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San Francisco Bay-Area’s Carmen Ratti Band Featuring Jill Dineen Announces Upcoming Album, Come to Me, and New Label Partnership

San Francisco Bay-Area’s Carmen Ratti Band Featuring Jill Dineen Announces Upcoming Album, Come to Me, and New Label Partnership

Posted February 23, 2026 at 5:21 pm | No comments

Northern California’s blues scene is buzzing as the Carmen Ratti Band featuring Jill Dineen prepares to release their highly anticipated second studio album, Come to Me, on May 8th. The announcement follows the band’s recent signing with MoMojo Records,

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Acoustic Blues Masters Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood, Guy Davis Join Forces On Fight On!  True Blues Vol. 2

Acoustic Blues Masters Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood, Guy Davis Join Forces On Fight On! True Blues Vol. 2

Posted February 2, 2026 at 1:31 pm | No comments

Three of today’s deepest, most decorated acoustic blues masters reunite to summon ancestral spirits with songs both long remembered and newly created on Fight On! True Blues Vol. 2, set for release April 17th

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Fishman Fluence Acoustic Pickups: Sound flexibility Beyond Limits

Fishman Fluence Acoustic Pickups: Sound flexibility Beyond Limits

Posted January 12, 2026 at 9:42 am | No comments

Fishman recently released 3 acoustic guitar pickups featuring Fluence technology (multiple voices and no copper wire winding): Rock Icon, Nashville Legend, and Spotlight. The Fluence technology gives them unprecedented sound flexibility. Let’s take a closer look…

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Eric Gales to Release A Powerful and Moving Album in Honor of His Late Brother on A Tribute to LJK

Eric Gales to Release A Powerful and Moving Album in Honor of His Late Brother on A Tribute to LJK

Posted June 28, 2025 at 5:30 pm | No comments

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.

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Introducing Jon Butcher’s new album: “Nuthin’ but SOUL”

Introducing Jon Butcher’s new album: “Nuthin’ but SOUL”

Posted June 19, 2025 at 2:38 pm | No comments

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 […]

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NYC Photographer Joseph A. Rosen Offers His New Book “Inside The Moment: Iconic Blues, Soul, Jazz, Rock, and R&B Images and History

NYC Photographer Joseph A. Rosen Offers His New Book “Inside The Moment: Iconic Blues, Soul, Jazz, Rock, and R&B Images and History

Posted June 4, 2025 at 2:19 pm | No comments

Prolific New York City photographer, Joseph A. Rosen is set to release yet another book of his music photographs. Joe has been an all-rounder photographer, producing images of commercial sites and more

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Guitar Aficionado Yasmin Williams’ Unforgettable Experience at the legendary Birchmere

Guitar Aficionado Yasmin Williams’ Unforgettable Experience at the legendary Birchmere

Posted February 15, 2025 at 10:38 pm | No comments

Following a dream-like performance by Amadou Kouyate who performed on kora and djembe, some of his original compositions, along with traditional 13th century West African music, the masterful guitarist, Yasmin Williams, opened to a packed house at the legendary Birchmere Music Hall.

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Nola Blue Records Announces Valentine’s Day Single from Benny Turner and Maria Muldaur of “Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)

Nola Blue Records Announces Valentine’s Day Single from Benny Turner and Maria Muldaur of “Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)

Posted February 4, 2025 at 1:28 pm | No comments

Nola Blue Records announces a Valentine’s Day single from Benny Turner & Maria Muldaur. Brook Benton and Dinah Washington’s 1960 release of “Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)” was a pop and R&B hit,

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Iconic Bob Dylan Print by Elliott Landy And Other Landy Merchandise Holiday Sale

Iconic Bob Dylan Print by Elliott Landy And Other Landy Merchandise Holiday Sale

Posted December 12, 2024 at 7:48 am | No comments

From the legendary photographer, Elliot Landy, “This photo has become my most popular image of Bob taken in Woodstock, NY in 1968. In addition to its visual beauty, I feel it sub-consciously communicates the otherworldliness of his musical vision

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Recently Discovered Rare & Unknown Bob Dylan Handwritten Lyrics Penned By Dylan on the Auction Block June 5th!

Posted May 16, 2024 at 8:26 pm | No comments

Among the Lion Heart Autograph sale’s highlights are two unknown pages of unpublished lyrics written by Bob Dylan in New York in the early1980s. Considered one of the 20th Century’s most influential artists, Bob Dylan reshaped popular music to become the voice of his generation. His poetic lyricism has been appreciated by millions worldwide and acknowledged at the highest level when he was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature.

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