Browsing: Album Review

The Big Payback, due out tomorrow through Blind Pig, is a full helping of horn-driven funk, soul and blues.

For those that haven’t had the pleasure of finding themselves in a southern juke joint, this album will show you what your life’s been missing. Red floats between slow-droning and searing harmonica fused with mean, mean licks.

JJ Grey and Mofro’s new album is deeply impressive Though not necessarily traditional blues, their unique gumbo of roots strains, from blues to soul, to rock n’ roll, is appealing to fans of great music on any level.

“Black Cloud” sports an album cover showing a simple, nondescript cloud that hides a CD bursting at the seams with classic New Orleans and powerful vocals.

Marcia Ball is a force of New Orleans piano playing & a Texas roadhouse fireball! Her new album “Roadside Attractions” from Alligator Records is a pumped-up, gulf coast piano force to be reckoned with!

Blues-rock giant Joe Bonamassa is set to release his 12th full length solo album “Dust Bowl” on March 22nd. The album breaks all the rules of genre, which is everything Joe’s fans have come to expect!

James Kinds, the tried-and-true working bluesman, has recently released Love You From The Top, a righteously soulful album packed with West Side Chicago sound.

In the summer of 2009 the trio played a string of big blues & jazz festivals all over Europe. During…