Category Archives: BLUES

EUGENE “Hideaway” BRIDGES                                                                                                        Live in San Antonio (2009)                                                                                                           Armadillo Records Rock and a Hard Place (2011)                                                                                                   Armadillo Records OK, kiddies… the latest from the almost-Aussie Texan Bridges – I will presume that y’all know who he is… if you don’t, … Continue reading →

LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS: His Life and Blues                                                                       Alan Govenar                                                                                                                              Chicago Review Press (2010) Alan Govenar, author over the decades of many books on Texas music (among other TX subjects), has finally had his Hopkins bio published. It is a tidy tome … Continue reading →

JOHN JACKSON                                                                                                                            Rappahannock Blues                                                                                             Smithsonian/Folkways SFW CD 40181 John Jackson was a man of marvelous abilities as a guitarist, banjo player, and singer/raconteur; Dom Turner will vouch for that any day of the week! He was eastern Virginia born and … Continue reading →

JUNIOR WELLS & THE ACES                                                                                                              Live in Boston – 1966                                                                                                                   Delmark 809 Recorded 16 September, 1966 at Club 47 in Cambridge, Massachusetts is this album’s providence – Junior with his original band when he went solo back in the 50s. … Continue reading →

David “Honeyboy” Edwards                                                                                                              28 June, 1915 – 29 August, 2011 Honeyboy Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi and began playing the guitar locally – he was something of a Zelig in the blues world! He knew and played with folks … Continue reading →

KIRK At the end of February I lost my good friend, Eddie Kirkland at the age of 87. “Who?”, you might ask. Sad, but a common question; Eddie was never a household name – God knows he tried. His career … Continue reading →

MMRF Review – Blue Beat; Double Bay – March 28, 2013 OK, folks. Back-story. The Music Maker Relief Foundation was begun by Tim (& Denise) Duffy in slightly-west-of-central North Carolina in the very early nineties of the past century. As … Continue reading →

MICHAEL ROACH                                                                                                                   Innocent Child                                                                                                                                  Stella Records (STCD 008) Who, you might ask? Roach is an African American musician from the D.C. area who has lived in England for decades, playing and teaching all over Europe. He was a student of … Continue reading →

BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE: The Radio Interviews                                                                 Steve Cushing                                                                                                                          University of Illinois Press (2010) Cushing has been doing his radio show for some thirty years out of Chicago – first on the local NPR station, now nationally distributed. One of the … Continue reading →

VARIOUS ARTISTS                                                                                                                         Groove Jumping!                                                                                                                               Bear Family BCD 17388 AH VARIOUS ARTISTS                                                                                                                               Still Groove Jumping!                                                                                                                           Bear Family BCD 17391 AH Aptly described as “Rockin’ R&B Tracks from RCA’s Groove Label”, these CDs are reboots of two LPs that came out on … Continue reading →