002 RADiO lemonex / SELECTiON from 2022 The Blues Music Awards nominees of BLUES FOUNDATiON 69 songs/5h

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BLUES MUSIC 69 songs/5h

2022 Blues Music Awards Nominees:

Album of the Year

Tommy Castro - A Bluesman Came To Town from Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town 2021

Chris Cain - As Long As You Get What You Want from Raisin’ Cain 2021

Sue Foley - Pinky's Blues from Pinky's Blues 2021

Wee Willie Walker and The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra - Heartbreak from Not In My Lifetime 2021

Altered Five Blues Band - Guilty of a Good Time from Holler If You Hear Me 2021 best Blues album Nominee

Song of the Year

“Somewhere”, written by Tommy Castro & Tom Hambridge / Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town 2021

“Real Good Lie”, written by Christine Vitale, Larry Batiste, & Anthony Paule / Not in My Lifetime 2021

“I’d Climb Mountains”, written and performed by Selwyn Birchwood / Living In A Burning House 2021

“Holler If You Hear Me”, written by Jeff Schroedl & Mark Solveson (performed by Altered Five Blues Band) / Holler If You Hear Me 2021

“Fragile Peace and Certain War”, written and performed by Carolyn Wonderland / Tempting Fate 2021

Best Emerging Artist Album

                        GA-20                    Gabe Stillman
GA-20 - Sitting At Home Alone from Try It...You Might Like It: GA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor 2021 

Gabe Stillman - No Time for Me from Just Say The Word 2021

Rodd Bland and the Members Only Band - (Get Your Money) Where You Spend Your Time (feat. Jerome Chism) from Live on Beale Street: A Tribute to Bobby "Blue" Bland 2021 

Memphissippi Sounds - Crossroads from Welcome To The Land 2021 

Veronica Lewis - Is You Is My Baby from You Ain’t Unlucky 2021

Blues Rock Album

Damon Fowler - Some Things Change from Alafia Moon 2021

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Too Cool to Dance from Dance Songs for Hard Times 2021

Mike Zito - Resurrection from Resurrection 2021

Popa Chubby - Boogie For Tony from Tinfoil Hat 2021

Jeremiah Johnson - Muddy Black Water from Unemployed Highly Annoyed 2021

Best Acoustic Album

Eric Bibb - Whole World's Got The Blues from Dear America 2021

Catfish Keith - Red Night Gown from Land of the Sky 2021

Maria Muldaur - Got The South In My Soul from Let’s Get Happy Together 2021

Hector Anchondo - Let Loose Those Chains from Let Loose Those Chains 2021

EG Kight - You're Drivin' Me Crazy from The Trio Sessions 2021

Contemporary Blues Album

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - 662 from 662 2021

Curtis Salgado - Damage Control from Damage Control 2021

Altered Five Blues Band - Full Moon, Half Crazy from Holler If You Hear Me 2021

Chris Cain - Hush Money from Raisin’ Cain 2021

Tommy Castro - Women, Drugs and Alcohol from Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town 2021

Traditional Blues Album

Guy Davis - Badonkadonk Train from Be Ready When I Call You 2021

Bob Corritore - Spider in My Stew from Spider in My Stew 2021

Eddie 9V - Don't Come Around This House from Little Black Flies 2021

Sue Foley - Hurricane Girl from Pinky's Blues 2021

R.L. Boyce  - Boogie w/ R.L. Boyce (Live) 2021

Soul Blues Album

Gerald McClendon - If That Ain't the Blues from Let’s Have A Party 2021

Zac Harmon - Deal with the Devil from Long As I Got My Guitar 2021

Wee Willie Walker and The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra - Darling Mine from Not In My Lifetime 2021

Dave Keller and Katie Henry - The Kiss I Want  from You Get What You Give 2021

Tia Carroll  - Move On from You Gotta Have It 2021

B.B. King Entertrainer

Tommy Castro - You To Hold On To from Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town 2021

