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Robben Ford: Bringing It Back Home

CD / Provogue / 2013-02-26

Tracks: Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky; Birds Nest Bound; Fair Child; Oh, Vagina; Slick Capers Blues; On That Morning; Traveler's Waltz; Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine; Trick Bag; Fool's Paradi...
Artists: Robben Ford

Robben Ford's last studio effort, 2007's Truth, received a Grammy nomination for best contemporary blues album. Where that recording focused on his workmanlike songwriting skills and his prodigious gu...continue...

Robben Ford: Bringing It Back Home *

CD / Provogue / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky; Birds Nest Bound; Fair Child; Oh, Virginia; Slick Capers Blues; On That Morning; Traveler's Waltz; Most Likely You Can Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine; Trick Bag; Fool's ...
Artists: Robben Ford

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Goldings and Ford shine; Ford takes his time and slowly ignites his solo with some smart jazz chords and subtle and tasty blues leads. Toussaint's...continue...
Personnel: Robben Ford (vocals, guitar); Stephen Baxter (trombone); Larry Goldings (organ); Harvey Mason, Sr. (drums).

Audio Mixer: Ed Cherney .

Recording information: Brotheryn Studios,...continue...

Otis Taylor: My World Is Gone *

CD / Telarc (Label) / 2013-02-12

Tracks: My World Is Gone; Lost My Horse; Huckleberry Blues; Sand Creek Massacre Mourning; Wind Comes In, The; Blue Rain in Africa; Never Been to the Reservation; Girl Friend's House; Jae Jae Waltz; Gangster ...
Artists: Otis Taylor

Audio Mixer: Mike Yach.

Recording information: Immersive Studios, Boulder, CO.

Photographer: O.S. Goff.

Arranger: Otis Taylor.

Otis Taylor is among the most mercurial of bl...continue...

Ben Harper/Charlie Musselwhite: Get Up! [Digipak]

CD / Concord / 2013-01-29

Tracks: Don't Look Twice; I'm In, I'm Out, I'm Gone; We Can't End This Way; I Don't Believe a Word You Say; You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend); I Ride at Dawn; Blood Side Out; Get Up!; She Got K...
Artists: Ben Harper/Charlie Musselwhite

Personnel: Ben Harper (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Jason Mozersky (guitar); Jesse Ingalls (keyboards); Jordan Richardson (drums).

Audio Mixer: Sheldon Gomberg.

Recording information: ...continue...

Ben Harper/Charlie Musselwhite: Get Up! [Deluxe Edition] [Digipak]

2 CD / Concord / 2013-01-29

Tracks: Don't Look Twice; I'm In, I'm Out, I'm Gone; We Can't End This Way; I Don't Believe a Word You Say; You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend); I Ride at Dawn; Blood Side Out; Get Up!; She Got K...
Artists: Ben Harper/Charlie Musselwhite

Personnel: Ben Harper (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica); Jason Mozersky (guitar); Jesse Ingalls (keyboards); Jordan Richardson (drums).

Audio Mixer: Sheldon Gomber...continue...

Renegade Creation: Bullet [Digipak]

1 CD / Blues Bureau International / 2012-06-05

Tracks: All Over Again; Bullet; On a Mountain; Nazareth; People Like Me; Too Much of Nothin'; Greedy Life; High and Low; Older Today; Saint and Satan
Artists: Renegade Creation

Personnel: Michael Landau, Robben Ford (vocals, guitars); Jimmy Haslip (electric bass); Gary Novak (drums, percussion).

Audio Mixer: Ed Cherney .

Recording information: Super Duper Studi...continue...

