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Geoff Muldaur’s Blues Boy

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

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

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

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

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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Taj Mahal: A Career Overview, 1966-2002

Rising Sons’ Rising Sons: featuring Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder (recorded 1966, issued Sony, 1992) Taj Mahal’s Taj Mahal (Sony 1967, re-issued 2000) Taj Mahal’s The Natch’l Blues (Sony 1968, re-issued 2000) Taj Mahal’s Giant Step/De Old Folks At Home … Continue reading

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The Doors’ The Best of The Doors

“The computer sent exact duplicates of John Densmore’s drums and Robby Krieger’s guitar pouring out of the PA; and with a synthesizer patch that was a perfect clone of Ray Manzarek’s dispassionate organ, Devi allowed herself the joy of escaping … Continue reading

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A Jackie Washington omnibus review

Jackie Washington’s Blues & Sentimental (Knight II Records, 1970) out of print Ken Whiteley, Jackie Washington, Mose Scarlett’s Where Old Friends Meet (Borealis Records, 1991) Jackie Washington’s Keeping Out of Mischief (Borealis Records, 1995) Jackie Washington’s Midnight Choo Choo (Borealis … Continue reading

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Gary Moore’s Bad For You Baby

More blues, from across the Atlantic. Gary Moore is from Ireland, and played with Phil Lynott in Thin Lizzy (to name just one band he belonged to). I was fairly excited to hear about this new CD, and when it … Continue reading

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Kelly Joe Phelps’s Brother Sinner And The Whale

Kelly Joe Phelps has gone back to the well and emerged with a deeply satisfying album of deeply spiritual songs. Brother Sinner And The Whale is Phelps’s 10th album since his 1994 debut Lead Me On on Portland, Oregon’s independent … Continue reading

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