Relieved from the pressures of having to record a hit single, Gary Moore cuts loose on some blues standards as well as some newer material. Moore plays better than ever, spitting out an endless stream of fiery licks that are ...

While the vast majority of post-punk bands who have an obvious taste for the blues seem to enjoy taking the style apart and messing around with the bits and pieces, the Black Keys are the (relative) traditionalists within the subgenre. ...

Among the many rarities on this 2-CD set are 4 tracks from THE PROPHET (Buchanan's unreleased 1st LP) and a lengthy, previously-unreleased, live version of Neil Young's "Down By The River." This substantial two-disc Polydor set culls some of the finest ...

NICK OF TIME was the 1989 Grammy winner for Album Of The Year. Although famed primarily for her interpretation of compositions by the likes of Joni Mitchell, John Hiatt, James Taylor and Paul Brady, NICK OF TIME includes two fine Raitt-penned ...

Getting his big break as Sam Cooke's replacement in the Soul Stirrers, vocalist Johnnie Taylor may have started out in gospel, but he truly hit his stride (at least as a viable pop artist) when he shifted to R&B and ...

Johnny "Guitar" Watson was renowned as a bluesman during the 1950s and '60s, but in the '70s the vocalist/multi-instrumentalist turned his talents to funk. As the cover of 2005's FUNK ANTHOLOGY playfully illustrates, the Texas-born performer was essentially a one-man ...

A household name in both the U.K. and U.S. thanks to his long-standing 30-year comedy career, and more recent starring role in medical drama House, multi-talented Hugh Laurie is also lesser-known as a versatile and accomplished self-taught musician. Produced by ...

As the godfather of go-go, Chuck Brown has few competitors. One of Washington, D.C.'s best-kept secrets, Brown essentially jump-started the scene known as go-go in the 1970s, and his high-energy, big-band funk sound and endless live shows epitomized the genre. ...

The modern blues world has its share of artists who excel in some areas but fall short in others. For example, someone who excels as a guitarist might be merely adequate as a singer; or, someone who excels as a ...

Both Jimi Hendrix and Gary Moore played guitar and sang with the soul of bluesmen and the drive of hard rockers. So who better to pay tribute to Hendrix at an August 2007 London Experience Hendrix launch of Hendrix's Live ...

One of the gospel-blues scene's best-kept secrets for over a decade, Texan singer/songwriter Ruthie Foster finally achieved some long-overdue mainstream recognition when her 2009 sixth studio effort, The Truth According to Ruthie Foster, picked up a Grammy nomination. By putting ...

The three siblings in Trampled Under Foot -- Danielle Schnebelen, lead vocals and bass; guitarist and vocalist Nick Schnebelen, and singer/drummer Kris Schnebelen -- are the children of blues musicians Bob & Lisa Schnebelen. The folks never made it big ...

Singer and songwriter Joan Osborne is no stranger to covering vintage soul, R&B, and blues. She did so on 2002's How Sweet It Is and 2007's Breakfast in Bed, and in the documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown. ...

50 original recordings over 2 hours of music, digitally remastered. Includes: Georgia on my Mind, What'd I Say, Mess Around, Sticks & Stones, Swanee River Rock, Ain't That Love, Mary Ann, Drown in my Own Tears, Let The Good Times ...

Recording information: Kilgore Studios, New York, NY (05/31/2011-06/02/2011); MSR Studios, New York, NY (05/31/2011-06/02/2011). Photographer: Stefan Falke. Arranger: Matt Munisteri. Personnel: Catherine Russell (vocals); Matt Munisteri (guitar); Dan Block (clarinet, alto saxophone); Andy Farber (tenor saxophone); Jon-Erik Kellso (trumpet); John Allred (trombone); Mark ...

Photographers: Derek O'Brien; Ashley Carter; Morgan Wommack. Personnel: Omar Dykes (vocals, electric guitar). Recording information: Wire Recording Studio, Austin, TX.

Recording information: Field Recording (01/2012); Signature Sounds, Pomfret, CT (01/2012). Photographer: Devin Dobbins-McCarthy. Personnel: Chris Smither (vocals, guitar); Anita Suhanin (vocals); David Goodrich (slide guitar, xylophone); Ian Kennedy (violin); Kris Delmhorst (cello); Jim Fitting (harmonica); Billy Conway (drums, percussion). Audio Mixer: Mark Thayer. ...

Recording information: MixMonsterz Studio, Apopka, FL. Personnel: Pat Travers (vocals, guitars, bass guitar); Doug Bare (piano, organ); Carl Cleaver (piano); Sean Shannon (drums). Audio Mixers: Mark Prator; John Wesley.

Those who find the pairing of '70s rock god Robert Plant with contemporary bluegrass queen Alison Krauss unlikely have probably not been paying attention to Plant's latter-day work, which is full of intimate, acoustic-flavored balladry. While the organic-sounding, low-key Plant/Krauss ...

Shepherd's reverence for his musical roots are centerstage on this CD/DVD package featuring the guitarslinger with rhythm section of bassist Tommy Shannon and drumer Chris slayton performing with some of the greatest blues players of our time as well as ...

Another year, another Gary Moore blues-rock album nearly interchangeable with the last. That's no problem for fans or even newcomers, because despite the surface similarities between releases, Moore never seems to be going through the motions for the sake of ...

A classic modern country album, THE TRIO is as pretty as music gets. The ethereal harmony vocals of three of popular music's sweetest swingers, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, would be enough--their harmonies couldn't have been closer if ...

The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Kenny Wayne Shepherd (vocals, guitar); Corey Sterling (vocals); Joe Nadeau (guitar); Jimmy Wallace (keyboards, percussion); Will Ainsworth (bass); Kevin Smith (drums). Since Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely death in 1990, there has been a fear that the ...

It's a sign of Joe Bonamassa's increasing profile that he got blues legend B.B. King to guest on his eighth album Black Rock -- and if what you're doing is good enough to rope B.B. in, there's not much reason ...

The first solo release by contemporary blues-based artist Keb Mo' mixes a reverence for traditional country blues with more streamlined elements of commercial pop. Despite a convincing "down-home" approach of gravel-textured vocals and superior slide work and finger-picking skills, Keb ...