Rene Trossman Live In Prague Hold It! Guitarist and singer Rene Trossman cut his blues teeth in the small clubs of Chicago back in the ‘80s, which he sings about this on the [...]
Hipbone Slim And The Kneetremblers Tremblin’ Dirty Water Records Hipbone Slim’s universe collides with ours every so often. On the evidence of this [...]
Steve Cropper Fire It Up Provogue/Mascot Label Group Stax Records was one of the most revered labels of the 60s and 70s – at least where gritty, funky soul music is concerned. [...]
Lee Fields & The Expressions Big Crown Vaults Vol. 1 Big Crown Records “Genre: Soul/ Funk” this download states, and ain’t that the truth. Field’s [...]
Dr. John Gumbo Blues Cleopatra Records Dr. John was a raspy-voiced, early ‘60s, New Orleans born, rock ‘n’ roll and R&B guitarist and arranger, late-’60s night-tripping voodoo [...]
Junior Wells Blues Brothers Cleopatra Records Blues legend Junior Wells was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1934 and died early in 1998. A powerful singer and master harmonica [...]
Big Sugar Hemi-Vision (Deluxe Edition) Universal Music A quarter of a century on from its original release, the platinum-selling Hemi-Vision gets the big “deluxe” [...]
Squirrel Nut Zippers Lost Songs Of Doc Souchon Southern Broadcasting Jimbo Mathus and his crew continue to convert and subvert vintage jazz on this set, [...]
The Wailers One World Sony Music The Wailers–indivisible from Bob Marley of course, but the band has always been about creative musicians, needing not only to make a living [...]
Lee Fields Let’s Get A Groove On Daptone “How soul music used to be back in the day/When it was all rough, yeah, and nasty and genuine!”, sings Lee Fields on the [...]
Swamp Dogg Sorry You Couldn’t Make It Joyful Noise/Pioneer Works Press Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams (Jr.) began recording at the age of 12 in 1954 and has gone [...]
Various Artists Down In Jamaica: 40 Years of VP Records VP Records After the death of Bob Marley in 1981, international interest in Jamaican music [...]
Bedouin Soundclash Mass Easy Star/Mr. Bongo/Sony Canada Jay Malinowski and Eon Sinclair are back with the first Bedouin Soundclash album since 2010’s Light The Horizon. I’m not [...]
Common Let Love Loma Vista Recordings Actor, author, motivational speaker, and rapper Common showcases his positive attitude by examining all kinds of love on Let Love. Formerly known as [...]
Lil Berete Icebreaker New Gen/XL Recordings Things are moving fast for young Toronto rapper Lil Berete, with some strong singles over the last year or so now followed by his debut [...]
Lil Yachty Lil Boat 2 Universal Music Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty (“The King Of The Teens”, “King of The Youth”) has the admirable ability not to take himself too seriously, but [...]
Freddie McGregor Bobby Bobylon: Deluxe Edition Studio One This is one of those classic sets that should be on everyone’s playlist; it is almost inevitably [...]
Juicy J Rubba Band Business Kemosabe/Taylor Gang/Sony Music Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Juicy J, the rap veteran who dropped his first solo album in 2002, while he was [...]
