Shemekia Copeland America’s Child Alligator Records Shemekia Copeland put forth an effort this time that is both introductory and ground breaking, as she is stretching beyond the ground she has covered to include brand new dimensions and facets […]
Shemekia Copeland America’s Child Alligator Records Shemekia Copeland put forth an effort this time that is both introductory and ground breaking, as she is stretching beyond the ground she has covered to include brand new dimensions and facets […]
“I’m not like everybody else,” Shemekia Copeland announces rather unnecessarily on her latest, America’s Child. Copeland’s sound has always been unique, bold, and brassy, attitude coming off her in waves. Since her ’98 debut, Turn The Heat Up, the 39-year-old […]
As someone who’s been at the forefront of at least two musical uprisings – the electric blues/rock boom of the early ‘60s with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and as a solo artist during southern rock’s heyday in the ‘70s […]
Selwyn Birchwood Pick Your Poison Alligator Records This extraordinary young blues songwriter and guitarist has a strong musical foundation. The music that truly awakened him first was Jimi Hendrix, and then Hendrix opened up the world of the blues […]
You are going to want to get up and move to this gentleman’s raucous, rowdy, randy, intense, joyful music. He has been playing the blues for over 30 years and comes by them genetically and naturally from his uncle, slide […]
“I call it gut-bucket blues,” guitarist Lil’ Ed Williams says of his hard-driving Chicago blues sound, “’cause it gets down in the gut and makes you move around.” Nephew of the legendary slide guitar bluesman J.B. Hutto, Lil’ Ed and […]
If Alligator Records didn’t exist, somebody would have to invent it. Over the years it’s become one of those things you take for granted, but one no blues fan could do without it. The umbrella that founder Bruce Iglauer erected […]
There’s a short list of guys that can still do this and it’s getting shorter every day. Johnny Adams, O.V. Wright, Johnnie Taylor, all have gone. Otis Clay is the most recent departure. But thank God Curtis Salgado is still […]
This is far and away the most exciting disc to cross this desk in ages; there are eleven songs here, by nine artists and if you are good at figuring you will realize that 2 singers get to do 2 […]
This thing is so powerful, it’s intimidating. It’s like being thrown across a room and pinned to a wall by some unseen, immovable force. You might not have heard of Blind Willie Johnson, but his music has been the backbone […]
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