Vacation!

Matt Lomeo - When You Call

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 47:06 
Size: 108,2 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Blues/Soul Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. One More 1&1 - 3:41
 2. Unsentimental You - 2:53
 3. Accepting Applications - 3:35
 4. She Was the Best - 3:53
 5. When You Call - 4:35
 6. Got a New Woman - 3:44
 7. Take the Boulevard - 4:03
 8. Outside of a Song - 3:17
 9. Why Do I Cry - 2:40
10. Van Nuys Blues - 4:33
11. Took My Bar and Left Me - 4:53
12. When You Call (Reprise) - 2:05
13. 27 - 3:07

WHEN YOU CALL is Matt Lomeo's first full length, all-original effort. Produced by Grammy-nominee Terry Wilson (Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps), When You Call is a Blues-based baker's dozen filled with stirring vocals, innovative harmonica solos, and backing from a band of crack Los Angeles session players. It is slated for release June 24, 2022 with support from Frank Roszak Radio Promotions.
Featuring:
Matt Lomeo-harmonica/vocals
Billy Watts-guitar (Eric Burdon, Mojo Monkeys, Teresa James)
Terry Wilson-bass/co-writer 5, 8, 11, 12 (Teresa James, Eric Burdon, Jimmy Reed, Backstreet Crawler)
James Cruce-drums and percussion (J.J. Cale, Eric Clapton, John Hammond)
Teresa James-piano and vocals
Kevin McKendree-B3 and wurlitzer
Darrell Leonard-horns
Paulie Cerra-tenor sax

When You Call

Patrick McLaughlin - Just Like the Record

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 39:54 
Size: 91,9 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Modern Electric Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Big Sky - 3:10
 2. Bar Room Dream - 3:44
 3. First and Last of Me - 2:52
 4. So Alive - 3:19
 5. Everybody's Broken - 3:22
 6. Life Is - 3:33
 7. Soul Serving - 3:39
 8. I'll Talke the Rest - 3:22
 9. No Stone Unturned - 3:12
10. Same River Twice - 3:17
11. Drive Me to Drink - 3:50
12. Island Neon - 2:28

Just Like The Record is a culmination of a creative journey and captures the many facets of Patrick’s artistry at a high level. Each song builds excitement by using various stylistic textures allowing the listener to take part in a new encounter. The songs feature fresh collaborations and instrumentation, and some of Patrick’s finest songwriting. “I make it a rule for my latest record to never sound like my previous one. This album was built to sound different. None of the songs sound the same, and I love the idea that each song is a stylistic surprise,”

Just Like the Record

Main Street Blues - Bluest Blue

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2018
Time: 63:07 
Size: 146,0 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Dusty Road - 5:51
 2. Write If You Find ove - 6:50
 3. The Same Thing - 7:00
 4. Good Day For The Blues - 5:57
 5. Last Dirty Deal - 5:01
 6. Move On - 9:03
 7. Cold Cold Bed - 5:21
 8. Get Back Home To You - 4:26
 9. The Bluest Blues - 7:26
10. Breaking Up Someone's Home - 6:08

It’s taken a while for me to get round to it, but on the strength of Bluest Blue, this summer's release from Main Street Blues, their moniker is a good pointer to the style of this Scottish blues band. Their sound, to these ears at least, descends in a pretty straight line from the Three Kings, through the British blues boomers influenced by them, and on to later exponents of sophisticated electric blues.
The ten-track collection mingles three originals from guitarist and singer Derek Smith, a few familiar covers, and some less common or garden finds from other artists, and it has to be said that Smith’s homegrown material stands up to the competition. The first of these, the mid-paced ‘Dusty Road’ opens proceedings with gutsy chords and washes of organ to underpin Smith’s vocals, which are mellow and tuneful in a Clapton/Cray vein – it comes as no surprise that they’ve covered Eric’n’Bob’s ‘Old Love’ on a previous album.  Smith’s guitar tone is one of his strengths, here and throughout, while John Hay’s five-string bass bubbles away contentedly and Iain Hanna’s keys solo fits in nicely. It all boils down to a pretty good marker for what’s to follow. With ten songs lasting over an hour, you’ll appreciate that Main Street Blues like to lay back and spread out a bit, but they still succeed in making the time pass by without any dull longeurs.  There are a couple of seriously extended workouts in there, with over nine minutes’ worth of Smith’s own composition ‘Move On’, and title track Alvin Lee’s ‘The Bluest Blues’ coming up on the rails.  Smith’s tone on the former is excellent, contributing to the mood as he demonstrates good variation in pace on an extended solo, while Hanna contributes meditative organ and, by the sound of it, some subtle synth for additional textures. On the latter Hanna’s keys are also well to the fore, with delicate piano contributing to an imaginative, widescreen arrangement, while Smith’s vocals combine good phrasing and expressiveness.  His guitar could be higher in the mix though, and one of my reservations is that sonically they would sometimes benefit from more – to use a technical term – wallop.A good example would be their reading of Coco Montoya’s ‘Last Dirty Deal’, which features a stinging riff with a very Sixties feel, and tasteful bass from Hay, but could do with more grit vocally, and with the guitar being a bit more in yer face to capture the bitterness of the lyric.  But on the other hand Smith’s ‘Cold Cold Bed’ effectively combines gritty guitar chords and surges of organ with a touch of funk and a bit more vocal edge. The two familiar friends in the track list are Storyville's ‘Good Day For The Blues’, which has a tripping rhythm and sunny air to match its winning melody, and an uplifting keys solo from Hanna that melts into Smith’s guitar, and the covered-by-everybody ‘Breaking Up Someone’s Home’, which comes with a fresh, Clapton-ish arrangement that’s all stuttering riff, shuffling rhythm and spangly guitar.It’s worth noting that due to a bit of a Spinal Tap-style exploding drummer syndrome, MSB were without a sticksman during the recording of the album, and so opted for drum programming by Smith to fill the void.  And generally he does an impressive job of it, though on the aforementioned ‘Cold Cold Bed’ the groove gets a tad predictable, and on ‘Breaking Up Someone’s Home’ the drum sound could be a bit thicker.Between them Smith and Hanna provide enjoyable bursts of soloing throughout, the latter demonstrating a fondness for Jon Lord-meets-Booker-T organ playing on the likes of ‘Write If You Find Love’, while on Willie Dixon’s ‘The Same Thing’ Smith conjures up a sparkling solo that moves through some revved up chords into a piercing second section and then a lyrical segment dovetailed with the keys – and with good vocal phrasing to boot.
Bluest Blue is a well satisfying take on modern electric blues with a classic British bent.  It won’t take you on a journey to the centre of the universe, but it will keep the home fires burning.

Bluest Blue

Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues (Live)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 76:39 
Size: 176,0 MB 
Label: Reprise
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock/Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Blues All Day Long - 4:19
 2. Standin' Round Crying - 4:51
 3. Forty-Four - 4:17
 4. It Hurts Me Too - 3:18
 5. Early in the Morning - 5:05
 6. Five Long Years - 5:22
 7. Crossroads - 6:18
 8. Malted Milk Blues - 2:46
 9. Motherless Child - 3:24
10. How Long Blues - 3:24
11. Reconsider Baby - 3:39
12. Sinner's Prayer - 3:49
13. Everyday I Have the Blues - 4:50
14. Someday After a While - 3:43
15. Have You Ever Loved a Woman - 6:51
16. I'm Tore Down - 3:25
17. Groaning the Blues - 7:10

The previously unreleased live performances on 'Nothing But the Blues' serve as a vital counterpart to 'From The Cradle', which was recorded in the studio. While several songs appear on both ('Motherless Child', 'Standing 'Round Crying', and 'I'm Tore Down'), the performances are entirely different. The release also includes songs that did not appear on From the Cradle, including Jimmy Rogers', 'Blues All Day Long', and Robert Johnson's 'Malted Milk', as well as the standards 'Every Day I Have The Blues' and 'Forty-Four'.

