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Dogs & Bones is six tracks of swampy, smokey, hard driving blues-rock. The band has a sweet stripped down style…

Four Aces and a Harp is an uncompromising blues album that puts it’s best foot forward. It’s no surprise that the album is simply great; it’s packed with some of the biggest blues talent in the industry.

I think it’s safe to finally say it: Buddy simply can’t make a bad album. “Living Proof” is an iconic Buddy Guy release.

Eden Brent is the “blues diva” boogie piano master who’s been all over the blues scene for the past few years. Last year, Eden won the Pinetop Perkins Piano Award from the Blues Foundation, and one listen to her latest album “Ain’t Got No Troubles” will quickly show any listener exactly why.

Nick Moss has been well known for playing a traditionally-steeped Chicago blues for years, but his latest album, “Privileged”, is blues with a distinctive rock flair.

These Brazilian men can sing the blues! The Igor Prado Band has a wonderfully tight, crisp arrangement that sounds as though it was forged from years in the clubs of Chicago.

From the great New York City blues player Chaz DePaolo comes “Bluestopia”

Let’s get to the gravy: buy Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan “In Session” if you love the blues.

Lee Pons is an up-jumped-the-devil rockin’, rollickin’ New Orleans blues piano player. His latest CD, Big Boogie Voodoo from Mind Balm Records is piano-filled bliss.

I’ve often heard the word timeless tossed around while describing the music of blues artists. I can’t really think of a more fitting word to use that would sum up James Cotton’s latest release on Alligator Records “Giant”.