Browsing: Ruf Records

This is blues, people. Make no mistake. You just have to think of blues rock with a nitrous injection. Put your preconceptions aside and turn it up!

Just after the announcement that he would be leaving Royal Southern Brotherhood, Zito sat down with ABS to discuss in detail what really happened, moving forward, and knowing himself.

The fourteen tracks on Solid Ground give you plenty of sonic pleasure to enjoy. Castiglia and company have given us an engaging performance, and this album is a real winner.

Pick this up as soon as you can get your hands on it! This is a delightfully sophisticated, rocking, funky, 55 minute smorgasbord of sound that will be schooling folks for years to come.

Song number one is called “Miles To Go” it is as rocking as they come these days while still staying under the blues umbrella.

Mike Zito has Gone To Texas and we should all be thankful he did. This album is about making a choice to start over, facing and conquering inner demons, and being reborn.

With wit, intensity and thoughtful words, “Bliss Avenue” is an album that will bear play after play and then discussion as it is an open conversation from the lonely directed to the listener.

Royal Southern Brotherhood Member Steps Out on New Solo Album with Special Guests Delbert McClinton, Sonny Landreth, Susan Cowsill and Others!

After a blowout jam with the boys of Royal Southern Brotherhood to end the night, Sam swung by the back porch to talk about her explosive career, winning a Blues Music Award, and unsuccessfully trying to buy fireworks in England!

For those that haven’t had the pleasure of finding themselves in a southern juke joint, this album will show you what your life’s been missing. Red floats between slow-droning and searing harmonica fused with mean, mean licks.