It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly 30 years since the release of Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan’s influential 1983 debut Texas Flood…June 13 …
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Category Archives: Blues
One Track Mind: Charles Caldwell, “Hadn't I Been Good To You” (2004; 2011 reissue)
| Now, Fat Possum is preparing a vinyl reissue of this underrated side, due on Nov. 22, that hopefully will burnish the reputation of a star-in-the-making that went too soon. Caldwell, playing his first guitar (a hollow-body Gibson 135 given to him at … See all stories on this topic » |
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Rory Gallagher – BBC Sessions (1999; 2011 reissue)
| The newly reissued BBC Sessions, a collection featuring one disc of live performances and then another of radio broadcasts, underscore just why. Whereas his studio albums, in particular late in Gallagher's hard-touring career, could be uneven affairs, … See all stories on this topic » |
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Fricke's Picks: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, the Original Blues Brothers
| Hoodoo Man Blues – released in 1966, now reissued with an extra half-hour of outtakes and studio banter – would be the start of a long creative friendship. Guy and Wells recorded and toured together until the latter's death in 1998, opening shows for … See all stories on this topic » |
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Reissue: Junior Wells, with Buddy Guy – "Hoodoo Man Blues …
by Nick DeRiso For Junior Wells, there was just something about working with Buddy Guy. On Hoodoo Man Blues, a spark-filled mid-1960s Chicago blues …
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Classic 'Hoodoo Man Blues' gets new CD life
It should be fitting today, just a couple days after the death of Honeyboy Edwards, to look back at the golden age of Chicago blues with a new reissue of a classic blues album, and arguably one of the top 10 or 20 blues albums ever — Junior Wells' …
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