Jazz Articles about Kevin McKendree

About Kevin McKendree

Album Review

Rick Vito is truly a top slide guitarist / USA and he has consistently been a top gun for decades. Vito, as with other State side sliders, including Duane Allman and Ry Cooder plus Brits such as Peter Green and Jeff Beck, were awed by domestic blues guitar master's including Elmore James, Robert Johnson and many other blues veterans. Streaks of blues often run through much of Vito's live and recorded work (as well as healthy offerings of rockabilly, occasional ...

Album Review

Peter Novelli: St. Amant Sessions

Read "St. Amant Sessions" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 7, 2015

Peter Novelli's St. Amant Sessions smacks of Tab Benoit's The Sea Saint Sessions (Telarc, 2003). For Benoit, the significance of Sea Saint Studios is that they are a NOLA landmark founded by Allen Toussaint. For Novelli, St. Amant, LA is up I-10 between NOLA and Baton Rouge. There, Brignac's Sound Shack resides and this is where, Novelli recorded his third collection, St. Amant Sessions. Both men play a brand of American and blues that can immediately be identified as from ...