Shemekia Copeland has never had a problem making herself heard. She fully inhabits any venue she appears in, live or on record. Her instrument is as awe-inspiring as a pipe organ, her vocals delivered with such intensity that you can […]
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Like a raucous dance party spiked with plenty of red-hot crawfish and ice-cold beer, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and the Zydeco Twisters bring a taste of Louisiana to any venue they visit. Carrying on the tradition upheld by dad Alton Rubin, […]
Jontavious Willis doesn’t just play the blues, he inhabits that space so thoroughly that there’s not much room for anybody else. The Greenville, Georgia, native got a career jumpstart in 2015 at the age of 19 when Taj Mahal invited […]
It’s a gathering of royalty, but you won’t find this bunch up on thrones. With juke joints as the dream team Memphis Royal Brothers’ palaces, stages are about as elevated as they get. But the music takes it higher, to […]
Charlie Overbey has had a fistful of labels hung on him over his career: Cowpunker, rocker, outlaw countryman, Americanan, and even hatmaker. But Overbey opens his latest, In Good Company, with “Punk Rock Spy,” containing his own descriptor: “The punk […]
Billy Strings had to throw a tantrum to get his first real guitar. Exposed to dad and friends jamming in the kitchen of the family trailer from the vantage point of his high chair, Strings was gifted a toy guitar […]
J.P. Soars has always turned heads wherever he shows up to play. Opening for Johnny Winter a few years back, the singer and guitarist held the crowd in place for his entire set and made a bucketload of new converts […]
As befits a wandering troubadour, Marques Morel has a plethora of tales from the road. The Illinois native has polished his world-weary persona over decades of drifting, speaking the language of the street, voicing the thoughts of the down and […]
Jenny Don’t must have gotten tangled up in Wanda Jackson’s DNA somewhere along the line. Cowpunkery is Don’t’s advertised stock-in-trade, but Jackson’s rockabilly heart bleeds into her music like a busted artery squirting in all directions. For her latest, Broken […]
The feet are the same, but there’s a new voice above them. For Sam’s Place, Little Feat’s first studio album in 12 years, they bring conga player Sam Clayton to the mic for the whole session. Clayton has been in […]
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