Results for "Ruf Records"

Sass Jordan & Dana Fuchs: Two Chanteuses' Blues

by Doug Collette
June 11, 2022

When performed with style, grace and depth of feeling, singing the blues is a wonder to behold. But when such virtues are replaced by histrionics, affectation and musical self-indulgence, the performers and the performances fall flat. In building their respective careers of no little renown, Sass Jordan and Dana Fuchs have both proven they can deliver ...

Henry Kaiser & Rome Yamilov and Bernard Allison: Blues Changes

by Doug Collette
May 20, 2022

Is blues music the most mutable of all musical forms? It's a question worth asking when taking into account the expanse of styles within the genre that stretch all the way from the skeletal acoustic likes of Son House and Reverend Gary Davis to the earthshaking electric onslaughts of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Henry ...

Heart Of Fire

By Ally Venable

Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Heart Of Fire; Played The Game; Hateful Blues; Road To Nowhere; Bring On The Pain; Hard Change; Do It In Heels; Sad Situation; Use Me; Tribute To SRV; What Do You Want From Me.

One Woman Band

Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Last Minute Packer; Espiritu Papago; Can't Escape; Evil Thoughts; Meet Me In My Dreams; Reap What You Sow; Loving Me Is A Full Time Job; It Hurts Me Too; It Ain't Bad; Bad Apple; Just One More Time.

Ally Venable: Heart Of Fire

by Doug Collette
February 27, 2021

The virtues so readily apparent on guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Ally Venable's last album, Puppet Show (Connor Ray Music, 2018), remain fully in evidence on her Ruf Records debut. It is telling, however, that for Heart Of Fire, the sultry poses she struck on the cover of the previous LP give way to those focusing on the way the ...

Ghalia Volt: One Woman Band

by Doug Collette
February 1, 2021

As pictured on the cover of One Woman Band, songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ghalia Volt radiates such a commanding presence that it's hard not to imagine the array of musical instruments displayed alongside her coming to life all on their own. In a very real sense, though, that's exactly what the Brussels Belgium-born blues-woman accomplishes on this third album ...

Spring 2020

by Doug Collette
May 17, 2020

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. David Clayton-Thomas Say Somethin' Linus Entertainment 2020 Circa “Spinnin' Wheel" plus “And When I Die," ...

Ronnie Wood and Mike Zito: Tributes to Chuck Berry - Playin' Guitar Like Ringin' a Bell

by Doug Collette
December 25, 2019

Chuck Berry should be revered as one of American history's great storytellers. His depictions of people ("Johnny B. Goode"), places ("Memphis Tennessee) and things ("Rock and Roll Music") carried a vivid attention to detail further distinguished by the author's immediately recognizable electric guitar sound: marrying the blues with country music Berry set himself apart from forebears ...

Albert Castiglia: Up All Night

by Doug Collette
January 1, 2018

Make no mistake, the ambiguity in the title of bluesman guitarist/composer Albert Castilglia's seventh album, Up All Night, is a positive attribute. Because as much as he trades in the tried and true of the blues, as on the rough-and-tumble, “Hoodoo On Me," he manages to imprint a personal stamp on what he does.On ...

Up All Night

By Albert Castiglia

Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Hoodoo On Me; I Been Up All Night; Three Legged Dog; 95 South; Knocked Down Loaded; Quit Your Bitching; Woman Don't Lie; Unhappy House Of Blues; Delilah; Chase Her Around The House; You Got Me To That Place.