This is an impressive EP in that Ranky Tanky is able to put across a sound that many of us don’t have a convenient mental shorthand for.
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In addition to the publication of ‘Weeds Like Us,’ she will be releasing her 15th album, ‘Change In The Weather,’ on September 13 with Blue E´lan Records.
‘Fillmore West ’71,’ culled from an epic weekend of live music recorded at the legendary San Francisco venue.
When you think of historic Chicago blues and R&B labels, Chess, Vee-Jay, Brunswick, and Delmark probably first come to mind. However, the city’s famous Black music scene spawned many indie labels.
Of Hooker’s innumerable recordings, the Riverside session is perhaps the truest to his Mississippi roots.
“I’m thrilled and honored to be back with my friends at SiriusXM,” says Copeland.
“‘LEMONADE’ is the best CD I have ever done with the best musicians I have ever had the pleasure to work with, Bob Malone, Doug Belote and Carl Dufrene Jr. So there!”
It sounds like Rein was born on a blues club stage with a guitar in her hands and a rocking band behind her.
“I think you have to argue as a school founded on Jazz, Jazz was founded on Blues.”
The bluesy, richly textured “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” was written by Abair and Tyrone Stevens and is a haunting dig through the wreckage of love lost and the attempt to reclaim inner strength.