Author: American Blues Scene Staff
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…
Calypso Rose’s zest for life is as infectious as ever, and 2022 will mark the return of the icon to center stage. The 82-year old Trinidad and Tobago-raised musician has announced her latest album, FOREVER, due August 26, 2022 via Because Music. Throughout the new album, Rose presents original material with a distinctly modern approach, and revisits some of her greatest classics, giving us an album that speaks to everyone and transcends all ages. On FOREVER, the Queen of Calypso is joined by old friends and new artists throughout the fourteen tracks including: world music legend Manu Chao, soca king…
With a howling and unholy mix of punk rock and the blues, Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club exploded on the L.A. club scene in the early ’80s. By 1984, the band had gone through a few lineup changes and expanded their musical palette to deliver The Las Vegas Story, their most diverse effort to date. Now the album is back as a super deluxe two-CD/DVD and double-vinyl set, containing a digitally remastered version of the original 11-track album produced by Jeff Eyrich. Both the vinyl and CD versions feature a bonus disc with 10 live tracks recorded at…
Arlan Schierbaum — whose credits include Joe Bonnamassa, Beth Hart, John Hiatt, Richie Kotzen and Janiva Magness — added Hammond organ remotely from his studio in Greece.
Daniel Ivankovich is better known in the blues community as “Chicago Slim,” both as the leader of the Chicago Blues All-Stars, and often playing guitar around town. But Ivankovich is also a trauma/spine surgeon, who heads OnePatient – Global Health Initiative, a nonprofit that specializes in musculoskeletal health and wellness and serves residents of underserved communities throughout Chicago. Dr. Daniel Ivankovich Photo: Dr. Karla Ivankovich When COVID hit in 2020, Ivankovich had to put his musical career on hold because many of his colleagues went MIA – because they didn’t want to step up. But when his patients from underserved…
Check out the official video for fun title track “Free.”
Premiering today is the live performance video for “Last Breath,” the first song to be released from upcoming live album ‘Glendale Or Bust’