Nothing But The Blues (Live)

Janiva Magness - Hard To Kill

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 49:14 
Size: 112,9 MB 
Label: Fathead Records
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Strong As Steel - 4:09
 2. The Last Time - 4:34
 3. Don't You Forget About Me - 3:27
 4. Fireman - 3:27
 5. Lover Girl - 4:20
 6. Comes Around - 4:48
 7. You And Me - 3:22
 8. I'm Still Here - 4:26
 9. Right Here - 3:29
10. Closer - 4:01
11. Standing On The Moon - 3:48
12. Oh Pearl - 5:18

Singer-songwriter-author Janiva Magness makes a forceful return on June 24 with the release of Hard to Kill, the Los Angeles-based musician’s first new collection in three years, on her own label Fathead Records. The seven-time Blues Music Awards recipient (and the 2009 B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, the Blues Foundation’s highest honor) and 2016 Grammy Award nominee will simultaneously release the Fathead audio book edition of Weeds Like Us, her frank, profoundly moving 2019 memoir. Los Angeles composer and musician Matt Cartsonis produced.LA Weekly named the volume its “Book of the Month,” while No Depression said, “[Magness] plumbs her own emotional depths, carrying us with her through her own hells and back to the other side. Ultimately, Magness’ memoir is a story of hope and the refusal to let the worst experiences of life kill you.”
Magness, who co-wrote four of the dozen new compositions on Hard to Kill, says of her boldly honest and affecting new collection of songs, “I feel like it’s a retrospective — not just of my musical life, but of my life. At this point, with what I’ve been through in my life, top to bottom, you know what, the gloves are off, and the rules are, there really aren’t any rules.” The musician sees a direct link between her new album — which leads off with the autobiographical track “Strong As Steel” — and her book, an unflinching and shattering look back at a life shaken by physical and sexual abuse, the suicides of both her parents, years in foster care, drug addiction and alcoholism, and teenage pregnancy and motherhood. It also details the beginnings of her distinguished musical career, for which she found early inspiration in the work of such blues titans as Otis Rush and Etta James.
“I like true stories,” Magness says. “My dad said something to me a long time ago; the meaning of it has changed over time, as things like that do, if we wake up. He said, ‘The truth will set you free.’”
Sitting on the bedrock of blues, soul, and funk, the music on Hard to Kill is so tough and assured that it comes as a surprise when Magness says she was initially uncertain about undertaking the making of a new album. She recalls, “Coming out of the pandemic, I had gotten to a pretty dark place.” She chuckles, adding, “I laugh, because how is that a surprise? Is this news of some kind? I’d gotten there just as many of us had, and I had lost myself.” Magness turned the corner creatively after her husband suggested that she should talk things over with Dave Darling, her longtime producer, guitarist, and friend. “He’s a scrapper like me,” Magness says of Darling. “He’s pragmatic. I said, ‘I don’t know if I can do this again. I don’t know if I should.’ And he goes, ‘Of course you should.’ I said, ‘But why?’ And this sounds really simple and stupid, but he said, ‘Because it’s what you do. Because it’s what we do, as artists, and you are a f___ing artist. So cut it out.’” Magness began writing new material in the spring of 2021. Looking back, she now realizes that her new songs were tied to the intense memories and feelings she had exposed in Weeds Like/
Hard to Kill is bracketed by the album’s most powerful and personal songs, which Magness penned with her Australian collaborators Lauren Bliss and Andrew Lowden, whom she describes as “incredibly intuitive writers.”  “Strong As Steel,” the source of the album’s title, is a statement of survival and a potent and bluntly honest look back at Magness’ wild and chaotic younger days. “Oh Pearl” is a naked song written as an open letter to the singer’s daughter, whom she gave up for adoption as a 17-year- old unwed mother. She says of the latter track, “It’s part of my amends. One woman who heard it said, ‘This song is for all mothers who have troubled relationships with their daughters, for all of us birth mothers who have given up their children.’”  “I’m Still Here,” which draws its title from a passage in Weeds Like Us, was co-written by Magness and Annie Mack, who also collaborated on the album’s first single, “Don’t You Forget About Me,” and “Closer.”
Producer Darling wrote or co-wrote six of the album’s songs. The arrangement of one, the buoyant “Lover Girl,” conjures up Magness’ Minneapolis roots, and the style of the artist who was perhaps the city’s greatest musical product.
The album is rounded out by a cover of “The Last Time,” authored by songwriter’s songwriter John Hiatt. 

Hard To Kill

Nick Evans Mowery - Owners and Pickers

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 24:46 
Size: 57,0 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Blues Rock/Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Tired Ole Man Blues - 3:15
 2. My Whole World - 3:50
 3. Owners and Pickers - 3:11
 4. Sing Your Song - 2:13
 5. Fried Bologna Sammich - 2:33
 6. C'mon Now - 3:55
 7. Walk a Thin Line - 3:10
 8. Reindeer Fly - 2:36

Nick Evans Mowery “Owners and Pickers” released on 4.27.2022 and reached #5 on the iTunes Blues Albums Chart.  Song “Tired Ole Man Blues” peaked at #13 on the iTunes Blues Singles Chart. Song “Walk a Thin Line” was featured on The Young & The Restless 05.18.22.   
Nick Evans Mowery is a singer/songwriter/producer living just outside of Nashville, TN.  NEM music has received placements in many hit Television Shows and Movie Soundtracks since 2010.  All music was written and produced by NEM @ Tangent Boy Studio in Murfreesboro, TN.

Owners and Pickers

Kevin Brown - Time Marches On

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1992/2000
Time: 46:42 
Size: 107,8 MB 
Label: Taxim Records/Doodah Records
Styles: Blues Rock/Pop Rock/Americana
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Trouble Ahead - 3:57
 2. Is It All For Nothing - 5:22
 3. Dallas - 3:19
 4. One of Those Nights - 3:13
 5. Two Sides To Every Story - 4:24
 6. Down On 6th Street - 3:54
 7. You Can Do That - 3:57
 8. Hard Working Man - 4:29
 9. Only Just A Matter of Time - 3:55
10. Strong Heart - 3:57
11. Your the One - 6:10

Kevin Brown (born 1950) is an English blues guitarist, songwriter and singer. His main genre is the blues, although he has spread out his style to incorporate country, folk, Americana and world music over an almost forty-year professional career. He has released twelve albums to date, which included collaborations with Moussa Kouyate and Gary Rudd. Performing from the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival to the bars of Texas, Mark Knopfler stated that Brown "offers far more than your average slide player".
Tales of the life of this long established troubadour set within the inspirations he finds in his travels and times with friends from around the globe. He offers a variety of genres to create musically rich backdrops to his tales of the road.

Time Marches On

Supersonic Blues Machine - Voodoo Nation

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 61:19 
Size: 141,4 MB 
Label: Provogue Records
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Money - 3:42
 2. Too Late - 3:27
 3. Coming Thru - 5:33
 4. You and Me - 5:50
 5. Get it Done - 3:54
 6. 8 Ball Lucy - 5:32
 7. Devil at the Doorstep - 7:58
 8. Is it All - 5:14
 9. Do it Again - 3:15
10. I Will Let Go - 5:22
11. Voodoo Nation - 6:58
12. All Our Love - 4:29

