Releases Filed Under: "Blues"
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
I Learned The Hard Way
The record marks a bold step forward for a band who almost single-handedly stewarded today’s return of Soul music to its more traditional sound.
I Learned the Hard Way was produced by Bosco Mann and recorded on an Ampex eight-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone Records’ House Of Soul studios, the record drips with a warmth and spontaneity rarely found since the golden days of Muscle Shoals and Stax.
Filed under: Blues • R&B / Soul / Funk • Vinyl
Luther Allison
Blues From the Road
“Songs From The Road” documents a magic moment of the blues-legend Luther Allison.
Recorded in Montreal by the Canadian Television at 4th July 1997, only 4 days before he had to cancel his tour due to illness and was not to set foot on stage again !
CD & DVD.
Filed under: Blues • dvd
Joe Bonamassa
Black Rock
Black Rock was recorded at, and named for, Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece.
On the album, Bonamassa enlisted the help of some of the best Greek musicians to add a little flavor to a couple of the tracks.
Joe also signed up Blues legend B.B. King for a duet on a rendition of the Willie Nelson-penned song, ‘Night Life’. B.B. duets with Joe, both vocally and on his famous Lucille guitar.
Other tracks appearing on the album Jeff Beck’s ‘Spanish Boots’, Leonard Cohen’s poetic ‘Bird On A Wire’, Otis Rush’s ‘Three Times A Fool’, Bobby Parker’s ‘Steal Your Heart Away’, Blind Boy Fuller’s ‘Baby, You Gotta Change Your Mind’, John Hiatt’s ‘I Know A Place’ and James Clark’s ‘Look Over Yonders Wall’, as well as Bonamassa originals.
Filed under: Blues
Mick Taylor Band
Tokyo Concert
Unlike his ex- Rolling Stones buddies, Mick Taylor never associated fame with talent nor celebrity with artistic merit.
His aristocratic attitude and manners obscured the fact that he was the only authentic working class guitar hero of the bunch - largely responsible for the unmistakable Stones’ rugged musical elegance.
This is more obvious than ever in Taylor’s 2009 Tokyo concert. Superbly backed by Max Middleton, Jeff Allen, Kuma Harada and Denny Newman, Mick revisits in grand style his now classic repertoire as well as tunes of Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and others.
Filed under: 60's Rock • Blues • dvd
Jimi Hendrix
Elecric Ladyland / Axis: Bold as Love / Are you Experienced / First Rays
Deluxe digitally remastered CD/DVD edition of these classic albums from the Rock guitar legend.
This edition is housed in a lavish six-panel digipak with 36 page booklet including detailed session info, liner notes, photos and memorabilia.
The DVDs contain an exclusive “making of” mini documentary.
The Vinyl is 180g with gatefold sleeves.
Filed under: Blues • dvd • Rock • Vinyl
Jimi Hendrix
Valleys of Neptune
2010 release from the legendary Rock guitarist containing 12 previously unreleased studio recordings.
Ten of these recordings were made between February and May 1969 as the Jimi Hendrix Experience set out to create their sequel to the groundbreaking 1968 double album Electric Ladyland. Features ‘Valleys Of Neptune,’ one of the most sought after of all of Hendrix’s commercially unavailable recordings.
Includes exciting 1969 arrangements of classic signature songs ‘Red House’, ‘Fire’ and ‘Stone Free’. Also includes unheard studio versions of Hendrix’s inspired interpretations of ‘Bleeding Heart’ by Elmore James and Cream’s ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’.
Mixed by Eddie Kramer, the engineer for all of Hendrix’s albums throughout the guitarist’s lifetime.
Filed under: Blues • Rock
The Derek Trucks Band
S/T & Out of the Madness
We managed to track down copies of the first two cds by the Derek Trucks Band.
These have been unavailable for years !!!
Now in stock !
Filed under: Blues
Holmes Brothers
Feed My Soul
2010 release from the New York-based Blues veterans.
Feed My Soul is the deepest, most original and satisfying album of the Holmes Brothers’ career.
It’s a joyous, triumphant celebration of love, family and faith in the face of adversity, sparked by Wendell Holmes’ recent victory over cancer.
The album was produced by platinum-selling artist Joan Osborne, who produced the band’s 2001 release, Speaking In Tongues
Filed under: Blues
Guitar Shorty
Bare Knuckle
Legendary axeman GUITAR SHORTY is more popular now than at any time in his storied 50-year career.
One of the best-known names in blues, his last album, 2007’s We The People, won the Blues Music Award for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year.
That record and 2005’s Watch Your Back have sold over 33,000 units worldwide.
Bare Knuckle is another heavy dose of Guitar Shorty blues. The guitar legend fires off bruising riffs and raw, fervent vocals on an exhilarating collection of deep, hard-rocking tracks, while his up-to-the-minute lyrics address everything from the economic meltdown and the plight of Iraq War veterans to timeless tales of love won and lost.
Filed under: BluesAlligator
Lucky Peterson
Heart Of Pain
Heart of Pain is a return to (mostly) contemporary Chicago-style blues, on which Peterson plays lead guitar, keyboards, and sings.
He is backed by his current road band and a three-piece horn section.
Filed under: Blues