San Francisco blues guitar king Joe Louis Walker has been purveying his biting brand of
West Coast blues since the '60s, with time off for good behavior (literally -- he spent years going straight attending school and playing gospel). On ...
This has 24 sides that King did for Federal in the early 1960s, all but
two of them from 1961 and 1962, and all but one released on singles. Half of this appears on Rhino's King retrospective Hide Away: The ...
Lightnin' Hopkins is the star of this live recording, made at an August 1961 concert
at the Ash Grove in Hollywood featuring Hopkins, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (with Big Joe Williams sitting in on three numbers). It isn't remotely ...
For many years Long John Hunter played in clubs without much attention, but that time
sweating it out in roadhouses has paid off. During that time, he developed a gutsy, forceful technique that was fully evident on his belated 1993 ...
Produced in part by Mike Vernon, who worked on The Legendary Christine Perfect Album, this
is an entertaining and concise package of ten songs performed by the late Freddie King and a slew of guests. Opening with Gonzalez Chandler's Pack ...
Two songs into Every Day I Have the Blues, T-Bone Walker starts singing a slow-crawling
12-bar blues about Vietnam, a pretty good indication that this 1969 LP belongs to its era. That's not the only way this record evokes its ...
Here's the Man! contains recordings Bland cut for the Duke label in the early '60s.
It has the same intensity and variety of his late-'50s breakthrough album, Two Steps From the Blues, and mimics that album's program of big band-blues ...
After some fairly soporific early-'80s releases for MCA, this album re-energized Bland's recording fortunes. The
Larry Addison-penned title track caught on with blues-soul fans, making it to the middle reaches of the R&B charts as a single.