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release featuring special guests Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke), Eric Gales, Joe Louis Walker, Ana Popovic, Kirk Fletcher, King Solomon Hicks, Josh Smith, and Sonny Landreth. "The general discontent in the world at the moment is so widespread, we get told to embrace it because that's life," says bassist Fabrizio Grossi. "No, that's not life," he asserts. "It's how we're forced to live nowadays. Voodoo Nation refers to the times we're living in, at least here in the States, but I guess the whole world can relate. We're getting to the point where we're living out life almost as Zombies. We're little machines." But there is always hope, which is what Supersonic Blues Machine has always been about.
Blues trio Supersonic Blues Machine – which comprises bassist Fabrizio Grossi, drummer Kenny Aronoff and new guitarist Kris Barras – have announced their new album Voodoo Nation, for which they’ve assembled a gallery of blues guitar heavyweights.
Due June 24 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group, Voodoo Nation will see the trio line up alongside Eric Gales, Kirk Fletcher, Josh Smith and Ana Popovic, as well as King Solomon Hicks, Joe Louis Walker, Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr and slide legend Sonny Landreth, over the course of 12 new tracks.
To whet the whistle for what’s in store, Supersonic Blues Machine – who are no strangers when it comes to recruiting guitar A-listers – have dropped the record’s lead effort, 8 Ball Lucy, which is treated to Landreth’s silky slide playing.
Said to be the story of how it’s “easy to fall into temptation when you're broken down”, 8 Ball Lucy introduces a swashbuckling, swampy progression by way of some rumbling bass activity and immediately identifiable slide action.
Throughout the track, Landreth decorates proceedings with some quasi-improvised chordal and lead line embellishments – which weave between Barras’ own snappy six-string soundbites – before letting loose on an extended gain-laden solo at the 2:40 mark.
“The general discontent in the world at the moment is so widespread, we get told to embrace it because that's life," said Grossi in a statement accompanying the Voodoo Nation news. "No, that's not life. It's how we're forced to live nowadays.
“Voodoo Nation refers to the times we're living in,” he continued, “at least here in the States, but I guess the whole world can relate. We're getting to the point where we're living out life almost as zombies. We're little machines."
Of the involvement of Barras, a British player who was drafted to replace Lance Lopez, Grossi noted that the personnel shake-up prompted the trio to explore “Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Gary Moore” influences in favor of the “West Coast Funkadelic ‘60s and overall jam vibe” of their previous offerings.
“Kind of a Union Jack imprint over a Star-Spangled Banner,” he offered.
When it arrives, Voodoo Nation will be Supersonic Blues Machine’s third studio album and first since 2017’s Californisoul, which itself featured a bounty of high-profile players, including Robben Ford, Steve Lukather, Billy Gibbons and Walter Trout.
Californisoul followed the band’s 2016 debut, West of Flushing, South of Frisco, which tapped Warren Haynes, Billy Gibbons, Chris Duarte, Walter Trout, Eric Gales and Robben Ford.
"I'm not saying, 'Fuck flower power,' because that's always the message," Grossi added. "But there are very introspective things and a lot of the theatrics that we are dealing with on this record, which I would say are fairly common in the blues but are dealt with a twist. There is a lot of Devil's stuff in this record."

VooDoo Nation

T. Blade And The Esquires - I'm A Business Man

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1987
Time: 37:13 
Size: 86,3 MB 
Label: Tone Cool 
Styles: Blues/Rock/Modern Electric Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front+Back 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Hour Of The Wolf - 3:07
 2. I'll Be Dead - 3:45
 3. I Laughed So Hard, I Cried - 4:47
 4. Trapezoid Whirl - 3:46
 5. I'm A Business Man - 4:58
 6. Held For Questioning - 3:36
 7. Wildchild - 3:35
 8. Supersonics - 2:32
 9. Dogs Of Love - 3:06
10. A Place In Your Heart - 4:01

There is no information about the album. Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff took part in the recording of the album.

I'm A Business Man

Danny Kalb - I'm Gonna Live the Life I Sing About

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2009
Time: 56:05 
Size: 128,9 MB 
Label: Sojourn Records
Styles: Electric Blues/East Coast Blues/Blues Rock/Rock/Folk/Harmonica Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. I Wish You Would - 3:49
 2. Slippin' and Slidin' - 4:13
 3. You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover - 3:34
 4. Mean Old World - 6:15
 5. Gotta Get Goin' Again - 2:34
 6. Danville Dame - 3:44
 7. I'm in the Mood - 3:32
 8. Shame, Shame, Shame - 3:28
 9. Crazy Girl - 3:36
10. I'm Gonna Live the Life I Sing About in My Song - 3:12
11. Shake Sugaree - 3:23
12. Samson & Delilah (If I Had My Way) - 4:58
13. Baby Please Don't Go - 5:11
14. Lazy Afternoon - 4:30

Danny Kalb, born on September 19, 1942 in Brooklyn, NYC, USA, is a guitarist and an original member of The Blues Project, formed in 1965. He has also worked as session musician, performing with such folk singers as Judy Collins, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. Kalb and the blues ethnomusicologist Samuel B. Charters formed The New Strangers. He joined Dave Van Ronk's The Ragtime Jug Stompers in 1963. Inspired by the African-American bluesmen Son House, Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt, Kalb experimented with acoustic and electronic music. In 1965 The Blues Project performed an eleven-minute rendition of Muddy Waters's "Two Trains Running" in electronic form, with Waters in the audience. Personality clashes, drugs and the lifestyle of the 1960s took their toll on The Blues Project, Steve Katz and Al Kooper left to form Blood, Sweat And Tears. In 1968 Danny Kalb released "Crosscurrents" with Stefan Grossman. Kalb was fairly quiet for the next twenty years, but joined Al Kooper for a Blues Project reunion, recorded at The Bottom Line in 1996. He currently performs solo acoustic gigs, plays acoustic and electric music with the Danny Kalb Trio, including Bob Jones (8) on acoustic bass and Mark Ambrosino on drums, and occasionally performs with Stefan Grossman and Steve Katz and with his brother Jonathan Kalb. At the age of 76, Danny Kalb is still active as guitarist on the vintage early Gibson J-200 with which he began his career in the 1960s, and besides that he also produces, mix and master music for other artists.

I'm Gonna Live the Life I Sing About

Little Jr. Cannaday - I Been Misused

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2005
Time: 45:17 
Size: 104,4 MB 
Label: No Cover Records
Styles: Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. I Been Misused - 5:40
 2. Real Old Lady - 3:34
 3. The Sky Is Cryin - 6:22
 4. I Got My Eyes On You - 2:51
 5. Let Me Love You Baby - 2:56
 6. Little Blackbird - 3:58
 7. Everybody Likes What I Got - 3:01
 8. Easy Baby - 4:57
 9. Blues At Midnight - 4:46
10. Old Girl - 4:06
11. Old Girl (Inst.) - 3:01

Detroit, Michigan, USA area American blues guitarist. Born June 29, 1934 in Lula, Mississippi, USA. Died May 17, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Learned guitar from his dad, Thomas Cannaday, Sr. Moved to Chicago, Illinois, USA and then to Detroit, Michigan, USA. He performed around Detroit at extended gigs at joints like the Apex Lounge, the Parrot Lounge, the State Fair Lounge, Cooley’s Bar, the Black & Tan, the Soup Kitchen, etc. He lived on the east side of Detroit & had two wives & six children. David Ruffin of the Temptations got his start singing with Little Junior Cannady at the Black & Tan club.

I Been Misused

Beverly Jo Scott - Honey & Hurricanes

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1991
Time: 51:28 
Size: 118,7 MB 
Label: Columbia
Styles: Blues Rock/Pop Rock
Art: Front+ Back 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Sing It Out - 5:42
 2. Crazy Lazy - 4:40
 3. Hey Nanna - 3:54
 4. 10.000 Dragons - 4:14
 5. Glory - 4:14
 6. O'Desire - 4:14
 7. Burn - 3:43
 8. Child - 3:48
 9. Whiskey Blues - 4:44
10. Lafitte's In Exile - 4:25
11. Heavenly Lover - 4:03
12. C'est Extra - 3:43

Beverly Jo Scott (born May 15, 1959), also known as B. J. Scott, is an American-born singer-songwriter living in Brussels, Belgium.
Born in Deer Park, Alabama, Beverly Jo Scott grew up nearby in Bay Minette, where, as a teen, she began singing. She moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, then to California and, ultimately, in 1982, to Europe after a trip to Brussels, Belgium, resulted in her living there.
In Europe, she has regularly performed in France and Germany at festivals and large music halls. In 2010, she performed Planet Janis, a touring tribute show to Janis Joplin. She also released Swamp Cabaret, a one-woman multimedia show focusing on the Gulf Coast.
In June 2011, after living 30 years abroad, Scott performed in her home state of Alabama at the Saenger Theatre in Mobile, as part of a Live at Space concert series.In September 2011, Chickfest's featured artists included Scott, who Press-Register Entertainment described as building "a thriving career in Belgium over the last three decades, but maintains a legion of fans back home, thanks to the earthy passion of her music."  She co-wrote "Rhythm Inside" with Loïc Nottet, who represented Belgium with this song in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Scott also hosts BJ's Sunday Brunch, a radio show, on Sundays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., on Brussels-based French-speaking radio station Classic 21.

