Browsing: Conqueroo

“We’re back! Out of the house and in the groove again! I’ve had some precious time with my family and even got in some songwriting and recording during the pandemic. I’m excited to be coming to a town hopefully near you!” – Ruthie Foster

Full-length, ‘Dance Songs for Hard Times,’ produced by Vance Powell (four-time Grammy Award winner, veteran of Chris Stapleton and Jack White) spent two weeks at #1 and seven weeks in the Top 20 on the Billboard Blues Chart

CD box set tells the story of an important and long-overlooked regional music scene of the 1940s and ’50s
Contains 472 audio tracks on 16 CDs and a 352-page hardcover book featuring artist biographies and details about recording in Washington,

local record companies, radio and TV, and venues.

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Bobby Rush, Shemekia Copeland, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and Keb’ Mo’ are among the masterful musicians vying for honors at virtual program presented by The Blues Foundation

‘Little Girl Blue’ features Simone’s first big hit, “I Loves You, Porgy,” as well as her memorable renditions of “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” “Love Me or Leave Me,” and “Mood Indigo”

“Bob could usually be found behind the counter. And he took hours over the years to answer my ceaseless barrage of questions — about blues artists, blues bars (which I was too young to enter legally), record labels, record distribution, record collecting.” – Cary Baker

The Mighty Roots Music Festival is very much a reboot of Mighty Mississippi festival in a new location — Stovall Farms, the place where Muddy Waters grew up and was first recorded.

‘Nina Simone: The Montreux Years’ and Etta James: The Montreux Years’ uncover rare and previously unreleased performances by the musical icons

“Curtis Mayfield was the guy that I always idolized. I always gravitated toward Black music when I was a kid. My roots were always in Black music.” – James Holvay

The lion’s share of the album was written by candlelight and then, with the encouragement of 4X GRAMMY-winning producer Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White) recorded using the best technology available . . . in the 1950s.