Jim Hynes

This past November vocalist, composer and producer Vivian Sessoms released Life, her first full album in ten years, to much acclaim and now the much-anticipated companion, Life II, follows. It’s

Canadian singer-songwriter Lucette bears her soul on her sophomore release, Deluxe Hotel Room, produced by Sturgill Simpson. Checking in at a mere 29 minutes, this music is so searing and

Jimmie Vaughan honed his clean, note-driven guitar style with the Fabulous Thunderbirds in the ‘80s and together with his brother Stevie Ray, Robert Cray, and very few others brought a

We hailed Joanne Shaw Taylor (JST) as “several cuts above the rest” of the blues-rock artists on her previous album, Wild, with Joe Bonamassa’s band. Now the British born and

Great Divides is the fifth album for the Seattle-based alt-country rockers Massy Ferguson (MF), who, for lack of a better reference point, are the Pacific Northwest’s version of the Drive-by

These past couple weeks, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival web stories were all about big name headliner acts. Of course, The Rolling Stones were due to play there

The Memphis-born, Chicago blues legend Johnny Shines is captured here at a live show at Washington  University’s Graham Hall in St. Louis In 1973. The recording, now titled The Blues

Don’t let the name fool you. The Seattle-based Barrett Martin Group (BMG)is not a law firm or a real estate office. Of course, it’s not, but the staid nature of

Mention The Last Poets to most people and the likely responses are “You mean that group from the ‘70s?” or “Yeah, they were part of that whole spoken word thing