Encore Records

Pinetop Perkins and Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith

Joined At the Hip

The album is a mix of material written by Smith, along with a few chestnuts from the annals of Delta and Chicago blues.

Steve Miller Band

Bingo !

The man some people call Maurice releases Bingo!, his first new recordings in 17 years.

Bingo! is the album Steve Miller has waited his entire life to make.

Reaching back to his apprenticeship as a young man on the Chicago Blues scene, Miller and co-producer Andy Johns brought classic Rhythm & Blues numbers into the 21st century that have been at the foundation of his music throughout his career.

Watermelon Slim

Ringers

“A blues hero goes country…  The country of the seventies, before homogenization of the Garth ages.  The sound owes as much to Lynyrd Skynyrd as to Merle, Hank and Waylon”  -Blues Revue

Muddy Waters

Can’t Be Satisfied

This presentation of the PBS American Masters anthology recounts the life and life’s work of the “archetypal bluesman,” Muddy Waters. Born McKinley A. Morganfield in 1915 (his nickname was bestowed on him by his mother), Waters became skilled at guitar and harmonica early on, but the racial and economic circumstances of the Mississippi Delta area in which he lived dictated that he could not support himself as a musician, thus he toiled away at a variety of depressing dead-end jobs. He might have remained in utter obscurity had it not been for the diligent efforts of African-American musicologist John Work III, who in 1941 embarked upon an expedition into the Deep South in search of authentic “ethnic” music and talented amateur musicians. Once he had committed his work to record, Waters became a international icon and sensation, though it seemed that the only people who truly benefited financially from his vast musical output were the white singers who performed the “cover” versions. Even so, Muddy Waters had ascended to the status of legend by the time he passed away, still recording and performing, in 1990.

Arcangels

Living In a Dream

They’re back with a new live cd !

Charlie Sexton, Doyle Bramhall II and Chris Layton, recorded live at Stubbs in Texas !

The Black Keys

Brothers

2010 release, the sixth album from the Alt-Rock duo.

Band member Patrick Carney admits Brothers is the album they’ve always wanted to make and taps into their creative force as a duo.

Ray Charles

Genius + Soul = Jazz (EXPANDED)

A newly remastered 2 cd edition features 4 complete albums on 2 cds for the price on a single cd !!

Genius + Soul = Jazz / My Kind of Jazz / Jazz Number II / My Kind of Jazz Part 3 !

Hot Tuna

Live at the New Orleans House, Berkeley, CA 09/69

Previously unreleased live album from around the time of their debut release !

Johnny Winter

Live at the Fillmore East 10/3/70

Previously unreleased live set from the legendary rocker.

The other live album from Johnny Winter And, 1971’s Live Johnny Winter And, has always ranked as one of the high points of Johnny’s discography, but we’d stack this 66-minute set up against that record (which was in part composed of other Fillmore East performances) any day of the week.

In fact, when you hear Johnny and Rick Derringer trading off lead after lead, you may well be reminded of a bluesier, harder-edged Allman Brothers, with Johnny as Duane and Derringer as Dickey Betts with the McCoys’ rhythm section.

In other words, folks, this is some of the most ferocious Blues-Rock ever laid down on stage!

Jonny Lang

Live At the Ryman

His first official live release.

As the title suggests, the CD was recorded at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn.

It’s slated to features songs spanning the first decade of Lang’s career.