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The Nighthawks: All You Gotta Do
by Doug Collette
On All You Gotta Do, The Nighthawks illustrate how they've established, then nurtured their vaunted status among the most venerated of American blues units for over four decades and upwards of twenty albums. The changes the band's seen under the tutelage of original founding member Mark Wenner continues unfettered on this self-produced album: the band alternately ...
Blues Deluxe 2
by Doug Collette
The cultural fragmentation of recent decades or so has resulted in such a multiplicity of niche categories that the blues community only benefits by its long-term loyalty to the genre. Yet even the oftentimes arbitrary nature of the categorization(s) can't prevent the cross-pollination of styles. And, reasonably speaking, who wants to argue the dividing lines between ...
Sugar Ray & The Bluetones: Seeing Is Believing
by Jim Trageser
Possessed of a rich timber on both vocals and harmonica, a keen ear for melody, and an unerring feel for the blues, New England's Sugar Ray Norcia had the grand career misfortune to begin breaking nationally just before the pop punk band Sugar Ray came on the scene and sowed confusion among music fans.
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers: Live in 1967 Volume Two
by Doug Collette
The release of Live in 1967 Volume Two does more than complement its companion piece released last year. With such archiving taking place coincidental with John Mayall's continuing activities in the studio and on the road, “The Godfather of British Blues" reaffirms his legacy as much as his commitment to this music.As with its ...
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers: Live in 1967
by Doug Collette
Because his career didn't directly ascend to a higher profile subsequent to his tenures in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, guitarist Peter Green's membership in the group doesn't receive as much prominence as that of, Eric Clapton who became an icon of contemporary or Mick Taylor, who joined the Rolling Stones for arguably the greatest albums of their ...
John Mayall at the YMCA Boulton Center For The Performing Arts
by Mike Perciaccante
John Mayall YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts Bay Shore, NY September 19, 2014 During John Mayall's long and storied career, the singer, songwriter, harmonica master, keyboardist and guitarist has used Chicago blues as the foundation for his signature sound, which also melds rock with a slight touch of ...
Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters: Good News
by Mike Perciaccante
Ronnie Earl first gained national attention in 1979 when he replaced Duke Robillard as the lead guitarist for Roomful Of Blues. After spending eight years as the main axeman in that group, Earl decided it was finally time to completely branch out on his own. Though Earl had released his first solo disc, Smokin', in 1983 ...
John Mayall: A Special Life
by Doug Collette
Redoubtable and self-motivated as ever Just shy of his eightieth birthday, John Mayall recorded an album with his current band late in 2013 that suggests in no uncertain terms he remains as potent a blues musician as the members of his group merely half his age. He titled A Special Life with the same knowing understatement ...
The Royal Southern Brotherhood at B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill
by Mike Perciaccante
The Royal Southern Brotherhood B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill New York, NY September 4, 2013 The Royal Southern Brotherhood is well-named. It is exactly what it should be: an all-star group of virtuoso musicians with roots in the south who play an amalgam of blues, soul, funk and southern- influenced ...
Tom Hambridge and George Thorogood: New York, NY, September 27, 2011
by Mike Perciaccante
Tom Hambridge and George Thorogood B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill New York, New York September 27, 2011 It was a cool Tuesday evening in New York city. Inside B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill, there were no signs of the so-called recession evident as the cash registers behind the ...