Honey & Hurricanes

Big Pete - Choice Cuts

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2011
Time: 55:37 
Size: 128,5 MB 
Label: Delta Groove Music, Inc.
Styles: Blues/Harmonica Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Driftin' - 6:38
 2. Can't You See What You're Doin' to Me (feat. Alex Schultz) - 3:47
 3. Act Like You Love Me (feat. Kim Wilson) - 3:15
 4. Just to Be With You (feat. Kirk Fletcher) - 3:50
 5. Don't Start Crying Now (feat. Alex Schultz) - 2:49
 6. I Got My Eyes on You (feat. Al Blake & Alex Schultz) - 4:52
 7. Hey Lawdy Mama (feat. Kirk Fletcher) - 4:05
 8. I Was Fooled (feat. Shawn Pittman) - 5:12
 9. Rockin' Daddy (feat. Kid Ramos) - 3:24
10. Left Me With a Broken Heart (feat. Johnny Dyer & Rob Rio) - 4:23
11. Just Your Fool (feat. Rusty Zinn) - 4:09
12. Chromatic Crumbs (feat. John Marx & Alex Schultz) - 4:30
13. I'm a Business Man (feat. Paul Oscher) - 4:37

Dutch blues vocalist and harp master "Big Pete" van der Pluijm made his informal introduction to the U.S. market back in March 2010 as one of the many special guests who appeared on The Mannish Boys' 5th anniversary album "Shake For Me." Now Holland's best kept secret makes his official American solo album debut supported by an amazing collection of blues talent featuring Kim Wilson, Paul Oscher, Al Blake, Johnny Dyer, Alex Schultz, Kirk Fletcher, Kid Ramos, Rusty Zinn, Shawn Pittman, John Marx, Mojo Mark, Rob Rio, Willie J. Campbell and Jimi Bott. An instant classic not to be missed by anyone who considers themselves a true blues lover.

Choice Cuts

Matt "Gonzo" Roehr - Dead Slow

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 46:05 
Size: 106,3 MB 
Label: Gonzomusic Record Co.
Styles: Rock/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing: 
 1. Temporary Love - 5:07
 2. For My Sins - 4:35
 3. Goodbye - 3:49
 4. On My Own - 4:12
 5. Keep You - 4:32
 6. Dead Slow - 3:20
 7. Same Old Song and Dance - 4:48
 8. Only You - 5:36
 9. Time of My Life - 4:00
10. 1976 - 6:01

Whenever it comes to the exceptional German guitarists who defined or reinvented the genre with their playing, his name (with the exception of a few specialist magazines) is guaranteed not to be mentioned. And this despite the fact that he must be there urgently. Matt Roehr, the "gonzo" of Germany's most famous and most successful rock band, BÖHSE ONKELZ, has been this guitarist almost since his teenage years. Socialized in the province of Hesse in the mid-70s with a bluesy, jazzy and rough rock-black sound that was played on the radio on AFN and played by American DJs such as "Wolfman" Jack. B.B. King, John Lee Hooker. Johnny Winters. Such calibers. Inspired by the big rock bands that are still successful today: AC/DC and KISS. Or artists whose golden years are long gone, but who were of great importance to the young Matt Rehr at the time: Ted Nugent, for example. His live album "Double Life Gonzo" ran up, down, down and up again until Roer knew every word and learned every chord. Even then, he played the electric guitar in his own bands. HEADLINER, SINNER, ANTIBODIES.
More details here: https://gonzomusic.com/

Dead Slow

Bergen Blues Band - Bergen Blues Band

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1980
Time: 39:43 
Size: 93,0 MB 
Label: Harvest
Styles: Blues/Electric Blues/Blues Rock/Harmonica Blues
Art: Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Jump 'n shout 'n Dnce - 3:27
 2. Truckdriver - 3:47
 3. Airport Blues - 4:16
 4. Sixteen Months of Hard Work - 3:35
 5. Brand New Microfon - 3:11
 6. Hungry John - 1:39
 7. Depression - 2:25
 8. Hey Mama - 3:18
 9. Talkin' 'Bout Blues - 5:18
10. Bad Condition - 4:17
11. Behind My Back - 4:25

The band was founded and led by John Magnar Bernes (vocalist and harmonica player, alias «Hungry John»), along with Per Jørgensen on guitar (replaced by Ole Thomsen in 1981), Kåre Sandvik on piano (1974-81), Edvard Askeland bass (replaced by Rune Rønning in 1981, and later Atle Mjørlaug 1983), and Frank Jakobsen drums (replaced by Willy Korneliussen in 1976). Zoltan Vincze joined the band together with Per Jørgensen in 1983.Bluesband from Bergen, started in 1974 by John Magnar Bernes, better known as Hungry John . Initially, the band would only have a job at Nattjazzen in Bergen that year, but demand became so big that it became a solid band. The first crew consisted of Bernese (vocals, harmonica), Per Jørgensen (guitar), Kåre Sandvik (piano), Edvard Askeland (bass) and Frank Jacobsen (drums). The latter ended in 1975 and later became a member of Cutting Edge . New drummer was Willy Cornelius. This crew was reinforced with a blowjob on the debut album Bergen Blues Bandin 1980. This was an impressive high-quality blues record, recorded in Bergen Lydstudio with Trygve Thue as producer, and contained eleven original compositions by Bernes. Within the next release, three of the members had quit: Jørgensen, Sandvik and Askeland went out, came Ole Thomsen (guitar) and Rune Rønning (bass). This quartet made Another Blues (1982), again with eleven original compositions. Within plate number three was made, the band had changed both style, crew and name. The ensemble now went under the name of Hungry John with his Bergen Blues Band, and the crew spoke six: Bernese, Cornelius, Thomsen, Atle Mjørlaug (bass), Per Jørgensen (now on cornet) and Zoltan Vincze (saxophone). The eleven original songs clearly showed that several of the members usually played jazz. Early in 1985, Bernes chose to dissolve the band to launch a new, more rocket blues band called The Blue Shadows. Everyone who was in Bergen Blues Band has been very strong in Norwegian music life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Blues_Band).

Bergen Blues Band

Bill Perry - Raw Deal

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2004
Time: 44:50 
Size: 103,3 MB 
Label: Blind Pig Records
Styles: Blues/Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Bluesman - 3:27
 2. Big Ass Green Van - 4:20
 3. Harlem Child - 2:53
 4. Live On - 4:23
 5. Another Man - 4:00
 6. Terrorists - 3:42
 7. Going Down To Memphis - 4:05
 8. Til The Money Runs Out - 3:14
 9. Paper Dragons - 3:42
10. Man On The Side - 3:37
11. Gotta Serve Somebody - 7:22

Musicians:
Bill Perry -vocals, guitar; 
John Redden - guitar; 
Dave Keyes - Hammond b-3 organ; 
Tim Tindall - bass guitar; 
Popa Chubby - guitar, background vocals; 
Rob Curtis - drums.

