Encore Records

Otis Taylor

Contraband

Otis Taylor isn’t defined by any single category. A musical alchemist and a true innovator, Taylor has never been afraid to experiment beyond the Blues tradition. He’s a master craftsman who has created his own signature “trance blues” style by melding haunting guitar and banjo work, syncopated rhythms and a combination of gruff vocals, shouts and yells with raw passion. Otis Taylor’s Contraband offers 14 compelling originals

Black Country Communion

Live Over Europe

2012 live release from this Rock supergroup featuring Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian. The band is a devastating head-on collision between American and British Rock influences: a true supergroup that delivers a titanic rock experience greater than the sum of its supremely talented parts. Recorded in the German cities of Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. Producer Kevin Shirley explains that this live act could be an awesome force of nature to behold; that promised legendary performances like those of our heroes of Classic Rock.

Uncut / Mojo / The Wire / Classic Rock / The Word / Classic Rock Prog / Terrorizer

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Etta James

The Dreamer

Apparently, Etta James’ musical career ends with The Dreamer.

The legendary vocalist announced a few months back that this would be her final album; she’s retiring from music in order to deal with serious medical issues.

Her musical accompanists include not only her co-producers, but guitarists Leo Nocentelli and Big Terry de Rouen, saxophonist Jimmy Z., trombonist Kraig Kilby, and trumpeter Lee Thornburg.

Her readings of Otis Redding’s “Cigarettes & Coffee” and “Champagne & Wine,” Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “Dreamer,” Bob Montgomery’s country-pop standard “Misty Blue,” Ray Charles’ “In the Evening,” Johnny “Guitar” Watson’s “That’s the Chance You Take” and “Too Tired,” and Little Milton’s “Let Me Down Easy” all contain within them not only their original traces, but the musical experience necessary to bring their subtler, deeper meanings to the fore.

She re-creates these songs not as mere touchstones or mementos from a career, but as signposts to the living, breathing tradition that bears the signature and considerable influence of her life upon them.

Mojo / Uncut

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The Black Keys

El Camino

With the hard-rocking El Camino, guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney conjure up an exhilarating, stadium-sized sound in collaboration with producer and friend Danger Mouse.

El Camino boasts a no-nonsense brilliance: The pace is fast, the mood is upbeat, the choruses unfailingly addictive made for shouting along, preferably in a large, sweaty crowd. A band already at the top of its game has gotten even better.

Mel Brown

Wizard / Blues For We

2 long out of print classics from Mel Brown on 1 cd.

Jeff Healey

Full Circle - Live Anthology

Four disc (three CDs + DVD) live collection from the late Blues/Rock musician.

This special edition package features three very unique concerts (their appearance at the 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival in support of their debut album See The Light, a 1991 performance at Switzerland’s St. Gallen Open Air Festival and a 1995 concert in their home town of Toronto) plus a DVD containing the 1991 Switzerland show.

Black Country Communion

Live Over Europe

The two-DVD live set was filmed with 14 HD cameras and 5.1 Surround Sound during the band’s debut tour in the Summer of 2011. Over three nights, playing to packed venues in the German cities of Hamburg, Munich and Berlin, the 18-song set list (17 originals and one cover) hits on both of Black Country Communion’s albums – 2010’s debut and 2011’s sophomore release “2“.

Johnny Winter

Roots

First album in 7 years !!

On this album Johnny honours his idols and goes back to his roots.

Special guests include:
Sonny Landreth, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes, John Popper, Jimmy Vivino, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, John Medeski and Johnny’s brother Edgar Winter.