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2009-2019
Luther Dickinson & The Sons of Mudboy
Let It Roll (Luther Dickinson) 4:16
Back Back Train (Traditional) 4:35
from Onward and Upward 2009
Three days after the death of legendary musician and producer Jim Dickinson, his son, Luther Dickinson, gathered friends at the family Zebra Ranch studio in Independence, MS, and recorded Onward and Upward, an album of gospel songs, hymns, and blues spirituals, tracking directly to half-inch tape with no overdubs or embellishments, and the result was a no-frills and intimate testament of grief and renewal. Luther, long a member of the North Mississippi Allstars and also currently a member of the Black Crowes, dubbed the ad hoc group the Sons of Mudboy, a reference to his father's influential band Mudboy and the Neutrons. On hand were two original members of the Neutrons, Sid Selvidge (guitar, vocals) and Jimmy Crosthwait (washboard, vocals), along with Jimbo Mathus (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals), Steve Selvidge (guitar, Dobro, vocals), Paul Taylor (washtub bass), and vocalist Shannon McNally. The album itself is essentially a musical wake, a way to both honor and say goodbye to Jim Dickinson in the one way he would most certainly want...
Mannish Boys
Too Tired feat. Nick Curran, Finis Tasby (Maxwell Davis / Sam Ling / John Watson) 3:38
Reconsider Baby feat. Franck Goldwasser, Finis Tasby (Lowell Fulson) 3:08
You Can't Be Beat feat. Kirk Fletcher, Bobby Jones, Randy Chortkoff (Chester Burnett) 4:27
from Shake for Me 2010
Through five years, and over as may CDs, the rotating personnel of the Mannish Boys constituted an impressive array of rhythm-section member and special guest all-stars. Shake for Me displays this potpourri of blues musicians on some classic tunes and those written by select bandmembers, each one with a special, customized feeling. With personnel ranging from duets up to horn-fired big-band charts, this quintessential backup band takes center stage on their way to deserved recognition as a premier blues group in their own right...
Shemekia Copeland
Turn the Heat Up 5:04
Ghetto Child 4:07
It's 2 A.M. 4:30
from Deluxe Edition 2011
...This hour-plus compilation successfully grabs 15 highlights, adds a snappy Christmas song originally included on an Alligator holiday anthology, and provides a snapshot for those who want a sampler of Copeland's talents. While the strutting, harder-edged music, often including horns, is a significant part of Copeland's résumé and substantially represented here, the compilers have included some jazzy and more subtle performances that show she is comfortable dialing down the vocal fire power when needed. There's also a funky side to her personality...
Mary Bridget Davies
Your Kinda Love 3:35
Same Ol' Blues 3:59
Wanna Feel Somethin' 3:37
Trick The Devil 4:35
from Wanna Feel Somethin' 2012
Wanna Feel Somethin’, the debut album from Mary Bridget Davies does indeed feel something like an artist on verge of bigger things. Fresh on the heels of their second place finish at the 2011 international blues challenge, Davies and her crack four piece band recorded this ten song set in Kansas City, augmented by a hot horn section. The tracks all showcase the amazing vocals of Davies, who starred in the musical Love- Janis and toured with Big Brother and the Holding Co. in 2006. But don’t be fooled this diva is no Janis Joplin wanna be, her powerhouse vocals are more of a cross between Joss Stone and Shemekia Copeland, who Davies is no doubt poised to replace as the Queen of the blues. The eight fine original tunes showcase the writing strengths of guitarist Dave Hayes and Bassist Gary Roberts and the band’s ability to add fire and freshness to traditional forms.
Lala Njava
Soa Gnanay 4:25
Hasosora 4:37
Blues Song 5:44
from Malagasy Blues Song 2013
Like the flora and fauna of her Madagascar homeland, Lala Njava's music is distinctive and unique. Listen out for her silvery wandering voice, lush rolling guitars and rippling percussion on this, her striking debut album - her Malagasy Blues Song.
If Lala Njava's music was a colour, it would be indigo - a dark, pensive hue that rings with a deep, almost bluesy, edge. Listening to Malagasy Blues Song, we hear bending guitar lines, Lala's silvery wandering voice and rippling percussion winding together in harmony...
Bean has dedicated himself to promoting older blues stylings, such as Delta blues and Hill country blues. "What's stimulating to me," he said, "is people hearing the blues played like they used to hear it."
