Blues / Folk

Nicholas Barron is Chicago music. He sings like those blues cats that used to play on Maxwell Street. He performs and writes a mix of Acoustic Folk, Blues and Soul music ; spiritual, real, and deeply poetic. He plays guitar in a style that is truly his own; at once percussive and highly rhythmic with big beautiful chords and in funky tunings with his original one man band attack.

Acoustic Blues

The Cosmic American Love Child Of Howlin Wolf and Link Wray!!! Known as a “musician’s musician”, his praises have been sung by everyone from Ben Harper to Brit guitar gods Eric Clapton & Mick Taylor. Since his 1996 debut recording, the all-acoustic BIG MAMA’S DOOR, Alvin Youngblood Hart has carried his musical message the world over.

Blues / Folk Rock

Dirt Floor is as musically raw and basic as the title implies. With nine of Whitley's unadorned country blues and ballads ... Whitley has tapped into some deep emotional reserves; in his voice and in his guitar playing are ghostly echoes both of black southern blues and ancient Celtic hill music.

Acoustic Blues

Harris shook up the blues scene with his 1995 debut release, Between Midnight and Day, a masterpiece of rural blues exploration. Ever since then, he’s been finding ways to extend the journey, composing new songs, reinventing old ones, following his instincts fearlessly wherever they might lead.

Acoustic Blues / Folk

Kelly Joe Phelps is the premier acoustic blues guitarist. For years his fans have been begging him to release a live CD. At last, Tap The Red Cane Whirlwind is the long-awaited opportunity to hear Kelly Joe recorded live in concert!

Acoustic Blues

American Gypsy, his most diverse album yet. He plays both electric and acoustic slide guitar, as well as his banjo, in music that runs from jazz-rock fusion in style to Celtic to rural blues. He also does some vocals, and proves himself to be a respectable and likable singer. The result is an album that is both entertaining and absorbing, with its intriguing mix of influences, often within a single tune, and his skill at putting a new spin on some old songs.

Electric Blues

From the Artist,This is the CD I’ve had head in my head for a while. With You & Me, we are trying something different, trying to extend the boundaries of traditional blues. In essence, we wanted to do our part in helping to redefine the sound of modern blues music.

Electric Blues

New York guitar phenom walks tall in the blues tradition with this third album, jettisoning fiery riffs inspired by John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Elmore James, SRV, and Albert Collins into the future with furious playing, a hard-rock sensibility, and a grizzled voice that owes a debt to Gregg Allman.

Electric Blues

Joe Bonamassa's Had to Cry Today is a 11-song tour-de-force from a young bluesman that brings back memories of early Albert Collins and Johnny Winter. Had to Cry Today is Joe's follow-up to Blues Deluxe, this one features a mix of originals and covers that blaze the trail onward for Bonamassa.

Fusion / Blues

Well to the Bone is Scott Henderson's third solo outing and perhaps his best to date. Unlike the first two releases, "Dog Party" and "Tore Down House" which were heavily blues influenced, "Well to the Bone" is somewhat of an enigma and hard to categorize into any one genre. Nevertheless, the songs and guitar compositions are probably the best Henderson has ever penned.

Electric Blues

Henderson strengthens his case for why he is an extremely versatile guitarist. His exceptional playing is supported by drums, bass, harmonica, keyboards, sax, flute, trumpet and trombone as well as the vocals of the great Thelma Houston and the somewhat lesser known, Masta Edwards.

Electric Blues

Scott Henderson's playng on this cd represents a blend of blues and fusion that works seamlessly with the composition. Henderson steps outside of the framework of your basic I-IV-V blues progression and displays a harmonic vocabulary that you would have to search far and wide to equal.

Electric Blues

"There are chords that chime, dance atop the beat, mutate in midair or huff like a harmonica. There are fast-picked overtones that arrive like a tuned hailstorm and gutsy nuances of distortion and feedback. The effects can be startling, but they're never gratuitous. They are the sounds of a musician who has deeply investigated his instrument without leaving his roots." —The New York Times

Electric Blues

In Step is a blues-rock album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released in 1989. The title In Step can be seen as referring to Vaughan's new-found sobriety, following the years of drug and alcohol use that eventually lead Vaughan into rehabilitation. It was also the final album of Vaughan's career; he died in a helicopter crash in 1990.

Electric Blues

Soul to Soul is the third studio album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and was released in 1985. Soul to Soul saw the addition of a new band member, keyboardist Reese Wynans, to the Double Trouble power trio. Wynans would stay with the group until Vaughan's death in 1990.

Electric Blues

Couldn't Stand the Weather is the second studio album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, released in 1984.

Electric Blues

Texas Flood is an electric blues album by blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). More popular than any blues album in nearly twenty years, Texas Flood was a surprise success for Vaughan, who had labored in obscurity for years.