Producer and fellow New Yorker guitar slinger Popa Chubby effectively captures Bill Perry's sharp licks and road hardened style on the appropriately titled Raw Deal. The sound is sufficiently unrefined, as is Perry's raspy voice, on this set of searing originals, tempered by a handful of terrific covers. Lyrically the stereotypical life of a "bluesman," told in rather clichéd detail on "Bluesman," ("no insurance, can't get sick") "Big Ass Green Van" and "Going Down to Memphis," doesn't help propel these otherwise well written and arranged songs past established boundaries of the blues-rock genre. "Terrorists," Perry's anti-Iraq war entry, fares somewhat better. Regardless, it's his relentless guitar solos that give this music its guts, and that is where Perry excels. His tone is as gritty as his voice, chewing through this material with licks that reach out and grab the listener, and then pull back into the track. Perry is a master of succinct, fluid lines and has the sense to know when to stop playing, a trick too many in his field haven't mastered. His playing has the tightly wrapped feel of a caged lion before feeding time. A scorching version of Tom Waits' "Til the Money Runs Out" drags the track down to its urban blues roots, and a closing take on Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody" brings muscle to the tune's slow boil gospel groove. "Harlem Child" also looks at urban blight, and it's here that Perry's dusky voice and hammerhead guitar strike out with coiled spring intensity. "Live On" takes that hot wired tension and successfully feeds it into a slow R&B pressure cooker. Despite hewing close to the boundaries of his chosen genre, Perry nonetheless stakes his territory as a passionate, tough blues-rocker with a killer tone and enough musical twists to prove why he has survived in an arena rife with lesser talents.

Raw Deal

Bill Perry - Don't Know Nothin' About Love

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2006
Time: 52:32 
Size: 120,9 MB 
Label: Blind Pig Records
Styles: Blues/Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Let Me Love You - 4:35
 2. My Baby Loves To Dance - 4:20
 3. Hello Josephine - 4:09
 4. Don't Know Nothin' About Love - 3:49
 5. Ball Of Confusion - 4:07
 6. Leavin' Home - 5:16
 7. Down In New Orleans - 5:30
 8. She's A Burglar - 3:26
 9. Accuse Me Of Lyin' - 3:58
10. Can't Afford To Die - 4:57
11. Waitin' For My Luck To Change - 2:50
12. Are You Experinced - 5:29

On his fourth outing for Blind Pig Records, Bill Perry takes his own brand of modern electric blues and turbocharges it. Perry's songwriting has been developing consistently from the 1990s during his tenure with Virgin's Point Blank label. And while it's true most blues fans only care about that fiery guitar playing of his, the real depth of his writing was revealed on the Blind Pig releases Crazy Kind of Life and Raw Deal. Here, combining tight, tough hooks on tunes like "My Baby Loves to Dance," and the National Steel-driven "I Don't Know Nothin' Bout Love" and "Waitin' for My Luck to Change," actually fall in line with a lyric sensibility that's clever and humorous. The same goes for "Accuse Me of Lyin'," with its gritty R&B feel. While Perry's songs here fall down like hard rain, his covers are unique, too, and there are three. The first is Dave Bartholomew's and Fats Domino's "Hello Josephine" that shuffles and choogles to a midtempo groove with Perry's knotty leads filling in between the lines and a killer, funky wah wah powered guitar solo. The next is Barrett Strong's "Ball of Confusion." If you're thinking, "Why would anybody cover a song that was defined by the Temptations?" think again. Perry's version is unique, almost metallic, its guitars roar. Popa Chubby's production here is straight-ahead, beefy and deep blue funky. Perry sings with conviction and turns the rhythm into a steady plodding rock & roll heartbeat. The bottom line is that Perry strikes again, and the modern blues are luckier for it.(https://www.allmusic.com/album/dont-know-nothing-about-love-mw0000581112)

Don't Know Nothin' About Love

Randy Resnick - To Love

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 44:16 
Size: 102,0 MB 
Label: Each Hit Music
Styles: Blues/Electric Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. What Kind Of World - 3:58
 2. Push Pull - 3:11
 3. To Love - 3:23
 4. Temptation - 3:53
 5. Fool's Paradise Blues - 3:53
 6. Girls Please Girls - 3:47
 7. Dark Design - 3:11
 8. Into The Fire - 4:21
 9. Bidness is Bidness - 3:00
10. Woman In White - 4:54
11. African Queen Of The Parisian Night - 3:41
12. Log Jam - 2:58

Randy Resnick is an American guitarist and saxophonist who has played with many prominent blues and jazz musicians, such as Don "Sugarcane" Harris, John Lee Hooker, John Mayall, Canned Heat and Freddie King. He was developing both one- and two-handed tapping style in the early 1970s. He published a CD of his own music in 1995, "To Love" under the name Randy Rare.  In 2020, he began publishing new music, much of it on saxophone, on the streaming platforms like Spotify, Tidal (service) and iTunes under his own Each Hit label.
Resnick was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Resnick began his career playing in Minneapolis clubs, moving to Los Angeles in 1968. There he met drummer Paul Lagos who was working for the band, Kaleidoscope. Lagos eventually introduced Resnick to Canned Heat bassist Larry Taylor and violin player Don "Sugarcane" Harris. The four musicians formed a band called Pure Food and Drug Act, based on Sugarcane's blues/jazz violin and singing. It was during this period that he developed his tapping technique. Victor Conte replaced Taylor on electric bass after a few concert gigs. Victor Conte went on to play with Tower of Power, along with guitarist Bruce Conte, his cousin, and then for Herbie Hancock in his Monster Band. Sugarcane Harris died in 1999 in California. Paul Lagos died on October 19, 2009, in Minneapolis, MN. After quitting the PFDA, Resnick went on to play with John Mayall and recorded the album The Latest Edition, with Larry Taylor on bass, Red Holloway, a seasoned jazz player on sax and flute, Soko Richardson, former Ike and Tina Turner drummer, and Hi Tide Harris sharing the guitar spotlight with a contrasting, simpler bluesy style.[1] This band toured Europe and Asia in 1974. Although the musicians were all talented, the material was lackluster and the album did not sell. He then went on to tour with John Klemmer. Resnick has retired several times, disappearing for 6 to 8 years and resurfacing in strange places like Bordeaux, France where he now lives, and plays his music with a trio based in Paris, France, as well and playing saxophone wherever possible. As of March–July 2021, few if any live gigs are possible. Return to the concert stage, October 2012: Canned Heat leader Fito de la Parra called Resnick to replace Harvey Mandel, who had to fly back to California for a family emergency. He played two dates of the Canned Heat European tour in Bergerac, France on October 4 and Avignon, France October 5th, but was unable to play the rest of the dates because of a prior commitment. Resnick was mentioned in the Eddie Van Halen biography for his contribution to the tapping guitar technique and by Lee Ritenour in the January 1980 Guitar Player Magazine, who saw Resnick use the tapping technique in 1974 at the Whisky a Go Go with the Richard Greene Group. The legendary Ted Greene, from whom Resnick took one lesson, spoke of his tapping technique in an interview given shortly before his death. Greene said in that interview that "he considered Sawyer, along with Jay Graydon and Randy Resnick, one of the real legends of the L.A. guitar scene". In 1965, while working at B-Sharp, a local musical instrument shop, he presented George Harrison of The Beatles with a Rickenbacker 12-string guitar during their 1965 US tour. Photos of this presentation at the press conference were published in photographer Bill Carlson's book "The Beatles!: A One-night Stand in the Heartland". Longtime friend Owen Husney, who discovered Prince and signed him to Warner Brothers, mentions Randy's guitar influence in his 2018 book "Famous People Who've Met Me". It's just possible that Owen wouldn't have discovered Prince had he not split from the band he played in with Randy.  In a 2020 Guitar World interview, John Mayall, asked to name three guitarists who played with him mentioned Buddy Whittington and Eric Clapton, and added, "I’d also have to give a nod here to another favorite of mine who is not that well known, Randy Resnick. He had a remarkable style that enhanced all of the songs we played, and took me to new places."

