the late ’50s Sleepy John Estes wasn’t nearly as visible as he had been before and during World War II — in fact, he had become so obscure that some historians wondered if he had died. But the blues…
The album will be available on CD exclusively to the Music Maker Listeners Circle on June 1 and will be available to the general public streaming July 1.
It’s music for Saturday night sinners, delivered with the sort of fire-and-brimstone fury that’ll attract a few Sunday morning holy rollers, too.
Lost archive (1970-1980) features previously unheard recordings from Daryl Hall and John Oates,
David Johansen (New York Dolls), Terry Allen, The Jim Carroll Band,
Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark, Andy Warhol’s Superstar Ultra Violet,
Norma Jean Bell, and many more
Single for author, award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist honors East Nashville’s diverse neighborhood!
For today’s edition of Windy City Wednesday, we look back to the 2012 review of Spider Eating Preacher by Eddie C. Campbell with Lurrie Bell, written by R. Leckey Harrison. *Editor’s Note: Since this review was published, Eddie C. Campbell suffered a stroke and a heart attack while on tour in Germany in 2013, leaving him paralyzed on the right side of his body. His wife, Barbara, started the Eddie C. Campbell Assistance Fund to raise money to fly him back to Chicago for further medical treatment. He died in Oak Park, Illinois on November 20, 2018, aged 79. Family…