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Various: Blow'n the Blues: Best of the Great Harp Players
by Ed Kopp
With my 44th birthday staring me in the face, I recently decided to do something I’d contemplated since my teens: I decided to learn the harmonica.It wasn’t any special love for the instrument that finally motivated me to take up the harmonica. Rather, I had reached a brick wall while trying to hone my ...
Katherine Davis: Dream Shoes
by Ed Kopp
Katherine Davis is a Chicago songstress who digs the blues and jazz in equal measure. Her debut CD Dream Shoes features both forms of music, mostly in combination. It's a mellow but soulful listen, and a very classy effort.There's a Billie Holiday-like quality to Davis' voice, a kind of lazy vulnerability that underscores the ...
Various: Frett'n the Blues: Best of the Great Blues Guitarists
by Ed Kopp
Chicago,The Blues,Today! is the indispensable CD for any music fan interested in an overview of ‘60s Chicago blues. That said, Frett’n The Blues is a decent sampler, too, and a good buy considering it delivers 77 minutes of classic blues on one CD.With 21 cuts lifted from some of Vanguard’s finest ‘60s recordings (including ...
Toni Lynn Washington: Good Things
by Ed Kopp
Toni Lynn Washington sings no-nonsense R&B for discerning adults. You won’t find any needless vocal gymnastics, puerile posturing or annoying electronic effects on this lady's recordings – just soulful, mature songs from a savvy singer and her accomplished horn-based band.Washington is known as Boston’s queen of the blues, but she’s less a blues belter ...
Francine Reed: Shades of Blue
by Ed Kopp
When Francine Reed isn't singing backup with Lyle Lovett's Large Band, you might find her exercising her deep, soulful voice at two different venues in her adopted hometown of Atlanta. Some nights she belts out blues and R&B at Blind Willie's, a smoky blues joint in Virginia Highlands. Or, when the mood strikes, Reed performs swanky ...
Sam Lay Blues Band: Rush Hour Blues
by Ed Kopp
Name any Chicago bluesman from the past 40 years, and Sam Lay has probably banged the drums behind him. Few blues skinsmen have more experience than Lay, who is best known for his stints with Howlin’ Wolf (six years), the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (until late '66) and Bob Dylan (Lay was drummer for Dylan's legendary ...
Coco Montoya: Suspicion
by Ed Kopp
Coco Montoya is a guitar-wielding blues-rocker whose voice and songs are indistinguishable from those of a hundred other blues-rockers. But when Montoya launches into one of his extended guitar solos, you just can't help but crank that volume knob. By the end of the CD you’re hopping around the room playing air guitar while the neighbors ...
Super Chikan: What You See
by Ed Kopp
You're probably dying to know how a dude comes by a nickname like “Super Chikan," so let's deal with that issue up front. When James Louis Johnson worked as a cab driver in Clarksdale, Miss., he became notorious for his lead foot. He acquired the nickname “Quick Chicken," which somehow got altered to “Super Chikan," and ...
Yoko Noge and the Jazz Me Blues Band: Yoko Meets John
by Ed Kopp
Hate to disappoint John Lennon fans, but this is not a previously unknown recording of blues covers by the ex-Beatle and Yoko Ono. The Yoko who appears on this CD is instead Yoko Noge, a Japanese business reporter and pianist who became so smitten with the blues that she relocated from Osaka to Chicago to further ...
Sax Gordon: You Knock Me Out
by Ed Kopp
In post-World War II America, two new strains of jazz competed for the public's attention: the bop of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and the honking jump-blues made famous by saxophonists Red Prysock and Big Jay McNeely, among others. The latter style nearly died out with the advent of rock 'n roll, but a succession of ...
