Track Listing: The Healer; I'm In The Mood; Baby Lee; Cuttin' Out; Think Twice Before You Go; Sally Mae; That's Alright; Rockin' Chair; My Dream; No Substitute;

Derek Trucks started out as a young guitar prodigy playing alongside his uncle Butch in the Allman Brothers Band, but began following his own path in the late 1990s. ALREADY FREE is the result of a decade-plus spent sharpening his ...

In the two years following Eric Clapton's appearance at George Harrison's 1971 Concert For Bangladesh, the former guitar god took a sabbatical from playing, due to a number of personal problems. Alarmed at the state that his friend had fallen ...

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. ...

Texas guitarist Gary Clark Jr. mixes up blues, jazz, soul, and rock as well as any player on the scene, and his two-song, four-track EP The Bright Lights only underscores things -- Clark is the real deal. Two of these ...

Recorded live at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City on September 10, 2003, this stirring set features guitarist Jeff Beck, backed by drummer Terry Bozzio and keyboardist Tony Hymas, spinning out solid and often hauntingly ...

Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (Universal Mastering Studios East). Singer/harmonica player/guitarist John Mayall was best known as a key figure in the '60s British blues boom, fronting a band containing future members of Cream, Fleetwood Mac, and Colosseum among others. However, ...

This varied, budget-priced, four-disc set collects seven of the great Ray Charles' Atlantic Records LPs, plus an LP from ABC Records in the same package, which means one hears Charles in all sorts of formats, with small combos, at the ...

One of those influential "musician's musician" types, vocalist/harp-player Delbert McClinton was able to call on the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty and Melissa Etheridge for support on Never Been Rocked Enough. The results cover the whole checkerboard while remaining ...

These stars share the stage to pay homage to the master of blues. NTSC/Region 0. Limited edition DVD/CD combo! Blues legend B.B. King is joined by some of his musical friends in this 1987 live performance. Joining the guitarist on stage ...

Perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that a band so often defined by its guitarists takes on a different character once the lead singer -- the only constant in the group since its beginnings in the mid-'70s -- definitively asserts ...

This budget-priced box set from Real Gone Jazz spans four discs and includes eight of the Queen of the Blues' best albums in chronological order, including Dinah Jams (1954), For Those in Love (1955), In the Land of Hi-Fi (1956), ...

Joanne Shaw Taylor has the looks of a cherub, with a round baby face and a shock of blonde hair that makes her look even younger than her 26 years. But when she picks up her guitar and starts tearing ...

When their hugely influential groups (Cream and Traffic, respectively) disbanded, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood made rock history when they joined forces in the short-lived Blind Faith in the late 1960s. Forty years later these legends collaborated again, selling out ...

When he died in 1984 at the relatively young age of 48, Z.Z. Hill went down in history as a great blues singer. But he was also an excellent soul singer, and this 1990 CD reminds us that he had ...

Robert Cray is a dependable, professional performer who has been criticized for being too reserved on-stage. He loosens his tie on this set though, recorded at a single show in February 2010. The veteran frontman tears into his staccato guitar ...

Recording information: Billunatic Studio, Huntington Station, NY; EEGoes Over Productions, Nashville, TN; Lunatunes, Ashland, OR; The Spear Room, Marin County, CA; WorkDog Studios, Cincinnati, OH. Personnel: Craig Chaquico (guitars); Rolf Hartley (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Bill Slais (vocals, keyboards); Wade Olson ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wizard, and a true guitar star, Joe Bonamassa was bending an axe's six strings before he could legally drive. Inspired by classic blues aces Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and B.B. King, Bonmassa yearned to tell stories sad but ...

Although his previous studio albums have rightly positioned him as the king of electric blues guitarists, Joe Bonamassa's gut-wrenching expressiveness and technical wizardry are best experienced live. This blistering two-disc concert set captures Bonamassa's brilliance on strutting stompers ("Bridge to ...

UK pressing of this two CD collection from the Blues legend. This collection lives up to its title, containing every known recording by Johnson, including alternate takes. Though the 41 tracks in this double disc set were recorded in a ...

There have been plenty of posthumous Jeff Healey releases, but 2013's House on Fire: Demos and Rarities excavates unheard material from the prime of the Jeff Healey Band: the years of 1992 and 1998, when Healey was signed to a ...

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. ...

Recording information: Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California (05/23/2012-05/23/2012). Editors: Sean Royce Martin; Janice Mancuso. Photographers: Jeff Fasano; Sean Royce Martin. Personnel: Doug MacLeod (vocals, guitar); Jimi Bott (drums). Liner Note Author: Doug MacLeod.