Powerhouse 7-piece Southern soul, blues and roots rock band Bywater Call have announced a September 2nd world-wide release date for their new album, Remainon Gypsy Soul Records, distributed in the US by Alliance Entertainment, in Canada by Warner Music and in Europe by Proper Music. Powered by the dynamic vocals of Meghan Parnell and the … Read more
“There is so much love in this whole project for us to do this album, Blues for Breakfast, and put it together this way. I just hope that people love it as much as we do, you know? It’s not the greatest record we’ve ever made or the greatest one I’ve ever been on,” says … Read more
Words by Stuart Stott and Colin Campbell. First band up was the Glasgow-based Blue Milk, consisting of four excellent musicians: Johnny McGiffen (lead singer and guitarist), Taylor Whyte (drums), Ike Malinki (bass), and Leo Glaister (harmonica). Together they take the blues genre to a contemporary level, mixing their own feel and giving a very authentic, … Read more
Lucille Bogan is best known as arguably the most hardcore blues artist of the pre-war era. What we familiarly call Hokum Blues, was also known in the early 20th Century as simply Dirty Blues, and Lucille was the unabashed queen. Here are some things you may not know about her. Disputed Origins: Lucille Bogan was … Read more
“’Blood On My Hands’ being the title track says a lot,” Emanuel Casablanca Tell me of his debut album, to be released August 19, 2022 via Kings County Blues. The 16-song collection lays bare his abilities as a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist as well as bridges the gulf between the case-hardened persona and one’s inner … Read more
Some describe the 1970s as the decade of giving rise to the singer-songwriter. Turn on the radio back then and chances are a song by Dan Fogelberg, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Dan Hill, Laura Nyro, Jim Croce, or Gordon Lightfoot would be playing. One of the earliest singer-songwriters to make audiences sit up and take … Read more
Are you Ready? Roar! (repeat) Are You READY? Louder roar. (repeat) ARE YOU READY! Get your hands together for Vintage Trouble! The band entered the stage and took their customary, band-only moment in a pre-game, back-to-the-audience huddle before opening with new song “Love With Me.” This full tilt, hands-in-the-air, rocker broke the sweat and supercharged … Read more
Singer-songwriter and Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer Tom Skinner, a member of Garth Brooks’ early band, is hailed as a founding father of the Red Dirt music movement. Before passing away in 2015, his final wish was that his musical collaborators carry on the weekly Wednesday Night showcases he founded – a regular event known … Read more
Early Times grew up in Sacramento, CA and lives in New York. While in Sacramento, early operated Fantasia Music, a record label that had international distribution through Bayside. He released Society for the Misunderstood (Best CD in Sac This Week); Hobo Deluxe (Best CD nomination Sacramento Area Music Awards); The Comedown (Best CD nomination Sacramento … Read more
For a genre that purports to be “the truth,” blues has forever been behind the times in addressing the 800 lb. gorilla in the room. And that is, the prejudice in race relations that’s been so eloquently brought into focus in the Me Too movement. Pain and suffering have played a big role in blues … Read more