Encore Records

Sonny Landreth

Elemental Journey

The Louisiana slide guitar wizard’s 11th album is something completely different, his first all-instrumental outing and his most adventurous work to date. “Elemental Journey” features guest stars handpicked by Landreth himself, including Joe Satriani who delivers an astonishing solo on track one, and Eric Johnson.

Dr John

Locked Down

2012 album from the New Orleans legend, produced by Black Keys guitarist and uber-fan Dan Auerbach.

Locked Down distills half a century of this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s picaresque musical history, melding his shamanistic stage persona with the authority of a consummate studio musician, the cosmic conjurer with the street-savvy poet.

Warren Haynes

Live At the Moody Theater

2 CD with DVD

Legendary guitarist / vocalist Warren Haynes and his band take the stage of Austin’s famed Moody Theater for a thrilling performance.

A stunning live concert, recorded last November at the Moody Theatre in Austin, TX, captured in dazzling High Definition state-of-the-art video and 5.1 audio.

Features songs from Haynes’ 2011 Grammy-nominated Top 20 hit album Man In Motion as well as sensational covers including Same Cook’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and many more, Includes special guests Ian McLagan (Small Faces) and The Grooveline Horns.

Walter Trout

Blues For the Modern Daze

Blues For The Modern Daze represents the guitar legend returning to his core Blues roots; creating his first blues album in 23 years as a bandleader.

Trout shares that his inspiration for the album: ‘was the country bluesman Blind Willie Johnson’. His music is so beautiful, primal, direct and deeply spiritual that I wanted to feel it at my back when we were cutting these songs’.

Joe Bonamassa

Beacon Theater - Live From New York

Double DVD or Blu Ray

2012 live release from the internationally renowned guitar superstar. Special guests include vocal powerhouse Beth Hart, legendary singer/songwriter John Hiatt and classic rock star Paul Rodgers.

Joan Osborne

Bring It On Home

For Bring It On Home, Osborne once more digs into the soul, blues, and R&B wellspring.

Co-producing with Jack Petruzzelli and using her road band, a horn section, and guests, she turns in the rawest, most kinetic moment in her recording career thus far.

The choice of material is stellar.

Ultimately, there isn’t a performance here that isn’t drenched with passion and a true stylist’s sense of invention.

This isn’t a reverential recording; it’s authoritative; she makes these songs her own. Bring It On Home carries Osborne’s mature voice in way that’s never been heard on her studio recordings, making it stand head and shoulders above them.

Roy Buchanan

Live From Austin, TX

There is so little professionally shot video footage of Roy Buchanan officially available, that this frustratingly short half-hour set is a major find for the late guitarist’s devoted fan base.

Recorded November 15, 1976 when he was 37.

These five tunes find the Telecaster master at his most potent. He doesn’t wait to pull out his bag of tricks, such as playing leads with his left hand while drinking a beer with his right and using it over the fret fingerings to alter the sound of his guitar, doing both on the opening “Roy’s Blutz.”

Most of the songs had been in his live set for many years, but that doesn’t diminish the power and sheer intensity of his string bending on “Sweet Dreams” and a closing version of “The Messiah” that will leave viewers slack jawed.

Albert Collins

Live From Austin, TX

CD & DVD set.

Recorded live in 1991.  Features songs not on the original tv broadcast. 

The CD and DVD both contain the complete performance.

BB King

Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2011

CD, DVD or Blu Ray.

On June 28, 2011, B.B. King played to an adoring sold-out crowd at London’s spectacular Royal Albert Hall.

It was another unforgettable night in the career of one of the most legendary bluesmen to ever pick up a guitar.

Joining the illustrious Mr. King onstage were guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, songbird extraordinaire Susan Tedeschi, The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood, Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall and former Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash.

Bo Diddley

Black Gladiator

Digitally remastered edition of this 1970 album from the Rock ‘n’ Roll pioneer.

While the ‘60s came to a close, Diddley may have been working at a less prolific pace than during his earlier heyday, but the man was certainly charged up and ready to drop a full-blown musical bomb.

The album would modernize his Blues-Rock sound with a rugged Funk edge, while retaining the spirit and humor of his finest work, and feature an album cover of the man donning a bodacious leather belt/pseudo S&M get up that would put Isaac Hayes’ chain link vestments to shame.