A phalanx of world class musicians held their ground on the stage at the ELLNORA Guitar Festival 2013 [September 3-7] with performances of blues, roots, flamenco, rock, classical, jazz, ragas and a rich array of music that wowed the audiences at the University of Illinois, Krannert Center for Performing Arts, Urbana, Illinois.
DEVI [“Davey”] is a ‘70s-drenched rock band from Jersey City, led by Debra Devi, “a supersonic fret-burner who writes hauntingly memorable songs” [JamBase. She’s a Fender artist, and the first female guitarist to record for Guitar World’s “Lick of the Day” iPhone app.
Guitarist/singer/composer, Corey Harris , calls the blues “the foundation of all contemporary music.” Harris is just one of a team of premier blues artists who appear on True Blues, a 13-song live CD set for release May 28, 2013, on Telarc.
Following her acclaimed guitar performance alongside Annie Lennox at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert in June 2012 and the release of her critically acclaimed third studio album Almost Always Never, British blues rock guitarist,Joanne Shaw Taylor, returns to the U.K. on Sunday 12th May for an exclusive London concert to record a new live DVD.
The masterful blues guitarists, Joe Bonamassa, has announced that after the release on March 25th of his live album and DVD, An Acoustic Evening At The Vienna Opera House, he will embark on a seven date U.K. Arena Tour in September 2013.
Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign positioned near the top. The Indianola, Mississippi-born “King of the Blues Guitar,” who cut his professional teeth as a resident of the St. Louis suburb of Lovejoy, Ill., cemented his legacy with his Stax Records debut album.
G-Men productions has announced the pending release of a new guitar app that will be sure to have the music community talking: The Johnny Winter App.
Joe Bonamassa, Bonnie Raitt, Ministry singer/guitarist Al Jourgensen and Muddy Waters guitarist Bob Margolin all love the award-winning new The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu, available now as an eBook and in print.
With the release of their seventh album Black Cat Oil, Delta Moon expands upon the sound that has sold an extraordinary number of records and allowed them to play for multitudes of devoted fans the world over in the past several years.
Today, internationally renowned guitar superstar Joe Bonamassa will release his first single and the official music video from his brand new solo album Driving Towards The Daylight (J&R Adventures) – his “lucky” 13th album – out May 22.
