Multi-award-winning blues/rock guitarist Colin James’ last US tour in 2024 was cut short due to an automobile accident. Now fully recovered he’s bringing his exciting blend of blues and rock music to fans in the States with the upcoming “Coast to Coast Tour” in April and May
As for the album’s title, Guy Davis states: “The fight we are waging is to keep this precious music form alive. To us, there is not so much difference between our arrangements of blues classics and our newly created work. It’s all connected to the ancestral spirit.”
Eric Gales is set to release his new album, a powerful and moving homage to his late brother Manuel Gales, on ‘A Tribute To LJK’. The album will be released digitally on August 29 and physically on October 24 via Provogue and features appearances by Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Joe Bonamassa, Roosevelt Collier and Josh Smith.
Press Release Source: J. Butcher Grammy-nominated rock and soul guitarist Jon Butcher is one of a select handful of influential recording artists who emerged from the legendary Boston music scene during the 1980’s. Butcher, who also was recently inducted into the New England Music Hall of Fame, has enjoyed a five decade long career marked by […]
Besides the fact that he’s one of the most important guitarists in pop music history, Steve Cropper’s career milestones extend far beyond that significant achievement. Throughout the prime years of Stax Records, when they were releasing some of the greatest soul and r&b music ever recorded, he was a crucial player, from the perspective of both musician and behind the scene
Muriel Anderson’s Sailing Dreams, based on Muriel’s sailing adventures with her partner Bryan Allen, they sailed from Long Island to Maine’s Penobscot Bay, documenting their travels in song, video and photography. But wait – there’s also in a board game based on her journey! (board game separate!). Named by Guitar Player magazine as one of the “50 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” in July 2021 and last month as one of “The Top 10 Female Guitarists of all Time”
For the tenth album to bear his name, guitarist, bandleader, and educator, Oz Noy, opted for the most demanding possible context: An absolutely unvarnished concert recording, capturing his trio with virtuosi Jimmy Haslip (bass) and Dennis Chambers (drums) without the benefit of overdubs or post-production sweetening.
Twenty years since the release of his best-selling album ‘Blues Deluxe,’ which celebrated what the US government had declared “the year of the blues” with a mix of originals and reinterpretations of classic songs, superstar Joe Bonamassa is taking stock of how far he and the genre have come with Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, out October 6th via J&R Adventures.
Last night’s mesmerizing performance by The Dave Kline Band at the Creative Cauldron in Falls Church, Virginia gifted the audience with a diverse array of music brilliance by a five-star case line-up.
Now and then, a phenomenal guitar picker such as Marcus King emerges. Just as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healey, whose meteoric rise to fame during the eighties and early nineties influenced a multitude of guitar-playing hopefuls, King also will leave his indelible mark.
