Tone-Cool Records. Maxwell's solo debut has been a long time in coming, but it been worth the wait, as he neatly sidesteps the curse of the non-vocalist bandleader. Bringing in Darrell Nulisch for one vocal ("Heart Attack") only distracts from this fine ...

Tone-Cool music. SHAKE HANDS WITH SHORTY was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Luther and Cody Dickinson, guitarist and drummer respectively for the hotter-than-Hades electric blues boogie trio the North Mississippi All Stars, have a tough rock & ...

Tone-Cool CDs. Monster Mike Welch's second CD is now available once again! Original Album Description: "Monster" Mike Welch has erupted on the national music scene! This 17-year old fiery guitarist follows the success of his debut release (These Blues Are Mine, which reached ...

Tone-Cool Records. The team of guitarist Paul Rishell and Annie Raines on harmonica (both sing) is so appealing that their acoustic duets make the occasional guests (and electrification of the music) seem unnecessary although Ronnie Earl gets in a few good guitar ...

Tone-Cool music. As I'm Sitting in the House of Blues on this cold winter Monday with English blues giant Otis Grand, drummer Neil Gouvin and west coast singer Curtis Salgado, Curtis is suggesting thai I should not write generic liner notes. Well, ...

Tone-Cool CDs. On their third official release, vocalist Greg Humphreys and his ultra funky creation, Hobex, enjoyably embrace the timeless appeal of 1970s Philly soul and the Motown legend via a spirited meld of earthy vocals, danceable grooves, tempered horn blasts, jazzy ...

Tone-Cool music. WAIT FOR ME was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. WAIT FOR ME is the follow-up to Susan Tedeschi's hugely successful 1998 release, JUST WON'T BURN. It mixes a few originals with potent takes on songs ...

Tone-Cool Records. Bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart's Motivational Speaker is his first outing since Down in the Alley, his stellar, acoustic collection of covers from 2002. Cut in Memphis with a very electric trio that includes Gary Rasmussen (former Rationals and Sonic's Rendezvous ...

Tone-Cool CDs. "Blue Midnight" was recorded at the W.C. Handy Awards show, Memphis Tennessee, April 1998. Personnel includes: Rod Piazza (vocals, harmonica); Robert Sandell, Gregg Schaeffer (guitar); Glen Ross Campbell (steel guitar); Jim Wynn, Ed Davis (saxophone); Richard Davis (trumpet); JD Nicholson, Honey ...

Tone-Cool music. The first Garage a Trois EP (Mysteryfunk) came out of sessions for Stanton Moore's first album, All Kooked Out! While All Kooked Out! was funky and swinging, the Garage a Trois release was all improvised, moodier, and had a darker, ...

Tone-Cool Records. Los Angeles axeman Rick Holstrom, best known for his work with Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, delivers an album full of diversity on this, his first Tone-Cool release. The 13 songs included on Gonna Get Wild play out like ...

Tone-Cool CDs. Rock, funk, and straight-ahead blues are all covered with ease on Across the Water, guitarist Bernard Allison's first release on the Tone-cool label. Allison is the son of blues guitarist Luther Allison and while the blues was a constant in ...

Paul Rishell and Annie Raines seems to have a bad case of the blues on Goin' Home, which is good news for the listener. While the album kicks off with two originals, most of the material is drawn from classic ...

What better place to record live blues than at the yearly W.C. Handy Awards ceremony, the genre's most prestigious event? These ten highlights of shows recorded from 1996-2001 (with 1997 conspicuously missing), capture the artists at the top of their ...

Vendor Change From Plg Was 471155plg2 The Love Dogs: Ed Duato Scheer (vocals, percussion); Alizon Lissance (vocals, piano); Glenn Shambroom (guitar, soprano, baritone & bass saxophones); Myanna (alto & tenor saxophones); "Sax" Gordon Beadle (tenor saxophone); Jesse Williams (bass, background vocals); ...

Keyboardist Tony Z uses ...