B.B. King: Live at Montreux 1993 [DVD]

DVD Video / LM / 2012-02-21

Artists: B.B. King

Beth McKee: Next to Nowhere [Digipak] *

CD / / 2012-02-21

Tracks: Next to Nowhere; On the Verge; Shoulda Kept on Walkin'; Not Tonight, Josephine; New Orleans to Jackson; River Rush; Tug of War; Someone Came Around; Same Dog's Tail; Return to Me; Already Mine
Artists: Beth McKee

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Beth McKee came to the attention of those outside the deep south with

her stellar 2009 album I'm That Way, a collection of Bobby Charles covers. Li...continue...

Otis Taylor: Otis Taylor's Contraband

1 CD / Universal Distribution / 2012-02-14

Tracks: Devil's Gonna Lie, The; Yell Your Name; Look to the Side; Romans Had Their Way; Blind Piano Teacher; Banjo Boogie Blues; 2 or 3 Times; Contraband Blues; Lay On My Delta Bed; Your 10 Dollar Bill; Open...
Artists: Otis Taylor

Audio Mixer: Mike Yach.

Recording information: Immersive Studios, Boulder, CO.

Photographer: Len Irish.

Arranger: Otis Taylor.

Anyone who has paid attention to Otis Taylor'...continue...

Various Artists: Blues for Rainy Days

CD / In-Akustik / 2012-01-10

Tracks: Love Fever - Ana Popovic; Guapo, El - Grayson Capps; Love Had a Breakdown - Son Seals; Cold Rain - Blues Company; Where Blues Turn Black - Larry Garner; My Saving Angel - Eamonn McCormack; Thrill Is ...
Artists: Various Artists

This 14-track set of contemporary blues artists is themed around gray weather and rainy days, and while it isn't uplifting in the normal sense, a shared feeling of melancholy comes through, and in its...continue...

Maria Muldaur: Steady Love [Digipak] *

CD / Stony Plain (Canada) / 2011-09-27

Tracks: I'll Be Glad; Why Are People Like That?; Soulful Dress; Blues Go Walking; I Done Made It Up in My Mind; Walk by Faith; As an Eagle Stirreth in Her Nest; Rain Down Tears; Get You Next to Me; Steady Lo...
Artists: Maria Muldaur

Personnel: Shane Theriot (guitar); David Torkanowsky (keyboards); Kenny Blevins (drums); Yolanda "Peb" Windsay, Jolinda Kiki Phillips, Shannon Powell (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: John Port...continue...

B.B. King: B.B. King Soundstage

Blu-Ray Video / Dreamworks / 2011-07-12

Tracks: Everyday I Have the Blues; See That My Grave Is Kept Clean; How Many More Years; Downhearted; I Need You So; I Got Some Help I Don't Need; Thrill is Gone; Nobody Loves Me But My Mother; Let the Good ...
Artists: B.B. King

Miller Anderson Band: Live At Rockpalast 2010

1 CD / Made in Germany / 2011-05-31

Tracks: City Blues; Sinnin' For You; Boogie Brothers; I Love To Boogie; High Tide and High Water; Fallin' Back Into the Blue; Just To Cry; Think It Over; Houston; Little Man Dancing; Spoonful
Artists: Miller Anderson Band

Personnel: Miller Anderson (vocals, guitar); Frank Tischer (keyboards, background vocals); Tommy Fischer (drums); Kris Gray (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Ralph Neukirchen.

Liner Note...continue...

Elvin Bishop: Raisin' Hell Revue: Live on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise [Digipak]

CD / Delta Groove Music / 2011-05-17

Tracks: Callin' All Cows; Whole Lotta Lovin'; Fooled Around and Fell In Love; What the Hell is Goin' On; Night Time is the Right Time, The; Down In Virginia; Rock My Soul; Cryin' Fool; River's Invitation; Dy...
Artists: Elvin Bishop

Personnel: Elvin Bishop (vocals, guitar); John Németh (vocals, harmonica); Steve Willis (vocals, accordion, piano); Terry Hanck (vocals, tenor saxophone); Ed Earley (vocals, trombone, percussion)...continue...

