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Kuku: Ballads & Blasphemy
by James Nadal
Yorubaland is a region of southwest Nigeria which extends into parts of Benin and Togo. It is the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba people, and remains a vital source of cultural identity, especially spiritual music and rhythms. Kuku is a singer/songwriter who though born in the United States, is a Yoruba Nigerian, now residing in Paris. ...
Debby Moore: My Kind Of Blues
by James Nadal
For the record hounds (you know who you are) out there that seek and scavenge the garage sales and flea markets for old albums, there is such a thing as redemption. After scoring My Kind Of Blues by singer Debby Moore at a flea market for one dollar, further research revealed a mysterious back story with ...
Ruthie Foster: Singing The Blues
by James Nadal
Since releasing her first solo record less than a decade ago, Ruthie Foster has steadily gained momentum and respect within the music industry as a double threat singer/guitarist. With eight more albums in her discography, including the critically acclaimed The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn Music, 2007), she has risen to prominence in the Blues community, ...
Mem Nahadr: Femme Fractale - An Opera of Reflection
by James Nadal
Music genre categorization has exploded into so many fragments, that shrapnel is strewn in all directions as far as the ear can hear. In examining the vast minefield of definition for a proper description of the music of Mem Nahadr, we excavate the terms “neo-soul meets free-jazz," in hopes of further reference. Blessed with an operatic ...
Jackie Payne: I Saw The Blues
by James Nadal
Blues singers sing every song like it might be their last. They have been doing this for so long now that it always feels like the end is near, time is up, and it's the last time around. The songs are dripping with guilt, regret, and hope. They tell tales of lost love, what was, could ...
Bey Paule Band: Not Goin' Away
by James Nadal
San Francisco, though widely recognized for its cultural sophistication, and its contribution to the psychedelic sixties, has never been celebrated for being a blues town. Well, that is apparently changing, and this has been going on while the rest of the country is going about its localized music business. Spearheading this movement is the independent Blue ...
BOLO: BOLO
by James Nadal
There is an ancestral vocation that devout musicians draw inspiration and bearing from. Once on this chosen spiritual path, they enter into a mesmerizing plateau of creativity which is only accessible through profound belief in the task at hand, and a complete mastery of their instrument. The multi-instrumental trio of Surya Prakasha, Evan Fraser and Eliyahu ...
Daymé Arocena: Nueva Era
by James Nadal
In one of the most interesting commerce and art collaborations of recent times, Cuba's famed rum Havana Club, with its Havana Cultura project, has joined forces with the local Cuban artist community to promote Cuban culture throughout the world. Covering a wide variety of musical styles and genres while at the same time adhering to Cuban ...
Muddy Waters 100: Muddy Waters 100
by James Nadal
When a local guitarist and blues singer in Clarksdale, Mississippi named McKinley Morganfield made his first field recording at the Stovall plantation, on August 31, 1941, he had no idea where this music would take him. By the time he plugged his guitar into an amplifier on Chicago's Southside in 1943, he had become Muddy Waters, ...
Charenee Wade: Offering - The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson
by James Nadal
As it often happens with many artists so in tune with the times that they are actually ahead of their time, the immense contribution of musical/cultural revolutionary Gil Scott-Heron continues to be revealed and acknowledged. Albeit, there has been a perpetual cult surrounding this enigmatic figure which defied any sort of categorization both in music and ...
