Author: Steven Ovadia
Recorded between 2017 and 2019 in Biram’s own Austin studio, he covers a lot of different musical genres, lending each one his intense focus.
Johnson’s not breaking too much soul/rhythm and blues ground on her debut, but that’s the point. This is a classic, familiar form and she’s respectfully working within it.
Award winning writer and Grammy nominated musician Dege Legg – aka Brother Dege – recounts five years behind the wheel of a cab while documenting the underworld of Lafayette and its Cajun and Creole hinterlands.
Recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London, ‘Royal Tea’ features honorable nods to his British heroes Jeff Beck, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, and Cream
Churchwood is a blues-loving band breaking the structures and conventions of the genre while still showing their love and respect.
‘100 Years of Blues’ shows that while there’s over a century of playing between the two of them, they still have new things to say.
“I think this one [Below Sea Level] has a couple of things that maybe follow a traditional structure but, I’ve always felt like the blues is a feeling and it’s not necessarily a pattern.”
‘Ordinary Madness,’ recorded right before COVID-19 changed the U.S., is a master class in guitar craftsmanship, every solo a thoughtful journey.
Bonamassa’s two latest projects have him looking back in time. ‘Royal Tea,’ a tribute to the 60s British blues rock that inspired him, and ‘A New Day Now,’ the 20th anniversary reissue of his solo debut
Rayford said he thought 2020 was going to be a breakthrough year for him: “I’m saddened by [the pandemic], and this will sound selfish, but I felt like this should have been my year.”