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The Holmes Brothers: State of Grace
by Chris M. Slawecki
Wendell Holmes plays guitar, piano and sings, and Sherman Holmes plays bass and sings. When Popsy Dixon joins on drums and vocals, this trio transforms into the Holmes Brothers, the Blues Foundation's 2005 Band of the Year. Their three-part harmonies are honeyed country gospel, but their front-stoop funk and dark, broken-hearted tales are pure country blues.
We the People
Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: We the People; What Good is Life?; I Got Your Number; Runaway Train; Down that Road Again; Fine Cadillac; Can't Get Enough; A Hurt So Old; Who Needs It?; Blues in My Blood; Cost of Livin'; Sonic Boom.
Guitar Shorty: We the People
by Chris M. Slawecki
Each summer seems to offer one song that you just crank up and bust out at the top of your stereo while you cruise in your car... sort of your summertime theme. That song, this summer, was for me the title track from We the People. One of Texas' most venerated blues guitarists, Guitar ...
Corky Siegel
By Corky Siegel
Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Opus 17.2; Five Planets in Harmonica Convergence; Manhattan Island; Serenade; The Woofy Girl Stroll; Train; Opus 4 (1/2 of Opus 8).
Live! Down the Road
By Marcia Ball
Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Big Shot; The Right Tool for the Job; Just Kiss Me; That's Enough of That Stuff; Louella;
Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday; La Ti Da; It Hurts to Be in Love; Down the Road; No
Ordinary Woman; Crawfishin'; Louisiana 1927; Count the Days; Let Me Play With Your
Poodle.
Marcia Ball: Live! Down the Road
by Chris M. Slawecki
Marcia Ball showcases one great slow-rolling blues here: “Louisiana 1927, Randy Newman's dust bowl tale about a historic flood, into which she wholeheartedly dives and immerses herself. In perhaps her best singing of this entire set, she recoils from its last line as if in horror from nature's awesome devastation of person and property. ...
Corky Siegel: Corky Siegel
by Chris M. Slawecki
Harmonicat Corky Siegel is a four-decade veteran of the Chicago blues scene and co-leads the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band with guitarist Jim Schwall. Siegel held a long residency during the storied heyday of Pepper's Lounge in Chicago--ripping up and tearing down the blues with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and other legends--during which he was befriended ...
Simple Truths
Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Run Myself Out of Town; Shine; We Meet, We Part, We Remember; If I Needed You; Hey Baby; I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry; Everything Is Free; Big Boss Man; Opportunity to Cry; Concrete Jungle; You Won't Be Livin' Here Anymore; He'll Have To Go; I'm So Lonely
The Holmes Brothers: Simple Truths
by Chris M. Slawecki
The Holmes Brothers play rock 'n’ roll like a band that grew up playing the blues on Saturday night and then gospel in church on Sunday morning. Drummer Popsy Dixon, guitarist/keyboardist Wendell Holmes, and bassist Sherman Holmes play rough and tumble with the blues—but their vocal harmonies, most often casting Sherman’s baritone and Popsy’s falsetto in ...