Miller Anderson Band: Live At Rockpalast 2010

1 DVD Video / Made in Germany / 2011-05-03

Tracks: City Blues; Sinnin` For You; Boogie Brothers; I Love To Boogie; High Tide and High Water; Fallin`Back Into the Blue; Just To Cry; Think It Over; Houston; Leavin` Trunk; Little Man Dancing; Spoonfull
Artists: Miller Anderson Band

B.B. King: Live at the Regal

CD / Universal Japan / 2011-04-12

Artists: B.B. King

2 LPs on 1 CD; both CDs are available seperately.

Personnel: B.B. King (vocals, guitar); Kenny Sands (trumpet); Johnny Board, Bobby Forte (tenor saxophone); Duke Jethro (piano); Leo Lauchie (ba...continue...

B.B. King: Icon 2

2 CD / Geffen / 2011-04-05

Tracks: How Blue Can You Get?; Help the Poor; Every Day I Have the Blues [Live]; Sweet Little Angel [Live]; All Over Again; Don't Answer the Door; Paying the Cost to Be the Boss; Why I Sing the Blues; Thrill...
Artists: B.B. King

Universal's double-disc Icon doubles the size of their single-disc set of the same name and covers the same ground only in greater detail, adding a few more live tracks and studio staples to draw a gr...continue...

B.B. King: 3 O'Clock Blues

CD / Pepper Cake / 2011-03-22

Tracks: Three O'Clock Blues; My Baby's Gone; B.B. Blues; My Own Fault, Darlin'; Everyday I Have The Blues; She's Dynamite; Take A Swing With Me; Early Every Morning; Hard Workin' Woman; Woke Up This Morning;...
Artists: B.B. King

Stoney Curtis Band/Stoney Curtis: Cosmic Connection *

1 CD / Blues Bureau International / 2011-03-08

Tracks: Blues & Rock 'n' Roll; When the Sweet Turns to Sour; Mouthful of Honey; Headin' for the City; Soul Flower; Good Lovin' Done Right; Big Beautiful Women; Mary Jayne; Infatuation Blues; Before the Devil...
Artists: Stoney Curtis Band/Stoney Curtis

Personnel: Stoney Curtis (vocals, guitar); Aaron Haggerty (drums).

Audio Mixers: Mark "Mooka" Rennick; Jason D'Ottavio.

Recording information: Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati, CA.

Pho...continue...

Cyndi Lauper: Memphis Blues

CD / Sony Music Japan International / 2011-02-22

Tracks: Just Your Fool - (featuring Charlie Musselwhite); Shattered Dreams - (featuring Allen Toussaint); Early in the Morning - (featuring Allen Toussaint/B.B. King); Romance in the Dark; How Blue Can You G...
Artists: Cyndi Lauper

Personnel: Charles "Skip" Pitts (guitar); Kirk Smothers (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Derrick Williams (tenor saxophone); Marc Franklin (trumpet); Lester Snell (piano, organ); Howard Grimes (...continue...

Mahogany: Mahogany

CD / Aurora / 2011-02-01

Tracks: Cooling; Best Woman Best Friend; Live Your Love a Lie; Easy; Two Trains; Armchair Woman; Sweet Home Chicago; For Jane; Keeping My Cool; Feeling Good
Artists: Mahogany

Liner Note Author: Marion Fredi Towbin....continue...

B.B. King: Makin' Love Is Good for You

CD / Super Bird Records / 2011-02-01

Tracks: I Got to Leave This Woman; Sine I Fell for You; I Know; Peace of Mind; Monday Woman; Ain't Nobody Like My Baby; Makin' Love Is Good for You; Don't Go No Further; Actions Speak Louder Than Words; What...
Artists: B.B. King

Personnel: B.B. King (guitar); Leon Warren, John Porter (guitar); Joe Sublett (tenor saxophone); Walter R. King, Melvin Jackson (saxophone); James Bolden, Stanley Abernathy, Darrell Leonard (trumpet);...continue...

