americana

Dori Freeman Do You Recall

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter November 17, 2023

Dori Freeman Do You Recall Blue Hens Music Do You Recall is the fifth album from evolving singer-songwriter Dori Freeman. Here first three were recorded in NYC and produced by Teddy Thompson but Freeman began to blend electric with acoustic sonics on her 2021 Ten Thousand Roses and continues in that direction with this electrified […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Americana/ CD Reviews Indie Country

Ned Hill Band Thousand Watt Town

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter November 16, 2023

Ned Hill Band Thousand Watt Town Self-released Troubadour Ned Hill delivers a country-tinged rock n’ roll record with a touch of his native Kentucky twang. Even the opening chords of “Gotta Get Out of This Town” will evoke Steve Earle’s Guitar Town or Copperhead Road. On Hill’s Thousand Watt Town the singer-songwriter collaborates with the […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Americana

Michelle Malone & The Hot Toddies Toddie Time

Tom Clarke americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter November 14, 2023

Michelle Malone & The Hot Toddies Toddie Time SBS Records/BFD Snowflakes float on a chilly upstate New York Halloween morning, and this cheery and bluesy Christmas album creates a perfect soundtrack. Atlanta’s Michelle Malone & the Hot Toddies’ Toddie Time features inspired twists on the tried and true. Malone croons “Jingle Bells” clearly and with […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus/ Podcasts

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Ray Cashman

Richard L'Hommedieu .blues, americana, blues-rock, indie, indie Blues, Live from the Midnight Circus., making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 14, 2023

Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Ray Cashman This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living […]

Podcasts/ Turn it Up

Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #220

Gerry Casey americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 13, 2023

Making a Scene Brings you Turn it Up with Gerry Casey Show #220 with his Guest Anthony Gomes Atomic Freak When It All Goes Down Derrick Dove & The Peacekeepers Blindsided Greer Sullivan Lay Me Down Taylor McCall Mellow War Kardang Scandinavian Girls The Great Affairs Sleepwalker La Chapelle Alive Is Where We’ve Been The […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Gerry Casey Interviews Anthony Gomes part 1

Gerry Casey americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 12, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Anthony Gomes Part 1 With a guitar slung over his shoulder and the amps turned up full tilt, Anthony Gomes electrifies blues and rock at a 21st century crossroads of his own. The Canadian vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and producer wails with all the force […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Ray Cashman is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 10, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ray Cashman Some folks play the blues while some write about it and present it as their own because it is. Ray Cashman is the latter. This guy is the real deal. His songs are on the radio around the world and his European show date […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Marcel Smith From My Soul

Jim Hynes americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 9, 2023

Marcel Smith From My Soul Little Village Singer-songwriter Marcel Smith’s From My Soul follows up his Little Village release Everybody Needs Love, covered in 2020 by Richard Ludmerer on these pages. His review has considerable biographical information, so we’ll forge ahead with the essence of what’s at hand this time out. First, Smith co-wrote five […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Wayne Nicholson Gin House

Jim Hynes americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 9, 2023

Wayne Nicholson Gin House Grindstone Singer-songwriter, producer and frontman Wayne Nicholson is the blues voice of Canada’s East Coast. He has fronted Horse and the Oakley Band and is out with his seventh solo effort, Gin House, recorded on his home turf in Nova Scotia. This writer covered his 2020 effort with John Campbelljohn on […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus/ Podcasts

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Sue Foley

Richard L'Hommedieu .blues, americana, blues-rock, indie, indie Blues, Live from the Midnight Circus., making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 7, 2023

Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Sue Foley This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Sue Foley is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 6, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sue Foley Sue Foley delivers her own brand of Texas blues in this stunning set, recorded live at the iconic Continental Club in Austin, Texas. Foley’s seasoned rhythm section responds to her every move as she sways, rocks, and digs in deep with equal parts ease […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Americana

Noah Zacharin Points of Light

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter November 5, 2023

Noah Zacharin Points of Light Self-released Noah Zacharin is a Canadian singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist who delivers his ninth album with Points of Light. Although this is mostly a quiet, acoustic based folk album, there are elements of blues and rock as this adept guitarist exhibits few boundaries. At times he is completely mesmerizing in […]