To Love

Sam Morrison Band - Unfinished Business

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 43:31 
Size: 99,9 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Southern Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Straight Outta Jacksonville - 3:38
 2. Hell Yeh - 3:29
 3. My Reason - 3:49
 4. Who Shot John - 3:25
 5. Man Like Me - 3:46
 6. Unfinished Business - 4:45
 7. Pick Em Up and Put Em Down - 4:06
 8. Reflections - 4:32
 9. Say Can We See - 3:46
10. Live Again - 4:58
11. Turn up the Music - 3:12

100 Proof Southern Rock, played the way it was meant to be....dripping with Jack Daniels and BBQ Sauce! The Sam Morrison Band is on a mission. Tired of all the corporate, “politically correct” processed music that is being spoon fed to the public, The Sam Morrison Band is determined to bring back something that is lost on today’s radio……real music. Imagine that; real musicians, playing real songs, with real instruments for real people. No drum loops, no DJ’s, just 100 proof Rock and Roll.Steeped in the Southern Rock tradition of bands such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers, The Sam Morrison Band is proud to carry on the message of true American values. Themes such as pride in God, Country, and the American Dream run throughout their music.The two things you’re not supposed to talk about in polite company are “religion and politics”. This is a CD Charlie Daniels and Ted Nugent would be Proud of! Musically it’s all about “100 Proof Southern Rock…dripping with BBQ Sauce”. Boasting a new Three Guitar Line Up the guys are carrying on in the tradition of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet. In a time where pop music has all but forgotten the art of the guitar solo, the SMB is more than happy to “show y’all how it’s done!” Willie Nelson said once “Don’t write a song if you’ve got nothing to say”. “Well we took that to heart”, says Morrison. “We’ve covered a lot of topics that mean a lot to us as a band. Whether you agree with us or not, we’re proud of our stance and we ain’t changing!” So set back, crank it up loud and Dig It …Or Don’t! Real Songs, Real Music……………The Sam Morrison Band!
Two Years in the making.....Surviving computer crashes, car wrecks, and the complete shutdown of the world as we know it.....It's ready!
We've really drawn hard from a lifetime of Southern Rock to create a sound that is absolutely our own but also feels like an old friend!
The title track, "Unfinished Business"  is something every hard-core Southern Rock fan is gonna LOVE. Let's just say.....there was a little more to the Story about that Golden Fiddle .........it's a True Southern Rock Fantasy and as the dream comes to life, it makes you feel like you were there! (www.sammorrisonband.com)

Unfinished Business

Harrison Kennedy (with special guests Ruthie Foster and Colin Linden) - Thanks for Tomorrow

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 39:31 
Size: 90,8 MB 
Label: Electro-Fi Records
Styles: Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. All I Need is You (feat. Ruthie Foster & Colin Linden) - 3:24
 2. Easiest Thing (feat. Colin Linden) - 3:39
 3. Thanks for Tomorrow (feat. Colin Linden) - 3:33
 4. On Call Man - 3:23
 5. Women - 2:41
 6. Checkin' You Out - 2:56
 7. Crazy Love - 3:39
 8. Memphis Trippin' (feat. Colin Linden) - 3:52
 9. Cranky Woman (feat. Colin Linden) - 3:39
10. Doomed - 3:31
11. You Lost Me (feat. Colin Linden) - 2:56
12. Just Wanna Play - 2:14

Award winning Bluesman Harrison Kennedy is back with 'Thanks For Tomorrow' featuring a rollicking duet with special guest Ruthie Foster, backing Harrison on the album is Roots guitar master Colin Linden and the rhythm section, Gary Craig (drums) and Johnny Dymond (bass) from Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. Best known as a founding member of the million selling 70's soul supergroup Chairmen of the Board, Harrison continues to mine his deep Blues roots on the 12 original songs which comprise 'Thanks For Tomorrow'. Co- Produced by keyboard ace Jesse O'Brien (Levon Helm). ' Ingenious Original Blues of Charm and Individuality' - MOJO magazine.This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.

Thanks for Tomorrow

Greg Nunan and The General Jacksons - This Is A Recording

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 38:16 
Size: 88,0 MB 
Label: Red Denim Records
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Give Her Something - 3:11
 2. She's Coming Home - 3:56
 3. Hustler - 4:22
 4. Trouble - 5:20
 5. Be Like Water - 4:52
 6. Grass Is Greener - 5:12
 7. Lemonade - 2:58
 8. Lazy Liar - 4:17
 9. Borderline - 4:08

World traveller, singer, guitar-slinger Greg Nunan has spent the last decade bringing his Stevie Ray Vaughan-inspired blues rock thing to Australia and the world, honing his chops as resident band in the Crazy Elephant Bar, Singapore’s home of the blues - and making a hard-earned living up and down the Aussie east coast.
Greg's guitar riffs are as colourful as his songwriting and his performances kindle the senses with the baking of bread at his shows. Performance at Festivals such as SXSW in Austin Texas (Australia's first online virtual sets for SXSW), Peats Ridge, Manly Jazz Festival, Peaches & Cream Festival, Coffs Harbour Food & Wine Festival, Wangaratta Jazz Festival and Singapore's Boys Toys Festival have been highlights amongst playing different clubs, pubs and blues cruises over the years. Four times invited to front the famous Blues Machine at Singapore's world renowned Crazy Elephant Bar has seen Greg jam onstage with Deep Purple, members from Royal Crown Revue and Bette Midler’s horn section.
Influences - Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, J.J. Cale, Jimi Hendrix, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Fabulous Thunderbirds
Weapons of choice - 1954 Fender Stratocaster reissue (thank you Colin), AER and Fender Amps
Favourite Quote: "It's your world we just live in it"
Favourite Record: Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan

This Is A Recording

Andy Robson & Urban Fox - Be Forgiving

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 61:37 
Size: 141,4 MB 
Label: Timezone
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Be Forgiving - 6:13
 2. Old Friend - 5:46
 3. Shake It Off - 7:06
 4. Wall Of Ignorance - 5:45
 5. Can You Soothe Me? - 6:52
 6. Devil's Pie - 6:29
 7. Guitar Man - 4:01
 8. Make My Dyin' Easy (Dedicated To Wayne) - 7:06
 9. My Father's Hands - 6:13
10. Empty Mirrors - 6:02

"When Blues meets Rock and they both meet the Groove" ...that's the best way to describe the sound of Andy Robson & Urban Fox.

Be Forgiving

Bob Margolin And Bob Corritore - So Far (with special guest Jimmy Vivino)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 45:15 
Size: 107,7 MB 
Label: VizzTone
Styles: Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Steady Rollin' On - 2:50
 2. Running Through High Water - 4:32
 3. It Makes No Difference - 5:42
 4. Outrage And Inrage - 3:00
 5. Now And Then - 2:28
 6. Broken Heart - 3:47
 7. Salt River Stomp - 2:25
 8. One Hundred Hearts Later - 3:28
 9. Red Hot Kisses - 3:14
10. What If? - 3:24
11. Blessings And Blues - 2:34
12. I Wanna Go Home - 4:42
13. My Little Machine - 3:05

Already well-known in the Blues World, Bob Margolin and Bob Corritore collaborate on an acoustic duo album for the first time. Special guest guitarist-vocalist Jimmy Vivino graces two songs. Bob M wrote seven new songs and Bob C marches an original instrumental. They also cover some of their favorite songs. Bob M's 1935 acoustic guitar and Bob C's un-amped harp reveal personal, intimate performances informed by decades of friendship and gigs together. It started when Bob Corritore saw Bob Margolin playing in Muddy Waters' band at his high school in 1974. Now here they are, So Far. 
Bob Margolin vocals and guitar, and Bob Corritore harmonica are both previous Blues Music Award winners. Corritore who holds eight nominations overall, won a BMA for “Historical Album of the Year” in 2011. Bob Margolin has 13 nominations overall and has won five which is an impressive percentage. Margolin has won for “Guitarist of the Year”, “Album of the Year”, and “Traditional Blues Male Artist”.
Special guest Jimmy Vivino has one nomination. A song he co-wrote with John Hahn called “It Makes No Difference”. The song is sung by Vivino who sounds exactly like Rick Danko of the band who sang on the original. Vivino also plays guitar on a Bob Margolin original “Running Through High Water”. Other Margolin originals are equally impressive including “Steady Rollin’ On”, “Outrage and Inrage” loosely based on Robert Johnson’s “Terraplane Blues”, “Now & Then”, “One Hundred Years Later”, “Blessings and Blues” and others. Margolin also contributes the instrumental “Salt River Stomp” written by Corritore. Covers include Muddy Waters’ “I Wanna Go Home” and Sonny Boy Williamson’s “My Little Machine” (https://www.amazon.com/So-Far-Bob-Margolin-Corritore/dp/B09XL6QLRV).