B.B. King: B.B. Boogie [Digipak]

1 CD / Snapper UK / 2010-10-25

Tracks: B.B. Boogie; She's Dynamite; That Ain't the Way to Do It; Three O'Clock Blues; Blind Love; Woke Up This Morning; Please Love Me; Woman I Ove, The; When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer; You Upset Me Baby...
Artists: B.B. King

Janis Joplin: I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama/Love Janis

CD / Sony Music Distribution (USA) / 2010-10-05

Artists: Janis Joplin

Percy Mayfield: Nightless Lover

CD / Hoodoo / 2010-09-14

Artists: Percy Mayfield

Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 [DVD]

DVD Video / Warner Bros. / 2010-09-14

Tracks: Introduction; Uberesso; Hell At Home; Maharina; Rosie; Outside Woman Blues; Little By Little; Anyday; Highway 61 Revisited; Nobodysoul; Poor Johnny; Dirty Work At the Crossroads; Sitting On Top of th...
Artists: Eric Clapton

Otis Spann/Junior Wells/Buddy Guy: Viper: Snakebite V

1 CD / Retroworld / 2010-08-10

Tracks: I Got a Strange Feeling; Calling All Blues; Galloping Horses a Lazy Mule; You Don't Care; Two Headed woman; Broken Hearted Blues; First Time I Met the Blues; Cha Cha Cha in Blues; Ten Years Ago; Come...
Artists: Otis Spann/Junior Wells/Buddy Guy

Champion Jack Dupree: Blues from the Gutter/Natural and Soulful Blues

CD / Avid Records / 2010-07-27

Artists: Champion Jack Dupree

Cyndi Lauper: Memphis Blues [Digipak]

1 CD / Downtown / 2010-06-22

Tracks: Just Your Fool - (featuring Charlie Musselwhite); Shattered Dreams; Early in the Mornin' - (featuring B.B. King); Romance in the Dark; How Blue Can You Get?; Down Don't Bother Me - (featuring Charlie...
Artists: Cyndi Lauper

Memphis Blues is the eleventh studio album by American singer Cyndi Lauper, nominee for the Grammy Awards 2010, was released on June 22, 2010.

Lauper performed...continue...
Personnel: Charles "Skip" Pitts (guitar); Kirk Smothers (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Derrick Williams (tenor saxophone); Marc Franklin (trumpet); Lester Snell (piano, organ); Howard Grimes (...continue...

Renegade Creation: Bullet [Digipak]

1 CD / Blues Bureau International / 2010-04-27

Tracks: What's Up; Soft in Black Jeans; Destiny Over Me; God and Rock 'n Roll; Darkness, The; Renegade Destruction; Peace Intro; Peace; Who Do You Think You Are; Where the Wind Blows; Brothers
Artists: Renegade Creation

Personnel: Gary Novak (drums); Jimmy Haslip (bass guitar); Michael Landau (guitar); Robben Ford (guitar); Dustin Boyer (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Rich Breen .

Recording informatio...continue...

Peter Karp/Sue Foley: He Said She Said

1 CD / Blind Pig / 2010-03-16

Tracks: Treat Me Right; So Far so Fast; Wait; Rules of Engagement; Hold on Baby; Mm Hmm; Danger Lurks; Ready for Your Love; Scared; Valentine's Day; Dear Girl,; Baby Don't Go; Regret; Lost in You
Artists: Peter Karp/Sue Foley

Award winning Canadian blues guitarist Sue Foley joins singer/songwriter Peter Karp on this intimate recording. Foley has shared the stage with BB King, John Lee...continue...
Personnel: Peter Karp (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, piano, organ); Sue Foley (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, nylon-string guitar); Jason Ricci (harmonica); Terry Owen (tenor saxo...continue...

