The well-traveled and prolific Chicago bluesman singer/guitarist/songwriter Johnny Burgin is back with Delmark Records following his 2019 Live, a recording he made while in California. Burgin, of course, has graced
Arriving about two years after the release of the critically-lauded County Seat, Will Stewart’s latest effort Way Gone may be brief but finds him just as relevant. Across just six tracks,
The widely hailed Malian vocalist Oumou Sangaré re-imagines her much-praised 2017 Mogoya, totally unplugged, in live sessions captured over just two days with Acoustic, her eighth album in a 30
This is not your typical mid-career retrospective because Alabama singer-songwriter Grayson Capps is blessed to be married to Grammy-winning producer/engineer, Trina Shoemaker, who not only compiled these 16 songs as
Just one quick listen to the opening title track “The Ridge” and it’s clear that Canadian singer-songwriter has that special touch which is rather remarkable as this is major label
You may know the collaborative album, SMILE, from Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks but may have missed their reprised duet, Orange Crate Art, which Omnivore Records is celebrating with
Forty Days was recorded by Paul Kelly in exactly that very period of time while quarantined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In keeping with the Australian’s ever-so-diverse discography, the album
The title track “I Just Want To Be Horizontal” reminds of that line in Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Help Me’ – “I just feel like laying down.” That, combined with the
Portland-based musician Tommy Alexander has always sounded remarkably like Johnny Cash. From the gruff vocals, stripped of all pretension, to the straight-forward honesty in his lyrics, it’s hard not to
Chicago soul singer Gerald McClendon, the “Soul Keeper,” got a lift from last year’s Delta Roots release, Battle of the Blues: Chicago vs. Oakland, an album that revealed city favorites
