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Alice Stuart: Can't Find No Heaven
by Robert Jarovi
Why is it that very few – and I mean very few – female blues guitarists get the respect they deserve in the recording industry today? Women have always been a powerful and (I believe) equal force in the genre known as the “blues”. Where would blues fans be without singers Bessie Smith, Ma ...
T-Model Ford: Bad Man
by Robert Jarovi
You know you're in for the real deal when 78-year-old James “T-Model" Ford shouts out the low-down truth. After a quick and dirty drum roll on this (studio) live set, he announces: “I'm a tail-dragger from Greenville Mississippi. I'm the boss of the blues. Can't read, can”t write, and don”t been to school a day in ...
Wabi Down Home Blues Project Band: The Best Things in Life Are Still Made By Hand
by Robert Jarovi
The story is very familiar: Young man hears blues legend (Howlin’ Wolf) on record and picks up an instrument (harmonica) for the next few years to master it. Many British and European youthfuls in the 60’s enacted this scene out ad nauseum. Except in this case the young man is from Japan - physically and culturally ...
Tracy Nelson: Ebony & Irony
by Robert Jarovi
This recording represents the anticipated follow up to Tracy Nelson’s well-regarded 1998 release, Sing It! with shouters Irma Thomas and Marcia Ball, and returns her to the country and blues feel of the earliest albums with her old band, Mother Earth. Ebony & Irony is on the eclectic records imprint from Relentless/Nashville and is produced by ...
Ken Saydak: Love Without Trust
by Robert Jarovi
It’s got to be hard to make a living as a blues pianist in Chicago nowadays. The legacy of those born or based in the Windy City is enough to intimidate the best-intentioned pianist: Jimmy Yancey, Maceo Merriweather, Roosevelt Sykes, Little Brother Montgomery, Willie Mabon, Johnny Jones, Sunnyland Slim, or Otis Spann. How do you add ...
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