337741929_686679723462537_4602343520582898430_n

Americana Artist/ Artist Interviews

Charlotte Morris is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter November 5, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Charlotte Morris Charlotte discovered her passion for music at a young age. After starting violin lessons at the age of four, Morris taught herself how to play the guitar, piano (and melodica), ukulele, banjo, acoustic bass guitar and mandolin, and began taking her songwriting seriously by […]

284068059_159822829876684_1876498646486704925_n

Americana Artist/ Artist Interviews

The Common Practice is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter November 4, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with “The Common Practice” The Common Practice have a brand new album titled: “Theater Kids” … from pop/funk dance beats, to tender ballads, to classic rock, to alt-country, all while maintaining a signature sound glued together by the orchestral strings and four part harmonies! I mean What? […]

Americana Artist/ Artist Interviews

Scarlett Woods is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter November 3, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Skarlett Woods Entwining Swing and Jazz into folk-themed stories of love, she has a stage presence that demands the attention of a oom. Taking her listeners on up-beat rhythmic rides over heart- swelling arrangements of originals and covers, Skarlett has simply become more comfortable showing herself […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Kerri Powers Love Is Why

Jim Hynes americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock November 2, 2023

Kerri Powers Love Is Why Wildflower Child New England singer-songwriter Kerri Powers returns with her first album since 2018 with Love Is Why, songs written during the pandemic and steeped in loss and grieving when Powers was processing the loss of her father, with whom she was very close. So, the writing process was cathartic […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Americana/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Randy Lee Riviere Blues Sky

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter November 2, 2023

Randy Lee Riviere Blues Sky New Wilderness Blues Sky represents a shift for singer-songwriter Randy Lee Riviere, teaming again with the acclaimed producer Kevin McKendree who produced, engineered, and mixed the album. The last time we visited Riviere he and McKendree delivered a western tinged Americana effort, 2021’s Wyoming. Before that, under the moniker Mad […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Emma Wilson Memphis Calling

Richard Ludmerer americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 31, 2023

Emma Wilson Memphis Calling Emma Wilson was the “Emerging Blues Artist of The Year” at the UK Blues Awards in 2022. As a result Wilson returned to Memphis to record this new album. Emmy Award winning Producer Scott Bomar brought in legendary Memphian musicians including organist Charles Hodges, bassist Leroy Hodges, and Booker T. and […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus/ Podcasts

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Tom Buenger

Richard L'Hommedieu .blues, americana, blues-rock, indie, indie Blues, Live from the Midnight Circus., making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 31, 2023

Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Tom Buenger This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living […]

Artist Interviews/ Indie Country Artist

Alex Miller is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 30, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Alex Miller Rising Country star Alex Miller isn’t pondering life after college graduation or a future foray into the work force. Instead, the 6’ 6” singer/songwriter from rural Lancaster, Kentucky is referring to this year as “Alex 2.0” and awaiting the upcoming release of his EP, […]

Podcasts/ Turn it Up

Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #218

Gerry Casey americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 30, 2023

Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Eddie Angle The Rolling Stones Live By The Sword Robert Jon & The Wreck Hold On Gypsy Pistoleros Like Tears In The Rain DYMYTRY Enemy List The Hard Ons In Falls Everything Annie & The Bang Bang Let Me Down Anna Scott […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Gerry Casey interviews Eddie Angel

Gerry Casey .blues, americana, blues-rock, indie Blues, Rock, roots, roots rock October 29, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents Gerry Casey’s interview with Eddie Angel Eddie Angel – captivating British guitar player, vocalist and songwriter. Charismatic personality, great showman and artist. Living in London. Having started his art expression with painting he moved on to guitar soon to be seen astounding people with his […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Tom Buenger is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 28, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tom Buenger After more than a decade in the US military and another near decade in corporate America, Tom Buenger emerged bringing with him a renewed focus on vocal performance, musicianship, and simplicity back to blues, gospel, roots, and American music. From dark Texas bars, Southern […]