So Far

Ghost Hounds - You Broke Me

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 32:44 
Size: 75,0 MB 
Label: Maple House Records
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Baby We're Through - 3:56
 2. Smokestack Lightning - 3:58
 3. You Broke Me - 4:10
 4. Willie Brown Blues - 3:36
 5. Through Being Blue Over You - 3:51
 6. Still You - 2:59
 7. On Your Trail - 2:31
 8. Lonesome Graveyard - 4:21
 9. Through Being Blue Over You (Acoustic) - 3:17

Blues-rock band Ghost Hounds have announced their new blues album, You Broke Me, out May 13th via Maple House Records. Written and produced by guitarist Thomas Tull and songwriter, producer Kevin Bowe (Etta James, Paul Westerberg and the Replacements), the 9-track album is raw yet polished, making listeners feel as though they were in the room while it was being recorded. Between the use of sharp electric guitar, the plucking of piano keys, the vibrations of a harmonica, and Tre Nation’s impassioned vocals, each track only leaves you wanting more. “Being able to play the type of music that we want to hear always leads us back to the core of not only rock and roll, but music rooted in blues generally,” guitarist Johnny Baab says. “As a band, we’re always trading music between us and more often than not, the songs we’re sharing are these deep cuts from the beginning of recorded music as we know it. This record is exemplary of both of those things. We’ll all get in a room and cut the songs live and see how it fits for the band. We’ve got a few covers and a bunch of originals on this record born from that process – and can’t wait for you to hear them.” Their new single, “Smokestack Lightning,” is a striking cover of the original by Howlin’ Wolf. Ghost Hounds’ interpretation brings a breath of fresh air to it, as the nature of the track holds an electric and infectious energy that’ll have you playing it on repeat.
Of the single Baab says, “It’s a tune that just drives on the one chord with a powerful message of trying to skip town with a hope for better days ahead. Like Wolf said, ‘Well, Smokestack Lightning means it’s a train … that, uh, runs on the rails, you know.’ We agree.”
Earlier this year Ghost Hounds released the first remarkable single from, You Broke Me, entitled “Baby We’re Through.” In September 2021, Ghost Hounds released their sophomore album, A Little Calamity, which they played on a 7 night run last fall with The Rolling Stones. The thirteen track record features the self-aware single, “Half My Fault,” the nostalgic, “Good Old Days” and their striking first single, “Between Me and the Devil.” At the top of 2020, the band had just finished a year of touring and decided to hole up in the studio together, feeling as though their collaborative spark was reaching new heights. What happened next can only be described as a musical conversation as each member blazed brighter than ever, while they worked on what would become their second album.
As if baptized in the Mississippi Delta and blasted through Birmingham’s billowing smokestacks, six kindred, yet individual musical spirits congregate in Ghost Hounds. The Pittsburgh, PA sextet—Tre’ Nation [vocals], Johnny Baab [guitar], Thomas Tull [guitar], Bennett Miller [bass], Blaise Lanzetta [drums], and Joe Munroe [keys]—conjure rock ‘n’ roll with a bluesy bent that’s fiery enough for your vinyl collection and fresh enough to light up any 21st century festival. Ghost Hounds unleashed their full-length debut, Roses Are Black, in 2019. Their single, “Bad News” appeared in the blockbuster adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog. Throughout the year, they opened for Bob Seger on his final tour and the Rolling Stones at FedEx Field in Washington D.C. Receiving acclaim from Billboard, American Songwriter, and more, the group sharpened this signature style on their second full-length offering, A Little Calamity [Maple House Records], led by singles “Between Me and The Devil” and “Good Old Days,” which they played while opening for The Rolling Stones in the fall of 2021.

You Broke Me

Brad Absher and The Superials - Tulsa Tea

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 29:13 
Size: 66,9 MB 
Label: Horton Records
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Be the Love - 3:24
 2. Neutral Ground - 3:39
 3. Goodbye for Now - 3:05
 4. As Hard as I Can - 3:29
 5. Hard Times - 3:41
 6. So Tired - 5:07
 7. Should Be Prayin' - 3:07
 8. Turn It Up - 3:37

Horton Records is a non-profit, 501c-3 music organization based in Tulsa, OK that is dedicated to the cultivation and development of Tulsa area artists and building on the great tradition of music from that region, while fostering and strengthening community through musical endeavors.Brad Absher sounds like the places he’s been. On his ninth album Tulsa Tea, his warm Southern soul music spans Tulsa’s earthy dignity and the swampy carpe diem of Lake Charles. Thundering sax with plenty of swing calls up New Orleans, while gritty grooves nod to Houston, and more subdued moments of empathy hint at time spent much farther away. Like two old friends telling us a story, Absher and his electric guitar trade lines with lived-in familiarity that invites the rest of us to listen––and dance.
Recommended if you like: Taj Mahal, Shinyribs, Keb Mo, Delbert McClinton

Tulsa Tea

Cliff Stevens - Better Days

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 41:59 
Size: 96,7 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Better Days - 3:31
 2. Passion - 3:36
 3. No Room Left - 3:35
 4. I Believe - 3:30
 5. Heard You Knocking - 4:01
 6. Time for Me to Go - 3:35
 7. Light of an Angel - 3:23
 8. I Love You Still - 4:57
 9. True Love - 3:03
10. I Been Thinking About You - 5:15
11. Slim Picking - 3:27

Musicians:
Cliff Stevens - guitar/vocals
Sam Harrisson - drums
Serge Dionne - bass
Eric Sauvé - organ/piano
Pat Loiselle - harmonica
Kim Feeney - vocals

Better Days is Cliff Stevens’ latest album released June 10, 2022. It contains 11 new original songs, ranging from classic blues to country blues to ballads. Here’s what people have said so far about Better Days:
MIDWEST RECORD (USA) – “Swaggering guitar driven blues-rock.”
PARIS MOVE BLUES MAGAZINE (FR) – “Great album– highly recommended!”
JOHN’S BLUE’S PICKS – Terry Parsons (CAN) – “There is a lot of emotion in this record. Hope, love, betrayal and hurt, all beautifully interpreted by a master musician at the pinnacle of his craft.”
ZICAZIC (FR) – “A dozen original pieces in which he combines with inspiration and talent blues rock, slow blues and country blues.”
ROOTSVILLE (BE) – “Stevens expresses what everyone all over the world has become over the past two years, what we have experienced in one way or another.”
Better Days is the fifth solo release by Cliff Stevens, his fourth album in five years. It features eleven new original songs in an array of styles from driving blues-rock, slow classic blues to acoustic country blues. His life journey currently reflects a more personal and introspective style, all the while blending it with a blues rock edge that fans still know and love. In April 2022, Stevens embarked on a 30-day European tour to promote his upcoming release.

Better Days

Cliff Stevens - Nobody But You

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 45:31 
Size: 104,7 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Nobody but You - 4:04
 2. Say What You Mean - 3:59
 3. Little by Little - 4:26
 4. Morning Rain - 4:08
 5. World of Worry - 3:55
 6. Cry Baby - 4:09
 7. Bad Luck - 4:06
 8. Keep My Love Alive - 4:40
 9. Truth Don't Lie - 4:14
10. Come Back - 3:39
11. How Long - 4:05

Blues rock guitarist Cliff Stevens is an award-winning artist from Montreal, Canada. He has played the blues and toured for several decades all over the world. He has released 4 solo albums, each receiving awards and rave reviews: Blues Matters Magazine (UK) – “Stevens is every inch a performer in the same mould as Eric Clapton…this man is totally awesome!” 

