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Month: June 2018
The nomination process is now open and concludes on July 3rd, 2018. All newly elected board members will be expected to serve a three year term, beginning on October 1st, 2018.
It’s brand spanking new music with an ingenious old school feel. ‘Believe’ is musical craftsmanship taken to the nth degree.
On ‘City Soul,’ Russ Green creates a smooth blues album. It’s the blues, but there are no rough edges. Instead, it’s a solid album of great harmonica playing and solid vocals.
“This is American roots music, and it’s blues, boogie, jazz, swing, stride, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, gospel, all those things.” – “Boogie” Bob Baldori
One of the greatest sidemen in the history of blues music, Matt “Guitar” Murphy died last night. He was 88.
The Delta Saints are a band with a big, eclectic sound that encompasses past, present, and future. They’re sonically rich but not dense, rooted in the roots but not cliched, and darkly bluesy without being overwrought.
There is a familiarity to ‘Chasing Shadows’ that put us right at home from the very first. But then we played it again, and again, and discovered new delights each time.
“My goal is to let the younger generation really see what the blues has been and what it can be. To keep the music popular and create a resurgence, the blues needs the young people.” – Keith Dixon Nelson
“Willie Mae” features the rich Mississippi vocals and guitar of Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry supported by Corritore’s playful harmonica dance and the nimble drumming of Malachi Johnson.
Powers has crafted a straight-forward album with an honesty and intensity that makes it feel huge.