Americana Artist/ Artist Interviews

Jim Patton and Sherry Brokus are Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 27, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jim Patton and Sherry Brokus Over the first two years of the pandemic, Patton joined his longtime producer Ron Flynt in Jumping Dog Studio to record twenty songs they later narrowed to the eleven (plus a coda) on the album. Patton’s new songs, while not directly […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Americana

Anton O’Donnell Tomber Sur PRW

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 27, 2023

Anton O’Donnell Tomber Sur PRW Need to Know Trust that this, though the artist may be and certainly the title is unfamiliar, is a terrific singer-songwriter album. Now for the explanations: 1) Anton O’Donnell is a Scottish musician who somehow connected with longtime producer Brian Brinkerhoff who helmed this album with 18 musicians participating spread […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Country Rock/ CD Reviews Indie Rock

Chest Fever Music from Big Pink

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 25, 2023

Chest Fever Music from Big Pink Blind Owl Let’s get the prerequisite qualifier down first; this writer has made an exception and is covering a cover band. It’s only happened three times before, and for the same reason – love and respect for the music of The Band. Two of these were with Jim Weider-led […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Sue Foley LIVE in Austin

Richard Ludmerer americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 24, 2023

Sue Foley LIVE in Austin Vizztone Lable Group Sue Foley has become a perennial Blues Music Award winner having won The Blues Music Female Artist of The Year award, also known as the Koko Taylor Award in 2020, 2022, and 2023. This live recording is a career retrospective. Although her most recent albums are “The […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus/ Podcasts

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Chris Beard

Richard L'Hommedieu .blues, americana, blues-rock, indie, indie Blues, Live from the Midnight Circus., making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 24, 2023

Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Chris Beard This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Chris Beard is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 23, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Chris Beard Chris Beard is a modern blues guitarist and singer like no other. His personal connections to the blues were forged with the living blues men he sat with since childhood. Born in 1957, Beard is the son of blues guitarist, Joe Beard, who grew […]

Podcasts/ Turn it Up

Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #217

Gerry Casey americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 23, 2023

Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #217 with his Guest Tyron Benoit Blackberry Smoke Little Bit Crazy Leo Lyons Hundred Seventy Split Walking In The Devil’s Shoes Ralph Selbach Paradise On Earth Diamond Dogs Desiree Traveling Blues Kings It’s Better Death x Destiny Defiance Robin Trower Sari Schorr I’ll Be Moving On Jackson Browne […]

601f61_f3a6c04119534f0297becf1eaca9c110~mv2 copy

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Gerry Casey Interviews Tyron Benoit

Gerry Casey americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 22, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Tyron Benoit Tyron hails from Houma, Louisiana, where music and culture are plentiful. “Growing up around the house, I remember hearing a lot of classic country: George Jones, Hank Williams (Sr. and Jr.), Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, and Ernest Tubb. Going to my grandpa’s […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Americana

Robert Rex Waller Jr. See the Big Man Cry

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 22, 2023

Robert Rex Waller Jr. See the Big Man Cry Have Harmony, Will Travel See the Big Man Cry is the second album from I See Hawks in L.A. frontman Robert Rex Waller Jr., who collaborated with Carla Olson to record this wide-ranging effort. The two have long sung together in shows around L.A. and each […]

meta_eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ== (1) copy

Americana Artist/ Artist Interviews

Miles and Mafale are Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 21, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Miles and Mafale Catherine Miles & Jay Mafale are married co-conspirators in song. They are two scoops of modern folk with a generous sprinkling of pop-catchiness, topped off with the wit and flair that comes of their theater backgrounds. Catherine’s voice – resonant, expressive, a powerhouse. She’s got […]

Americana Artist/ Artist Interviews

Martin Zellar is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 20, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Martin Zellar If you ask singer-songwriter Martin Zellar what he’s most proud of over his long career, he answers, “I guess that I’ve managed to support my family by writing, recording, and performing music for over 35 years. It hasn’t always been easy or glamorous, but […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Nathan Graham Saint of Second Chances

