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News: Video / DVD

"Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session" Scheduled for November Airing on PBS

"Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session" Scheduled for November Airing on PBS

Deluxe DVD of historical blues summit released on Stax Records LOS ANGELES, Calif.—PBS has announced that the Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan — In Session program will air as a special on its stations beginning November 27 and throughout the month of December (check local listings). Grammy Award winning bluesman Robert Cray will serve as ...

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News: Video / DVD

Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan 'In Session' Summit Now on DVD on Stax

Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan 'In Session' Summit Now on DVD on Stax

Guitar titans' one and only meeting to be released as a deluxe CD/DVD November 9th on Stax LOS ANGELES, Calif.—On December 6, 1983, legendary blues guitarist Albert King joined his disciple Stevie Ray Vaughan on a Canadian sound stage for the live music television series In Session. Magic happened. The highly sought after video footage from ...

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Article: Album Review

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather: Legacy Edition

Read "Couldn't Stand the Weather: Legacy Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette


The two-disc package of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's second studio Album, Couldn't Stand The Weather, adds to the legacy of this contemporary bluesman through a combination of studio outtakes and a complete concert recording. Disc one contains the original follow-up to Texas Flood (Epic, 1983), that effectively ignited a blues revival in ...

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News: Recording

New Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Live in Chicago Out September 28

Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records is excited to announce that latest signing Kenny Wayne Shepherd is releasing Live in Chicago, available on 9/28/10. Recorded in Chicago's House of Blues during the critically acclaimed 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads tour, Live in Chicago showcases Kenny and his band, Noah Hunt, Chris Layton, Scott Nelson and Riley ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Bettye Lavette: Interpretations - The British Rock Songbook

Read "Bettye Lavette: Interpretations - The British Rock Songbook" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Bettye Lavette Interpretations: The British Rock SongbookAnti- Records2010 Perennial also-ran Bettye Lavette, among the many very good 1960s Detroit soul singers not signed to Motown--others include Barbara Lewis, Deon Jackson and Edwin Starr--offers a concept album of sorts. An interesting concept, too: R&B covers of classic British rock ...

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Article: Live Review

Beale Street Music Festival 2010

Read "Beale Street Music Festival 2010" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis in May 2010 Tom Lee Park, FedEx Blues Tent, Memphis, Tennessee May 2, 2010 April, indeed, may be the cruelest of months, but I doubt that a blue-blood like Thomas Sterns Eliot ever spent the sweaty seasons in Hell that are Spring and Summer in the cultural ...

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Article: Album Review

Mississippi Heat: Let's Live it Up!

Read "Let's Live it Up!" reviewed by John Barron


Formed in 1991, Mississippi Heat has become one of the more popular modern blues bands out of Chicago. Led by harmonica great Pierre Lacocque, this high-energy ensemble has released nine recordings with a rotating cast of top-notch talent. On Let's Live it Up!, the group delivers a rocking set with the help of earthy vocalist Inetta ...

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News: For Sale

HDtracks is Proud to Present the Concord Music Group

HDtracks is Proud to Present the Concord Music Group

For the first time ever the Stax, Prestige, Fantasy, Heads Up, & Hear Music catalogs in HDtracks' amazing 96/24 sound. Here at HDtracks, it just keeps getting better and better. Now we have some of the greatest classic jazz, soul, blues, rock, and world music recordings ever done, sounding better than you could have ever imagined ...

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Article: Album Review

David Sanborn: Only Everything

Read "Only Everything" reviewed by Joel Roberts


Only Everything is alto saxophonist David Sanborn's second straight release paying homage to one of his greatest and earliest influences, Ray Charles. While some jazz purists may dismiss Sanborn as a slick TV personality and practitioner of smooth or pop jazz, he's always had firm roots in bluesy, R&B-based jazz, dating to his early days playing ...

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Article: Live Review

Duology + 2 at the London Jazz Festival

Read "Duology + 2 at the London Jazz Festival" reviewed by John Sharpe


Duology + 2 Cafe OtoLondonNovember, 13, 2009 The opening night of the London Jazz Festival provided a rare opportunity to hear clarinetist Michael Marcus and trumpeter Ted Daniel--two seasoned, but unsung denizens of the New York scene--in the intimate surroundings of Dalston's Cafe Oto. Marcus made his debut with ...


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