Eric Gales - You Don't Know the Blues from Crown 2021

Mr. Sipp (Castro Coleman) - Let's Have A Good Time from Sippnotized 2021

J.P. Soars - Let Go of the Reins from Let Go of the Reins 2019

Sugaray Rayford - Dark Night of the Soul from Somebody Save Me 2019

Band of the Year

Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra  with Wee Willie Walker - Til You’ve Walked in My Shoes from Not In My Lifetime 2021

J.P. Soars and the Red Hots - Minor Blues from Let Go of the Reins 2019

Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials - I’ll Cry Tomorrow from The Big Sound of Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials 2016

Sugaray Rayford Band - Invisible Soldier from In Too Deep 2022

Tommy Castro & The Painkillers - I Got Burned from Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town 2021

Acoustic Blues Artist

Eric Bibb - Talkin' 'Bout A Train, Pt. 2 from Dear America 2021

Kevin Burt - Stone Crazy from Stone Crazy 2020

Guy Davis - I Thought I Heard The Devil Call My Name from Be Ready When I Call You 2021

Doug MacLeod - This Road I'm Walking from Break the Chain 2017

Keb’ Mo’ - Good To Be (Home Again) from Good To Be... 2022

Blues Rock Artist

Albert Castiglia - I Been up All Night from Up All Night 2017

Tommy Castro  - Blues Prisoner from Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town 2021

Tinsley Ellis - Your Love's Like Heroin from Ice Cream In Hell 2020

Ana Popovic - Object of Obsession from Live for Live 2020

Joanne Shaw Taylor - Can't You See What You're Doing To Me from The Blues Album 2021

Contemporary Blues Female Artist

Vanessa Collier - Bloodhound from Heart on the Line 2020 

Thornetta Davis - Can We Do It Again from Honest Woman 2016 

Ruthie Foster - Woke up This Morning from Live at the Paramount 2020 

Danielle Nicole - Save Me from Cry No More  2018

Carolyn Wonderland - Broken Hearted Blues from Tempting Fate 2021

Contemporary Blues Male Artist

Selwyn Birchwood  - Rock Bottom from Living In A Burning House 2021

Chris Cain - Down On The Ground from Raisin’ Cain 2021

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram - Something In The Dirt from 662 2021

Kenny Neal - Ain't Gon' Let the Blues Die from Bloodline 2016 

Mr. Sipp (Castro Coleman) - Gonna Be Alright from Sippnotized 2021

22-09-2019 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 2014-2019

22-09-2019 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 2014-2019 # Doyle Bramhall II, Larkin Poe, Cedric Burnside, Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues, Eric Gales, Handsome Jack, Guy Davis, Fabrizio Poggi, Joe Bonamassa, Kevin Selfe, Chris Duarte Group

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Austin, Texas-based guitarist who gained fame in the '90s as Eric Clapton's right-hand man and who pursued a blues-rock career of his own. 
Doyle Bramhall II
Hear My Train a Comin' (Jimi Hendrix) 5:08
Mama Can't Help You (Doyle Bramhall II / Kz Jones) 4:22
The Veil (Doyle Bramhall II / Kz Jones) 4:53
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.

Southern roots rock group led by Rebecca and Megan Lovell, formerly of the Lovell Sisters. Southern roots rockers Larkin Poe were formed around core members Rebecca and Megan Lovell, formerly the Lovell Sisters. A bit edgier and rockier than the Lovell Sisters, Larkin Poe's electric and slide guitar riffs quickly earned them comparisons to the Allman Brothers.
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 O. Burnside is an American electric blues drummer, guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is the son of blues drummer Calvin Jackson[3] and grandson of blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist R. L. Burnside. Amongst many others, Burnside has played drums, either live or on record, with R. L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, John Hermann, Kenny Brown, Richard Johnston, Jimmy Buffett, T-Model Ford, Paul "Wine" Jones, Widespread Panic, Afrissippi, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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.