Darrell Nulisch: Just for You [Digipak] *

1 CD / Severn Records / 2009-10-20

Tracks: You Don't Know Me; Woman Don't Live Here No More, The; Work for Love; Just for You; It's a Shame; Just a Little Blues; Far Too Lonely; All the Love We Had; Let a Woman Be a Woman; Natural Thing
Artists: Darrell Nulisch

Personnel: Darrell Nulisch (vocals, harmonica); Johnny Moeller (guitar); Scott Young (flute, alto saxophone); Bruce Swaim, Jeff Antoniuk (tenor saxophone); Scott Silbert (baritone saxophone); Kenny Ri...continue...

John Campbelljohn: Good to Go

1 CD / BHM Productions / 2009-10-13

Tracks: Pocket Full Of Stones; Ballad of Shorty and Jimmy Jones, The; Knocked Down; I'm On A Deadline; Jack Of All Trades; Good To Go; Epiphony; Snake Oil; Manslaughter; Land Of The Livin'; Lockdown; No Dear...
Artists: John Campbelljohn

Personnel: John Campbelljohn (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin); Andrew Lambert (bass guitar, background vocals); Neil Robertson (drums, background vocals).

Audio Mixer:...continue...

B.B. King: Live in Europe

1 CD / Music Avenue (France) / 2009-10-13

Artists: B.B. King

Kelley Hunt: Mercy

1 CD / 88 Records / 2009-07-21

Tracks: You Got to Be the Vessel; Lone Star Road; Love; Freedom Day; Emerald City; Mercy; Give Me a Sign; You Can't Fool Me Anymore; Drowning Man; That Ain't Love; Wig Chalet; Mountain to Move
Artists: Kelley Hunt

Personnel: Kelley Hunt (vocals, strings, piano, background vocals); Bryan Owings (guitar, drums); Colin Linden, Rob McNelley (guitar); Mitch Reilly (acoustic guitar, pennywhistle, tenor saxophone); Ma...continue...

Albert King: King Albert/New Orleans Heat

CD / Charly Records (UK) / 2009-05-19

Tracks: Love Shock; You Upset Me Babe; Chump Change; Let Me Rock You; Boot Lace; Love Mechanic; Call My Job; Good Time Charlie; Get out of My Life; Born Under a Bad Sign; Feeling, The; We All Wanna Boogie; V...
Artists: Albert King

2009 release that compiles two albums from the Blues great on one disc: King Albert (1977) and New Orleans Heat (1978). The king of modern...continue...
Liner Note Author: Dave Penny.

This reissue on the Charly label features a pair of LPs by Albert King: King Albert and New Orleans Heat, originally issued on Tomato in 1977 and 1978. Highlights...continue...

B.B. King: One Kind Favor

1 CD / Geffen / 2008-08-26

Tracks: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean; I Get So Weary; Get These Blues Off Me; How Many More Years; Waiting For Your Call; My Love Is Down; World Gone Wrong, The; Blues Before Sunrise; Midnight Blues; Back...
Artists: B.B. King

B.B. King returns to his blues roots with the help of producer T Bone Burnett on "One Kind Favor,". The legendary artist is backed on...continue...
Personnel: B.B. King (vocals, electric guitar); Johnny Lee Schell (guitar); Jeffrey Clayton, Keith Fiddmont (alto saxophone); Rickey Woodard, Thomas R. Peterson, Charles Owens (tenor saxophone); Ernie...continue...

Don Cavalli: Cryland [Slipcase] *

2 CD / Everloving / 2008-04-22

Tracks: Gloom Uprising; I'm Going to a River; Aggression; Here Sat I (Off Jumps the Don); Vitamin a; Vengeance; Wandering Wanderer; Cryland; New Hollywood Babylon; Wonder Chairman; Cherie de Mon Coeur; Casua...
Artists: Don Cavalli

In 2008 Don Cavalli invades our shores with Cryland, his U.S. debut for Everloving, out on March 4th. Wah-wah is his weapon of choice. Cavalli's...continue...
Don Cavalli's second album is a classic blend of moments of interest in a framework that just doesn't quite hold the interest. Within the framework of a fairly standard electric blues set, turns such ...continue...

