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Burn The House Down

By Ghalia Volt

Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: No Ice Please; Mine; Ride; Where Do We Go; Wrong Horse; Lucifer’s Grip; Wreckin’ & Rollin’; Burn the House Down; River Song; Let Yo’ Hair Down: Black and White.

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Ghalia Volt: Burn The House Down

Read "Burn The House Down" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

It is certainly no coincidence that Ghalia Volt's adopted moniker suggests power, specifically the electric sort. Anglicized from the original Belgian, the name intimates dynamism, the likes of which have similarly pervaded her previous albums, such as One Woman Band (Ruf Records, 2021), though not to the same degree as Burn The House Down. The music ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Canned Heat and The Fabulous Thunderbirds: All Blues

Read "Canned Heat and The Fabulous Thunderbirds: All Blues" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Legitimate practitioners of the blues realize full well their vocation is a life-long enterprise, neither a passing fad to be followed nor a mere whim to be pursued. It is thus simple to recognize the authentic figures in the field in contrast to the posers: the histories of the former encompass decades, not just years or ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Sass Jordan & Dana Fuchs: Two Chanteuses' Blues

Read "Sass Jordan & Dana Fuchs: Two Chanteuses' Blues" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

When performed with style, grace and depth of feeling, singing the blues is a wonder to behold. But when such virtues are replaced by histrionics, affectation and musical self-indulgence, the performers and the performances fall flat. In building their respective careers of no little renown, Sass Jordan and Dana Fuchs have both proven they can deliver ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Henry Kaiser & Rome Yamilov and Bernard Allison: Blues Changes

Read "Henry Kaiser & Rome Yamilov and Bernard Allison: Blues Changes" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Is blues music the most mutable of all musical forms? It's a question worth asking when taking into account the expanse of styles within the genre that stretch all the way from the skeletal acoustic likes of Son House and Reverend Gary Davis to the earthshaking electric onslaughts of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Henry ...

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Heart Of Fire

By Ally Venable

Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Heart Of Fire; Played The Game; Hateful Blues; Road To Nowhere; Bring On The Pain; Hard Change; Do It In Heels; Sad Situation; Use Me; Tribute To SRV; What Do You Want From Me.

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One Woman Band

By Ghalia Volt

Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Last Minute Packer; Espiritu Papago; Can't Escape; Evil Thoughts; Meet Me In My Dreams; Reap What You Sow; Loving Me Is A Full Time Job; It Hurts Me Too; It Ain't Bad; Bad Apple; Just One More Time.

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Ally Venable: Heart Of Fire

Read "Heart Of Fire" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

The virtues so readily apparent on guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Ally Venable's last album, Puppet Show (Connor Ray Music, 2018), remain fully in evidence on her Ruf Records debut. It is telling, however, that for Heart Of Fire, the sultry poses she struck on the cover of the previous LP give way to those focusing on the way the ...

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Ghalia Volt: One Woman Band

Read "One Woman Band" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

As pictured on the cover of One Woman Band, songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ghalia Volt radiates such a commanding presence that it's hard not to imagine the array of musical instruments displayed alongside her coming to life all on their own. In a very real sense, though, that's exactly what the Brussels Belgium-born blues-woman accomplishes on this third album ...

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Article: Blues Deluxe

Spring 2020

Read "Spring 2020" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. David Clayton-Thomas Say Somethin' Linus Entertainment 2020 Circa “Spinnin' Wheel" plus “And When I Die," ...


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