020 ALTER.NATiON: weekly favtraX 10-02-2019

ALTER.NATiON #20

Mercury Rev, Susanne Sundfør, LCD Soundsystem, HEALTH, Cass McCombs, Galactic, Michael Chapman, Yak, Eric Gales, Beth Hart, Flat Worms, Skinny Girl Diet

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10-02-2019

Mercury Rev feat. Susanne Sundfør - Tobacco Road from Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited
Bobbie Gentry had a huge hit in 1967 with "Ode to Billie Joe," the haunting single that introduced her strong, sultry voice and flair for combining Southern Gothic drama with details so vivid that it feels like listeners are living her stories with her. She expanded on the world she built with that song on 1968's full-length The Delta Sweete, but unlike "Ode to Billie Joe," it was not a huge hit; its pioneering symphonic-country-folk-pop didn't even crack the top 100 of Billboard's Top LPs chart. Fortunately, the acclaim for Gentry's work grew as the years passed, and Mercury Rev's Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited reflects her latter-day status as a country icon. Of course, Mercury Rev also knows something about being underappreciated. During the '90s, their experimental rock and dream pop earned glowing reviews, but little in the way of label support or commercial success. That changed with their 1998 breakthrough, Deserter's Songs, which added touches of Americana that they return to on Revisited...

LCD Soundsystem - emotional haircut from Electric Lady Sessions
While out on their 2018 tour behind the comeback album American Dream, the full LCD Soundsystem band swung into Electric Lady studio in New York to record their live set plus a few covers. This was something they had done before on the London Sessions back in 2010 and much like that album, this is an important document of a band at the height of their powers (again.) Snapping through lively version of songs from the album, the group balances the various synths, drums and guitars into a lively, pulsing sound for James Murphy's always trenchant vocals. It's an act they've being pulling off for a long time and it still doesn't sound at all tired...  tracks that rage like Gang of Four at their best ("emotional haircut.") It also helps that the band play everything with passion and fire; like they are in a sweaty club instead of a legendary studio playing to no one...

HEALTH - Rat Wars from Vol. 4 :: Slaves of Fear
Since their return with 2015's Death Magic, HEALTH have added purpose and focus to their music, a trend they continue with Vol. 4 :: Slaves of Fear. To confront the chaos and despair that seemed to dominate the late 2010s, they add more weight to their lyrics and sound by giving Death Magic's industrial and synth pop leanings a stomping heft. The contrast between their crushing noise assaults and hollowed-out atmospheres is starker than ever, and on tracks like "Strange Days [1999]," the results are both wounded and wounding. HEALTH's juxtaposition of Jake Duzsik's soft vocals and the hard-edged sounds around them has always been striking, but it's never sounded more relevant, especially since they haven't forsaken any of Death Magic's hooky songwriting... Sometimes, Vol. 4 :: Slaves of Fear feels almost too successful at what it sets out to do, but as bleak as it gets, there's something special about its empathy and honesty.

Cass McCombs - Rounder from Tip of the Sphere
A little less a set of songs and more the spirit of a warm, smoke-shrouded Sunday afternoon spent somewhere in a generously upholstered chair, Tip of the Sphere arrives three years after singer/songwriter Cass McCombs' first Top 40 independent album, 2016's Mangy Love. Definitely not shooting for the charts here -- not that he ever was -- the album places McCombs' often sharp, sometimes meandering or halted ruminations in a context of a cosmic folk with sleepy '70s album rock inspirations. Musically as well as lyrically lost in thought for most of its playing time of nearly an hour...  The album is bookended by its longest tracks, with the ten-minute "Rounder" closing out the proceedings with steady drums, LoCastro's Fender Rhodes, Iead's pedal steel, and McCombs' gentle, prolonged guitar riffing. While a potential gem for certain Grateful Dead-philes and possibly off-putting to some even well-established fans, the album's diversions, textures, and McCombs' particular way with words should appeal to more than merely the Garcia set.

Galactic - Already & Ready Already from Already Ready Already
New Orleans' Galactic is one of the most restless acts to emerge from the jam band scene of the 1990s. With every album they've expanded their musical palette to embrace other sounds and styles while keeping the musical gumbo of their hometown squarely at the center of everything they do. Already Ready Already, their tenth offering, is the shortest record in Galactic's catalog: Its eight tunes total just 24 minutes, and it plays like a mixtape... Already Ready Already is bookended by two of three high-powered instrumentals, titled appropriately enough "Already" and "Ready Already." While the former is under two minutes, and the latter is under three, they offer twin impressions of intro and outro to the proceedings...