Stoney Curtis Band/Stoney Curtis: Raw and Real

1 CD / Blues Bureau International / 2007-10-23

Tracks: That's Right; Sometimes She Likes Me; Girlfriend; Behind the Sun; American Lady; Black Rose; Blues Without You; Eli's Blues; Coldwater Canyon; Rain Over Me; Love & Money; Dirt; Ridin' Hard Livin' Free
Artists: Stoney Curtis Band/Stoney Curtis

Stoney Curtis Band/Stoney Curtis: Stoney Curtis; Colby Smith (bass guitar); Charlie Glover (drums).

Personnel: Stoney Curtis (vocals, guitar); Jesse Bradman (vocals, background vocals); Pete Re...continue...

B.B. King: Electric Blues

CD / Not Now Music / 2005-01-01

Tracks: Please Love Me; You Upset Me Baby; Every Day I Have The Blues; Bad Luck; 3 O'Clock Blues; Blind Love; Woke Up This Morning; You Know I Love You; Sweet Little Angel; Ten Long Years; Did You Ever Love ...
Artists: B.B. King

B.B. King: Midnight Believer/Take It Home

1 CD / B.G.O. / 2004-03-09

Tracks: When It All Comes Down (I'll Still Be Around); Midnight Believer; I Just Can't Leave Your Love Alone; Hold On (I Feel Our Love Is Changing); Never Make a Move Too Soon; World Full of Strangers, A; Le...
Artists: B.B. King

Digitally remastered 2 albums on a single CD from the King of the Blues from the late 70's and recorded in collaboration with The Crusaders...continue...
2 LPs on 1 CD: MIDNIGHT BELIEVER (1978)/TAKE IT HOME (1979).

Personnel includes: B.B. King (vocals, guitar); The Crusaders.

Personnel: B.B. King (vocals, guitar); Dean Parks, Paul Jackso...continue...

B.B. King: Live at the Regal

CD / Beat Goes On / 2003-02-24

Tracks: Every Day I Have the Blues; Sweet Little Angel; It's My Own Fault; How Blue Can You Get?; Please Love Me; You Upset Me Baby; Worry, Worry; Woke up This Morning (My Baby's Gone); You Done Lost Your Go...
Artists: B.B. King

2 LPs on 1 CD; both CDs are available seperately.

Personnel: B.B. King (vocals, guitar); Kenny Sands (trumpet); Johnny Board, Bobby Forte (tenor saxophone); Duke Jethro (piano); Leo Lauchie (ba...continue...

B.B. King: Makin Love Is Good For You

1 CD / MCA (USA) / 2000-06-16

Tracks: I Got to Leave This Woman; Since I Fell For You; I Know; Peace of Mind; Monday Woman; Ain't Nobody Like My Baby; Makin Love Is Good For You; Don't Go No Further; Actions Speak Louder Than Words; What...
Artists: B.B. King

Japanese Version Featuring A Bonus Track: My Gal Keeps Me Crying....continue...
Personnel: B.B. King (guitar); Leon Warren, John Porter (guitar); Joe Sublett (tenor saxophone); Walter R. King, Melvin Jackson (saxophone); James Bolden, Stanley Abernathy, Darrell Leonard (trumpet);...continue...

Albert King: Blues at Sunrise: Live at Montreux

1 CD / Stax (USA) / 1994-03-24

Tracks: Don't Burn Down the Bridge ('Cause You Might Wanna Come Back Across); I Believe to My Soul; For the Love of a Woman; Blues at Sunrise; I'll Play the Blues for You; Little Brother (Make a Way); Roadho...
Artists: Albert King

Personnel: Albert King (vocals, guitar); Don Kinsey (guitar); Rick Watson (tenor saxophone); Norville Hodges, Wilbur Tompson (trumpet); James Washington (organ); Bill Rennie (bass); Sam King (drums)....continue...