By now most of us are familiar with the great blues-based music, oft trance-like music that emanates from the war-torn, chronically divisive Mali in West Africa. You know the artists
Last year the young vibraphonist/composer Joel Ross not only made his Blue Note debut which landed on our Glide 20 Best Jazz of 2019 List along with similar recognition in
Uncivil War continues to expand the socially conscious singular combination of blues and Americana that has now defined the powerful blues vocalist Shemekia Copeland. As we’ve heard on her recent
Singer-songwriter-producer, multi-instrumentalist Will Kimbrough is not one to sit idle. Throughout the pandemic, he has been regularly holding virtual concerts from his home, dubbed Pollenfest, constant streaming and blogging through
Go ahead. Look again at that title: Bernstein very deliberately left off the question mark. Surely, it’s a phrase we have all uttered more than we care to recognize during
For the better part of two decades now, blues singer-songwriter, harmonicist and top vocalist John Nemeth has delivered some great soul-blues albums. Yet, his relocation to Memphis seven years ago
The term ‘avant-garde blues band’ is an intriguing one, because it doesn’t immediately bring very many names to mind. In their own experimental style, Churchwood has carved out a rather
Take Me Back marks the return of harmonica/vocalist/songwriter Kim Wilson to M.C. Records after 17 years. It was on that label that he recorded Smokin’ Joint and Lookin’ for Trouble,
When this writer first heard Colorado-based cornetist Ron Miles it was with the bluesman and fellow Coloradoan Otis Taylor with whom Miles appeared on at least six, if not more,
The folk ensemble Darlingside impresses in their live shows by their versatile musicianship, keening four-part harmonies, and witty banter between songs. Seeing the four of them clustered tightly singing through
