Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival DVD

  Fat Possum Records will release the Memphis ’69 documentary film, capturing three days and two nights of the sweltering, interracial 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival, held within weeks of a KKK rally at the same location. Full song...

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Dance Songs For Hard Times

    The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band are the greatest front-porch blues band in the world. They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier finger picker playing today. He has earned a reputation as both a...

LARKIN POE - PAINT THE ROSES

  2021 release. Innovative hybrid orchestra Nu Deco Ensemble brought their genre-bending orchestral music to fans around the world through their 2020-2021 virtual performance season including a collaborative concert with Larkin Poe on December...

CHRIS BARNES - BADNEWS RISING

     Chris BADNEWS Barnes and Grammy Award-winning producer, Tom Hambridge, have teamed up for Barnes’ first ever original blues album, BADNEWS RISING. This is Barnes’ third release with Vizztone Records. All ten original...

JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR - THE BLUES ALBUM

2021 release. The reigning UK Queen of blues rock guitar, Joanne Shaw Taylor releases The Blues Album, produced by blues rock icons Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith. The Blues Album finds Joanne energetically reinterpreting hidden gems from the genre's...

DWAYNE DOPSIE - SET ME FREE

Set Me Free is a soulful take on classic Zydeco, given extra bite with an infusion of swampyBlues. All the music and lyrics were composed by Dopsie, aka Dwayne Rubin, save for one, andperformed by his band the Zydeco Hellraisers: Dwayne on accordion and...

SUE FOLEY - PINKY'S BLUES

  PINKY'S BLUES is a raw, electric guitar driven romp through the backroads of Texas, with Foley's signature pink paisley Fender Telecaster, ''Pinky'' at the wheel.   Pinky's Blues is a guitar driven collection of 12 songs, both original and...

COLIN JAMES - OPEN ROAD

With a vault full of songs written over the past two years, both on the road and then in lockdown, it was a tough choice to select just 13 for this album. Colin James and his co-producer Dave Meszaros managed to set up three full band sessions in...

CAROLYN WONDERLAND - TEMPTING FATE

    With incendiary guitar chops and raw, powerful vocals, fiery Texas blues rocker Carolyn Wonderland draws instant comparisons to fellow Texans Stevie Ray Vaughan and Janis Joplin." ::: Blistering guitarist, fire-breathing singer and...

Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town

    Internationally beloved soul-blues rocker tells a timeless tale of young man bitten by the blues bug. He masters the craft and sets out for fame and fortune, only to realize that what he left behind is what he's been looking for all...

HECTOR ANCHONDO - LET LOOSE THOSE CHAINS

     Let Loose Those Chains is the acoustic album Hector Anchondo always wanted to make. Winning First Prize in the solo/duo category of the Blues Foundation's 2020 International Blues Challenge provided the inspiration, so Hector...

TAS CRU - BROKE DOWN BUSTED UP

GABE STILLMAN - JUST SAY THE WORD

     

DAVE KALZ - RELISH

  Gulf Coast Records founder and artist, Mike Zito, signed his old friend Dave Kalz for his debut solo album. Dave Kalz was a founding member of Devon Allman's Honeytribe, which toured as the opening act for Devon's father, Gregg Allman, and also...

SAMANTHA FISH - FASTER

  On her 2021 album Faster, Samantha Fish joins forces with super producer Martin Kierszenbaum (Lady Gaga, Sting) and imbues even more intensity into her electrifying brand of blues/rock-and-roll. With Fish accompanied by legendary drummer Josh...

NATHANIEL RATELIFF RED ROCKS 2020 2 CD SET

  Red Rocks 2020 covers an amazing range of music from Rateliff's celebrated career, music that had never been performed together live before the ill-fated tour including several jewels from And It's Still Alright, and Rateliff solo albums, In...

Southern Avenue - Be The Love You Want

Memphis soul powerhouse Southern Avenue release their third full-length album. Be the Love You Want was produced by multi-Grammy® winner, Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, Deer Tick, Susan Tedeschi, Jackie Greene), and co-produced by Ori Naftaly. Be the Love...

ALTERED FIVE BLUES BAND - HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME

   

AL BASILE -B'S TESTIMONY

  13 new songs by Al Basile, with the full band and horn backup he's used for years before the piano trio of his last release. As producer he's overseen a new and improved version of his perennial sound. Tracks: 1. Lucky Man [3:31],...

BILLY JONES & THE DELTA OUTLAWS

   

BRAD VICKERS AND HIS VESTAPOLITANS - THE MUSIC GETS US THOUGH

   

PAUL THORN - NEVER TO LATE TO CALL

Some years ago I happened to see Paul Thorn performing on an outdoor stage at a street festival in the heart of a small Mississippi town. Suddenly, in mid song, Thorn stopped playing and looked down at the upturned, sugar-splattered face of a fan on the...

ROGER CHAPMAN - LIFE IN THE POND

   A studio album by Roger Chapman is always an event. Since '66, when the British singer-songwriter emerged as the voice of his generation with the seminal Family band, through every twist of his four-decade solo career, Chappo's output has...

JONATHON LONG - PARABLES OF A SOUTHERN MAN

   

TITO JACKSON - UNDER YOUR SPELL

   California-based Tito Jackson is supported on his debut Blues album by an array of superlative special guests - George Benson, Joe Bonamassa, Marlon Jackson, Eddie Levert, Kenny Neal, Bobby Rush and Stevie Wonder, who all add their special...

