Tag Archives: blues music

Patrick McGinley & Family Style’s Patrick, Family & Friends; Bob Neuwirth’s Havana Midnight; and Graham Parker’s Deepcut to Nowhere

Posted on 3rd October 2024 by Diverse Voices

Rebecca Swain wrote this review. McGinley’s in Italy with the blues guys, Neuwirth’s in Cuba with the classical musicians, and Parker is, apparently, just in a tizzy. Here’s the scoop. On Patrick McGinley’s enjoyable live (or at least partly live) … Continue reading →

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Funks Grove’s Albuminium Blue

Posted on 16th April 2024 by Gary Whitehouse

Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. In checking back to see what I thought about Funks Grove when I reviewed their EP last May, I find that I wrote: “And here’s one more damn fine folk- based band out of the … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ Deep River of Song: Virginia and the Piedmont

Posted on 26th February 2024 by Diverse Voices

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Another disc in the Alan Lomax series Deep River of Song, Virginia and the Piedmont has the fitting subtitle of “Minstrelsy, Work Songs, and Blues.” These great archival recordings are just the thing for … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia

Posted on 26th February 2024 by Diverse Voices

Brendan Foreman wrote this for Folk Tales. In 1978 Alan Lomax, looking back at a decades-long career of field-recording, began to review the huge library of music that he and his father, John Lomax, had compiled in the 1930s and … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ Deep River of Song: Big Brazos: Texas Prison Recordings, 1933 and 1934

Posted on 26th February 2024 by Diverse Voices

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Another set of field recordings made by the Lomaxes, Big Brazos focuses on the songs of the black work gangs in the early 1930s. It’s an interesting disc, another one of those brief moments … Continue reading →

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Geoff Muldaur’s Blues Boy

Posted on 8th November 2023 by David Kidney

Geoff Muldaur’s recent comeback albums (Secret Handshake and Password) have sparked his old label to release this 12-track compilation of tunes from the early years. Long out of print, the albums Muldaur made for Flying Fish Records were recorded in … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ From Hell To Gone And Back: Texas Blues

Posted on 6th November 2023 by Diverse Voices

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. And so here we are, past the effective 100 year anniversary of the blues idiom – if you reckon by W.C. Handy’s rise to prominence – and Vanguard Records’ 50th. To celebrate, Vanguard’s reissue … Continue reading →

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TW Henderson & the Blues of Cain, The Wilderness Years

Posted on 6th November 2023 by Diverse Voices

Jeff Skolnik wrote this review for Folk Tales. The brand new Bluetrack Records label, based in Oxford, U.K., purports to have as its goal the preservation of the works of lesser-known blues artists. They chose, for their first outing, to … Continue reading →

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Chris Whitley’s Hotel Vast Horizon

Posted on 21st September 2023 by David Kidney

Chris Whitley first took center stage with a stunning debut album called Living With The Law in 1991. Slide guitar, solid rhythms and Chris’s vocals in a Lousiana gumbo … it was beautifully funky. After a couple of changes of … Continue reading →

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Shane Simpson’s More Electric

Posted on 27th July 2023 by Peter Massey

It seems Canada is fast becoming a Mecca of undiscovered talent – for new artists previously unheard of on this side of the pond at least. This was certainly the case for me when I got my copy of More … Continue reading →

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