Michael Chapman - Truck Song from True North
True North couldn't be more of a contrast. This is almost a full-circle return to his earliest years as a recording artist; musically it charts directly from 1969's Rainmaker and 1970's Fully Qualified Survivor. True North couldn't be more organic. Gunn returns as producer, plays lead guitar, and alternates with Chapman on bass and drums (the latter used sparingly at best). Chapman's glorious, innovative, mantra-like fingerstyle playing guides every song, and with the exception of two fine instrumentals -- "Eleuthera" and "Caddo Lake" -- his ravaged, grizzled vocals undergird that authority. Along with Gunn, St. John is present, as is pedal steel legend B.J. Cole and cellist Sarah Smout... "Truck Song" shines as the whole band frames Chapman's searing, poetic lyric with lush accents tempered by rounded edges. The singer's voice becomes its own bassline as he juxtaposes physical apparitions with emotional ghosts. Smout's cello borrows inspiration from Nick Drake's "Hazy Jane I," in the margin, while Gunn and Cole paint the middle in subtle shades of blue...

Yak - Layin' It On The Line & Scattered Palms... from Pursuit of Momentary Happiness
Yak's world fell apart after the release of their debut Alas Salvation in 2016. Bassist Andy Jones split, leaving guitarist Oli Burslem as the band's clear leader, yet the group stumbled through sessions with producer Jay Watson -- best known as a member of Tame Impala -- winding up with nothing to call finished. Rallying with producer Marta Salogni, who previously worked on records by Goldfrapp and Björk. Salogni helps Yak ease into the psychedelic with Pursuit of Momentary Happiness. Where Alas Salvation teemed with physical pleasures, Pursuit of Momentary Happiness attempts to float on an astral plain, blending mind expansion with soul baring. Not that Yak decided to leave heavy guitars behind.

Eric Gales feat. Beth Hart - With A Little Help From My Friends from The Bookends
Eric Gales spent a good portion of his career in the wilderness -- chalk it up to a combination of bad breaks and addiction -- but he came storming back in 2017 with Middle of the Road, his first album for Provogue/Mascot Records. Peaking at four on the Billboard Blues chart, Middle of the Road brought Gales back in a big way, giving him the confidence to push himself on its 2019 sequel Bookends. Working with producer Matt Wallace -- a stalwart of '90s alt-rock who worked with Maroon 5 after spending time with the Replacements and Faith No More -- Gales doesn't reinvent the wheel, but he does place a greater emphasis on singing and song than he has in the past... By the time he teams up with guest vocalist Beth Hart for a slow-burning version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" -- the second notable cameo on the record...

Flat Worms - Surreal New Year from Into the Iris
If there is any cardinal sin in punk rock (or rock & roll in general), it's wasting time and boring the audience. Will Ivy, the main brain behind Flat Worms, clearly understands that, and the band have followed up their 31-minute debut album with 2019's Into the Iris, an EP that clocks in at 16 minutes and sounds leaner, meaner, and more concise all around. After an enthusiastic burst of opening feedback, Flat Worms kick off this set with the buzzy rant of "Surreal New Year," and if the tempo of the music varies a bit in the five songs that follow, the intensity does not -- this is superior-quality garage-centric noisemaking from folks who know how it's done...

Skinny Girl Diet - La Sirena from Ideal Woman
Following a series of increasingly visible self-released EPs, feminist punk combo Skinny Girl Diet made their long-awaited debut with 2016's appealingly cathartic Heavy Flow. At the time, the London-based group consisted of sisters Delilah and Ursula Holliday on guitar and drums, respectively, with their cousin Amelia Cutler on bass. With the subsequent departure of Cutler, the Hollidays opted to forgo bass altogether and carry on as a duo which is where their 2018 follow-up, Ideal Woman, finds them. Maintaining their D.I.Y. independence, the band again self-released the album in the U.K. -- in late 2018 -- with HHBTM Records handling things on the American front...

Mercury Rev, Susanne Sundfør, LCD Soundsystem, HEALTH, Cass McCombs, Galactic, Michael Chapman, Yak, Eric Gales, Beth Hart, Flat Worms, Skinny Girl Diet