TONY HOLIDAY - PORCH SESSIONS VOL 2

Following his 2019 Blues Blast Music Award nominated album, Porch Sessions, Tony Holiday returns with more field recordings for a second volume. Recorded at various destinations across the United States, an all-star cast of his blues friends are featured...

MICK KOLASSA - WASTED YOUTH

     

BLUES TRAVELER - TRAVELER'S BLUES

     They recorded this album with Producer Matt Rollings in Nashville, TN last year. Check out 2 new songs from the album below. The upcoming Blues Traveler album Traveler's Blues, which will be composed entirely of Blues cover songs...

GA -20 Does Hound Dog Taylor

     Blues music is revered for it's timelessness. The best blues - no matter how old - sounds as fresh and visceral today as it did when first recorded. The high-energy electric blues trio GA-20 - guitarist Matt Stubbs,...

Tiffany Pollack & Co. - Bayou Liberty

     Following her award-winning duet album, Blues In My Blood, Tiffany Pollack traveled from her Crescent City home to the Bluff City with a mission to combine the best of both musical influences into her own unique sound. Pollack's...

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND - LAYLA REVISITED (LIVE AT LOCKN') 2CD'S

   Layla Revisited (Live at LOCKN') captures Tedeschi Trucks Band at their incendiary best, together with Phish's renowned guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio. Recorded August 24, 2019, the performance of the legendary album in it's entirety was...

Now Serving: Royal Tea: Live From The Ryman

     2021 live release. Blues-rock superstar Joe Bonamassa set out to perform his music for fans amidst a global entertainment shutdown. This led to an incredible live concert at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. This...

SEAN CHAMBERS - That's What I'm Talkin About

  Recorded in March 2020 just before the coronavirus shut everything down, the Florida-based Chambers went into Showplace Studios in Dover, New Jersey, for the sessions of his 8th album. That’s What I’m Talkin About was...

JOHNNY WINTER - Guitar Slinger

    The first of Grammy Award-winning blues and rock icon Johnny Winter's celebrated Alligator releases, with over 100,000 sold in the U.S. alone. This reissue has one song from the original release removed (Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye), and a...

VAN MORRISON - Latest Record Project Volume 1 2 CD SET

  Van Morrison will release ‘Latest Record Project: Volume 1’ on May 7th on Exile/BMG. His 42nd record and his most dynamic and contemporary album in years, ‘Latest Record Project: Volume 1’ is a 28-track delve into his...

VALERIE JUNE - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers

 2021 release. The follow-up to Valerie June's widely adored The Order of Time-a 2017 effort that earned the admiration of Bob Dylan and landed on best-of-the-year lists from the likes of Rolling Stone and the New York Times- The Moon and Stars:...

CRYSTAL THOMAS - Now Dig This!

  2020 Living Blues Award Winner Crystal Thomas steps out front with a super-star band that includes Lucky Peterson, Chuck Rainey and The Moeller Brothers.   Tracks Credits 1 I Don't Worry Myself 2 I'm a...

MERRY CLAYTON - Beautiful Scars

2021 release. Merry Clayton is a living legend of unparalleled solar-powered vocal majesty, boldly bringing the Black American church experience across musical genres and styles. Throughout an astounding career - as a lead and background singer with the...

CHRIS SMITHER - More From The Levee

2020 release. More From The Levee is the 18th album from iconic bluesman Chris Smither. Deemed "one of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world" (Associated Press), the album is a brilliant continuation of Smither's 50-year retrospective album,...

David Kimbrough Jr. - Say You Don't Love Me: The Last Recordings of David Kimbrough Jr.

David Kimbrough Jr., son of the legendary Junior Kimbrough and passed away on July 4th 2019, was absolutely one of the most talented Blues musicians in his age who inherited and developed the musical tradition of his father, Cotton Patch Soul Blues. This...

SCRAPPER BLACKWELL - Collection 1928-61 2 CD SET

 Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell was a blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter from South Carolina, who was primarily active during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he did all his early recordings, but re-emerged during the folk-blues boom...

CHRISTONE "KINGFISH" INGRAM - 662

     

Alligator Records—50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin’ Music 3 CD SET

 Blues Music Online June 14, 2021  Click the cover to read the feature.     - Disc 1 - 1 Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers-Give Me Back My Wig (3:31) 2 Koko Taylor-I'm a Woman (4:36) 3 Big Walter Horton...

EARLY TIMES & THE HIGHROLLERS - THE CORNER

     

WILDCAT O'HALLORAN - YOU CAN'T FALL OFF THE FLOOR

The Wildcat O'Halloran Band has been thrilling audiences in Western Massachusetts for over twenty years, and is currently promoting its 14th album “NYC Chill"... building on the success of the last five: "Hot Pulldown", "Midnight Service...

TOMISLAV GOLUBAN - EXPRESS CONNECTION

     

STEVE MARRINER - HOPE DIES LAST

     

Rodd Bland and the Members Only Band - Live on Beale Street: A Tribute to Bobby "Blue" Bland

     

JOHNNY TUCKER FEATURING KID RAMOS & THE ALLSTARS - 75 & ALIVE

     

TERESA JAMES - ROSE- COLORED GLASSES VOL 1

     

JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL - NATURAL BORN HUSTLER

     

WEE WILLIE WALKER W/ THE ANTHONY PAULE SOUL ORCHESTRA - NOT IN MY LIFETIME