Terry Harmonica Bean
I Want To Tell You What The Reason Is 4:55
Shake Your Money Maker 4:37
I Just Want To Make Love To You (Willie Dixon) 3:03
from Catfish Blues 2014
Austrian blues label Wolf Records delves deep into the cradle of American music to feature juke joint boogie from one of Mississippi’s finest living bluesmen. Terry “Harmonica” Bean hails from Pontotoc, MS, and over the course of 56 minutes he puts on a clinic in how to get down, north Mississippi style. Mississippi’s hill country remains one of the few thriving geographic clusters of traditional blues, with hypnotic guitar growling from dance floors across the region. Unlike its Chicago counterpart, hill country blues relies not on virtuosic acrobatics but on unrelenting percussive groove...
Norman Blake
Savannah Rag (Norman Blake) 3:30
Blake's Rag (Norman Blake) 3:41
from Wood, Wire & Words 2015
...For Blake's fans, Wood, Wire & Words sounds like the album he's wanted to make for decades. For those who love American folk music but are unfamiliar with his work, there has never been a better argument for making this a starting place and moving backward.
Doyle Bramhall II
Mama Can't Help You (Doyle Bramhall II / Kz Jones) 4:22
The Veil (Doyle Bramhall II / Kz Jones) 4:53
Hear My Train a Comin' (Jimi Hendrix) 5:08
from Rich Man 2016
Doyle Bramhall II put his solo recording career into hibernation following the 2001 release of Welcome, choosing to concentrate on his thriving career as a sideman and producer... Bramhall channels all this experience into Rich Man, his first album in 17 years and also his best. The key to the success of Rich Man is how he loads up the album with thick, funky rhythms, pushing soul over blues over the course of its 13 tracks... By closing the album with a slow, churning rendition of "Hear My Train a Comin'," he consciously reconnects with blues-rock, but early in the record he's riding mellower Southern soul grooves and concentrating on tight songwriting. And that's the trick of the album: it starts expansive and keeps expanding, taking in all the sounds and styles he's played over the last 17 years.
Larkin Poe
Come On In My Kitchen (Robert Johnson) 2:11
Black Betty (Traditional) 2:44
Preachin' Blues (Son House) 3:21
Tom Devil (Traditional) 2:44
from Peach 2017
...But it’s through the release of their own records that the Larkin Poe female duo truly brandish their musical pedigree. And in Peach, they have a strong contender for Southern crossover album of 2017. With blues at its core, the album is a diverse work that incorporates opposing modern and traditional sounds onto a single record without ever sounding dissonant or contrived... Larkin Poe’s mantra seems to be “if it sounds great, then it goes on an album.” It’s one that fans and critics seem to agree works perfectly – with labels like “the little sisters of the Allman Brothers” being thrown around the music press. Peach proves beyond any reasonable doubt the Lovells are worthy of that accolade.
Cedric Burnside
We Made It 3:34
Please Tell Me Baby 3:37
Death Bell Blues 4:36
I'm Hurtin 2:49
from Benton County Relic 2018
It's always an event when a new Cedric Burnside album is released, for many different reasons. First and foremost, to remind us all of the huge contribution that the Mississippi Hill Country sound has given, in the last half a century and beyond, to the fundamentals of Blues in its entirety, through artists like R.L. Burnside, Mississippi Fred McDowell or Junior Kimbrough, for example.
Another good reason is that Cedric Burnside is one of the very few artists left in the world capable to recreate perfectly the Hill Country sound and atmospheres, thanks to his instinctive, inner ability to adapt the mood and the vibes of the Hill Country Blues to his personal tales about life, loss, fears and hopes.
Living temporarily aside the Cedric Burnside Project, the Mississippi Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter has decided to go solo on his brand new album, called Benton County Relic, a record where Burnside digs even deeper than he has ever done on past records, from a lyrical perspective, into events that impacted his personal life in the last couple of years. Events that the American artist has been able to translate, lyrically and sonically, through twelve brand new songs of an impressive depth of intensity and raw honesty, two aspects that have always been at the core of Burnside's musical vision.
Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues
Nobody But You 3:07
Blue and Lonesome (Walter Jacobs) 4:11
Juke (Walter Jacobs) 3:19
Blues With a Feeling (Walter Jacobs) 4:26
from Roots And Branches - The Songs Of Little Walter 2019
Billy Branch earned the throne of king of Chicago Blues harp during the last quarter of the 20th Century, then held it during the first decades of the new millennium. One of the keys to his enduring success is how he didn't merely keep traditions alive, he made sure to blend in elements of funk and soul into Chicago blues, a trick that brought new audiences into the fold while helping the music breathe. In this light, the 2019 album Roots And Branches: The Songs Of Little Walter-recorded with the Sons Of Blues, as nearly all of his albums are-doesn't seem quite so obvious as it might initially appear. Little Walter's influence on Chicago blues in general and harmonicaists in particular is immense, so a tribute album doesn't seem necessarily necessary, yet Branch knows that traditions are kept alive through revivals....
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