Nobody but You

Dave Weld & The Imperial Flames Blues Band (with Special Guest Lil' Ed Williams) - Rough Rockin' in Chicago

Bitrate: 320K/s

Year: 1995
Time: 50:59 
Size: 117,1 MB 
Label: Blues Sting
Styles: Blues/Chicago Blues/Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. All Day Long for You - 5:50
 2. How Do You Measure Love? - 5:23
 3. Tremble, Tremble - 6:17
 4. J. C. - 4:21
 5. Walkin' Straight, Walkin' Tall - 2:54
 6. Stop Breakin' Down/St. Francis - 6:18
 7. Hurtin' by the Hour - 5:15
 8. Lay It on the Line - 5:49
 9. Sweet Shiny Brown Eyes - 4:07
10. Love Me Slow - 4:41

Musicians:
Bass – Mike Sharfe (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 10)
Drums – Ted Harvey, Vernon Rogers (track: 6)
Guest [Special Guest], Vocals, Slide Guitar, Lead Guitar – Lil' Ed Williams (track: 4)
Guitar [2nd guitar], Guest [Special Guest] – Lil' Ed Williams (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 10)
Piano – Danny Nichilo, Harry Yaseen
Vocals, Lead Guitar, Slide Guitar – Dave Weld (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 10)

Dave Weld and The Imperial Flames, an authentic, real deal blues band, high energy with versatile talent, variety, and a cohesive show that includes original driving houserockin blues, boogie and Soul. The originals are classic in nature, the standards are revitalized with striking three part vocal harmony, three vocal stylists, Passionate slide guitarist, Dave Weld mentored from Grammy Winning Master J.B. Hutto and legendary slideman, along with blues diva and two time Rami winner Mona Rose (Monica Myhre), a rock rhythm section consisting of the  creamy voice of Jeff Taylor holding a solid beat on drums and Kenny Pickens blazing on bass.  Also hitting the ivory is Harry YaSeen, tutored by the famous Art Hodes on piano/organ and the Mississippi saxman, Rogers Randle.
"Been hearing great word of mouth compliments about this obscure first release by Dave Weld,an ex original member of Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials. Everything I heard about this CD is true. Solid original songs by Dave Weld,well chosen covers and slashing guitar from Dave,a student of JB Hutto. The production and performances easily transport you to the dingy beer floor soaked neighborhood taverns that were Dave's bread and butter in his years as he came up the ranks of Chicagos' tough blues scene. Today,he's a Delmark recording act with two fine CDs out.But I prefer the high energy raw blues "Rough Rockin In Chicago" on the obscure Sting Records label. If you can find this,do not hesitate to buy it."

Rough Rockin' in Chicago

Dave Specter and Barkin Bill Smith - Bluebird Blues (featuring Ronnie Earl)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1991
Time: 48:19 
Size: 111,6 MB 
Label: Delmark
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
 1. Things I'd Do For You - 3:41
 2. Tell Me What's The Reason - 4:47
 3. Bluebird Blues - 5:46
 4. Wind Chill - 5:26
 5. Get Me While I'm Free - 4:23
 6. Buzz Me - 4:31
 7. Lie To Me - 5:11
 8. Railroad Station Blues - 7:13
 9. Our Course Is Run - 4:02
10. Take A Little Walk With Me - 3:16

Musicians:
Ronnie Earl - Guitar (right channel)
Dave Specter - Guitar (left channel)
Barkin' Bill - Vocals
Bob Stroger - Bass (Electric)
Mike McCurdy - Bass, Bass (Acoustic)
Jon Hiller - Drums
Ken Saydak - Organ, Piano
Deitra Farr (special guest) - Vocals on #9
Red Groetzinger - Sax (Baritone)
Dez Desormeaux - Sax (Tenor)

Dave Specter and Barkin’ Bill Smith will be unfamiliar names to most listeners (as of the release of this album). But the music the two of them generate along with Ronnie Earl, Deitra Farr, and the Bluebirds is a lot of blues, and its contributors all deserve the notice and enjoyment which this set should bring to the creators and listeners respectively.
Dave Specter and Ronnie Earl are together on this excellent recording. They swap solos between Barkin' Bill Smith's smooth baritone vocals. I have to say that as much as I enjoy the guitars, it's Bill Smith that I keep comin' back to this one for. A seasoned singer around the Chicago area since the '50's with roots in the swing blues of Count Basie - think Joe Williams, or Big Joe Turner. The band really swings on more than a couple of songs, like Things I'd Do For You, Tell Me What's The Reason, and Wind Chill. These three excellent musicians are joined by Ken Saydak on keyboards, Bob Stroger on bass, and saxaphonists Dez Desormeaux and Red Groetzinger. Deitra Farr sings on Our Course Is Run. This is great stuff.

Bluebird Blues (featuring Ronnie Earl)

Eagle Eye Williamson - Black Gold Vol. II

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2013
Time: 51:13 
Size: 117,8 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Southern Rock/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Liquid Courage -  4:26
 2. Morning in My Heart -  6:04
 3. Poisonous Ways -  4:29
 4. Wrong Turn -  3:56
 5. This Way for Too Long -  4:00
 6. Forked Tongue -  4:02
 7. Snake Charmer -  5:01
 8. National Deluxe -  3:21
 9. Knowledge of Good and Evil -  3:36
10. Hanblechia: Vision Quest - 12:13

Eagle Eye was born in south Texas and currently resides in Austin, Tx. Eagle plays guitar, drums and sings at the same time during recording and shows. 
"Local Austin musician, Eagle Eye Williamson stopped by Studio 1A on Tuesday and showcased his skills as he tore through his songs with his natural gusto. Williamson has been putting on shows in Austin for quite sometime, as a multi-instrumentalist, there are few that can match him in playing ability. Williamson draws his name from an experience where he lost sight in one of his eyes at the age of fifteen, seeing that many of his blues idols combined their last name to a characteristic about themselves, Eagle Eye was born. Williamson’s music has a sound that has deep, grainy vocals that pair perfectly with his gritty guitar riffs that lead into intricate solos that could melt steel. Williamson’s sound brings up comparisons of Stevie Ray Vaughan as well as Gary Clark Jr., it’s clear that Williamson is a fellow torch bearer in Austin’s blues/rock scene".

Black Gold Vol. II

Mighty Joe Young - Live At The Wise Fools Pub

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1990
Time: 41:04 
Size: 96,1 MB 
Label: QuickSilver 
Styles: Blues
Art: Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Crusin Down Highway 99 -  4:13
 2. Thats All Right -  3:49
 3. Whole Lotta Lovin -  4:13
 4. I Cant Quit You Babe -  4:20
 5. Baby Please -  3:26
 6. Stormy Monday -  4:54
 7. Turning Point - 11:33
 8. Wise Fools Express -  4:32

Frankly, I feel that Mighty Joe Young is one of the most talented guitar players in the country. I used Joe on many sessions because of his ablity to interpret a particular feeling of a song. He has a traditional sound which he is able to mix with a very modern style and he uses this combination to emphasize a mood. I know that Mighty Joe Young always made hnis second home at the Wise Fools Pub, one of Chicago's best known music spots. In fact, people from all over the world come to the Wiuse Fools Pub looking for blues,and that club definitly earned its fine reputation for good music. Wilie Dixon/

Mighty Joe Young (September 23, 1927 – March 27, 1999) was a blues guitarist known for playing Chicago blues. Born Joseph Young in Shreveport, Louisiana, he died in Chicago, Illinois. Though born in Louisiana, Young was raised in Milwaukee. He first began playing in the early 1950s by singing in Milwaukee nightclubs. By the mid 1950s, Young had recorded his first song for Jiffy Records in Louisiana. Before Young became known for his contributions to blues, he was training to become a boxer. Young was one of the busiest sidemen in Chicago from the late 1950s. He was in Otis Rush's band for several years in the 1960s, and played on Magic Sam's albums, West Side Soul and Black Magic. He recorded his own solo album, Blues with a Touch of Soul, for Delmark Records in 1971. Young also worked alongside Willie Dixon, Billy Boy Arnold and Jimmy Rogers. Young's song, "Turning Point", appeared in the Michael Mann feature film, Thief (1981). Young died in March 1999 at the age of 71, from a complication of spinal surgery which he hoped would restore his ability to play the guitar.

Live At The Wise Fools Pub