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Blues Singer Wayne Baker Brooks Releases New Single | EP, “Tricks Up My Sleeves” Coming Soon

Wayne Baker Brooks has more
“Tricks Up His Sleeves”


Blues
Island Records announces the upcoming release of Wayne Baker Brooks’ new
track “I Can Read Your Mind” from the much-anticipated EP “Tricks Up My
Sleeves”

Brooks commemorates the beginning of “Black Music
Month” and pays homage to all the Blues Legends we’ve lost recently with
this new track. Blues Island Records makes the digital release of his
new single available online June 5th just in time for the 2012 Chicago
Blues Fest. To continue, please click “MORE”!

New DVD: John Lee Hooker’s “Cook With The Hook: Live 1974” | Coming June 19th, 2012

John Lee Hooker
“Cook With The Hook: Live 1974”
on DVD June 19


On Saturday, July 6, 1974, Mississippi-Delta bluesman John Lee Hooker was one of the star attractions at an all-day festival attended by 6,000 people. The event in the town of Gardner Massachusetts was called “Down in the Dumps” perhaps the first in what was proposed as a series of musical events to be held in the city landfill area. Luckily, very luckily, Hooker’s performance was captured on a three camera shoot and broadcast on cable television in local cities and towns. To continue, please click “MORE”!

New Blues Release: Johnnie Bassett | “I Can Make That Happen” (Coming June 19th, 2012)

BLUES GUITARIST JOHNNIE BASSETT REUNITES WITH CELEBRATED DETROIT BAND THE BROTHERS GROOVE FOR I CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN



AVAILABLE JUNE 19 ON SLY DOG RECORDS

 

 LISTEN TO STREAMING TRACKS FROM I CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN

   

Guitarist Johnnie Bassett is a special bluesman, possessing a certain inspired individuality and skill set rarely found these days. In a career dating back to the early 1950s, the spry 76-year-old has earned many accolades–just last year he copped Detroit Music Awards for “Outstanding Blues/R&B Instrumentalist” and “Outstanding Blues Artist/Group.” To continue, please click “MORE”!

Leela James & Shanachie Entertainment to Release, “In The Spirit of Etta James” This Spring 2012

LEELA JAMES AND SHANACHIE ENTERTAINMENT JOIN FORCES TO PAY HOMAGE TO ROCK AND ROLL AND BLUES HALL OF FAMER
 ETTA JAMES



WITH IN THE SPIRIT OF ETTA JAMES DUE OUT SPRING 2012


Rock and Roll and Blues Hall of Famer Etta James possessed one of the most emotive, powerful and riveting voices in music. The iconic singer could belt out raunchy blues, rock with the best of them and transform a number into a tender ballad bringing out all the right subtle nuances that made her one of a kind. Critically heralded young singer Leela James harnesses the same innate ability to communicate a song with great depth and emotion. Leela James, with her raw soulful voice, high-energy performances and wild-child image, is in many ways the “Etta James” of her generation, with some comparing Leela directly to the soul legend. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Jug Band ‘SANKOFA’ to Release New CD, “The Uptown Strut” on March 27th, 2012

Modern Jug Band SANKOFA To Release
The Uptown Strut
On March 27th Via Kingswood Records



Album Features Dom Flemons Of Carolina Chocolate Drops

New York, NY: In February 2006, Sankofa Strings, a progressive collective comprised of percussionist Sule Greg Wilson along with multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons and singer Rhiannon Giddens, from the Grammy-Award Winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, were taped in concert for inclusion in the award-winning jug band documentary Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost, a film which chronicles a worldwide quest to assemble a comprehensive lineage to Gus Cannon, a seminal figure in the history of American music. To continue, please click “MORE”!

New Blues Release: Sista Monica Parker | “Living In The Danger Zone” (Avail Now)

Blues Woman Sista Monica Parker is Back with a Vengeance – Living in the Danger Zone CD Release Tour Underway


Sista
Monica Parker, internationally known as “The Lioness of the Blues, ”
croons, testifies, and roars audiences through the thrill and the pain
of loving dangerously in her newly released CD, “Living in the Danger
Zone.” With elements of her roots in R&B and gospel, this
contemporary blues album has reviewers singing praises and live
audiences clasping their hearts, clapping their hands, singing along,
and getting up to dance. To continue, please click “MORE”!

New Blues Release: Billy Cox | “Old School Blue Blues” (Avail Now)

OLD SCHOOL BLUE BLUES OUT NOW FROM BILLY COX

The Blues ain’t perfect; the Blues is life. – Billy Cox

 
In 2009 Billy Cox was inducted into The Musicians Hall Of Fame; in 2010 he was honored with Experience Music Project’s Founders Award and earlier this year he was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall Of Fame.  With the honors and accolades pouring in, thick and fast, it would be understandable if he were to rest on his laurels. But that’s just not the Billy Cox way.  He’s been a music man in motion for more than 50 years and shows no signs of slowing down. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Blues Singer Otis Taylor Releases “Contraband” on Feb. 13th, 2012

HAUNTING, HYPNOTIC GROOVES FROM ICONOCLASTIC TRANCE BLUESMAN OTIS TAYLOR ON NEW CD


Otis
Taylor’s Contraband features Cassie Taylor, Larry Thompson, Anne
Harris, Jon Paul Johnson, Chuck Campbell, Ron Miles, The Sheryl Renee
Choir and more

BOULDER, Colo. — Otis Taylor isn’t defined by
any single category. A musical alchemist and a true innovator, Taylor
has never been afraid to experiment beyond the blues tradition. He’s a
master craftsman who has created his own signature “trance blues” style
by melding haunting guitar and banjo work, syncopated rhythms and a
combination of gruff vocals, shouts and yells with raw passion. To continue, please click “MORE”!

Legendary Etta James Retires With New Release/Final Studio Project “The Dreamer” on Oct. 25th, 2011


 
Legendary Etta James Retires With the Release of Her Final Studio Album The Dreamer on October 25
 
LOS ANGELES Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — For over half a century, Etta James has all but defined the role of the quintessential rhythm & blues vocalist. She transcends all musical categories and styles with a recording career that spans more than five decades.

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