Jim Hynes americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 19, 2023

Nathan Graham Steps Saint of Second Chances Pravda Welcome singer-songwriter, Chicago’s Nathan Graham to the fold. His circuitous route has taken him from a youth absorbed in such commercial acts as Prince and Earth, Wind, and Fire to many a night supporting various blues acts at Buddy Guy’s Legends or Kingston Mines in his hometown. […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Larkin Poe An Acoustic Companion

Tom Clarke americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 18, 2023

Larkin Poe An Acoustic Companion Tricki-Woo Records When sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell lead the roots and blues rockers Larkin Poe, they inject their Southern Gothic-bred songs with high octane-addictive, modern pop gas. But around the time of the pandemic, the sisters flooded social media with videos of themselves as an acoustic duo in […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus/ Podcasts

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Chris Yakopcic

Richard L'Hommedieu .blues, americana, blues-rock, indie, indie Blues, Live from the Midnight Circus., making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 17, 2023

Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Chris Yakopcic This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living […]

Podcasts/ Turn it Up

Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #216

Gerry Casey americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 16, 2023

Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #216 with his Guest Jackie Chambers of Girlschool Johnny Gallagher The Jesus Song The Kings Cool The King Of The Guitar Tyron Benoit Waitin’ On Friday Paul Brady / The Forest Rangers Gimme Shelter Silveroller Hold Riley’s L.A.Guns Dark Horse Danny Bryant Hard Way To Go Lansdowne Safe […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Gerry Casey Interviews Jackie Chambers of Girlschool

Gerry Casey americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 15, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Jackie Chambers of Girlschool Girlschool is a British rock band formed in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene in the 1970s and is frequently associated with contemporaries Motörhead. They are the longest-running all-female rock band, still active after almost 40 years. Originally […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Chris Yakopcic is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 14, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Chris Yakopcic Chris Yakopcic is a fingerstyle acoustic blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter inspired by pre-war delta and Piedmont players. His guitar playing builds on the rhythmic and often high energy thumb-bass picking patterns innovated by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Blind Blake to name a […]

Americana Artist/ Artist Interviews

Jarad Dustin Griffin is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 13, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you a review from Jared Dustin Griffin Jared Dustin Griffin is a singer-songwriter with influences coming from Americana, Blues, and Country music. Raised in the west he took to the road at an early age, traveling across the country and abroad to carve his voice out of the roots […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Americana

Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon Together

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 12, 2023

Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon Together Appalseed This collaboration between two giants of folk music, Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon, seems predestined but still may not have happened if it weren’t for the intervention of the pandemic. Though a series of conversation via ZOOM, the reminiscing and sports talk soon turned to songwriting, resulting in […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus/ Podcasts

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Caroline Cotto

Richard L'Hommedieu .blues, americana, blues-rock, indie, indie Blues, Live from the Midnight Circus., making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 10, 2023

Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Caroline Cotto This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living […]

311480177_572456894880062_5779459150568454560_n

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Caroline Cotto is Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 9, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Caroline Cotto Imagine leaving your country in search of beauty, love and truth. That’s exactly what Caroline Cotto was brave enough to do after her 22nd birthday. She toiled away in the NYC music scene for years before she left to live in Paris and explore […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews Americana

Steve Gellman All You Need

Jim Hynes americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 8, 2023

Steve Gellman All You Need Self-released Multiple award-winning Maryland singer-songwriter Steve Gellman has released his thirteenth album, All You Need. The album carries the ambience of an authentic folk singer backed by an impressive casts including members of The Seldom Scene, guitarist Nina Gerber, Chao Tian (a special star on this album), Grammy winners Cathy […]

Artist Interviews/ INDIE Blues Artist

Gerry Casey Interviews Slyboots

Gerry Casey americana, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 8, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Slyboots Slyboots’ unique yet cohesive sound can be attributed to their different tastes, but similar inspirations. Despite their wide-ranging influences: The Beatles, The Kinks, The Smiths, The Cure – their shared admiration for strong females that have paved the way, e.g., Talking Heads’ Tina […]

Artist Interviews/ Indie Rock Artist

The Customers are Making a Scene

Richard L'Hommedieu americana, indie, Indie Rock, making a Scene, roots, roots rock, singer-songwriter, songwriter October 7, 2023

HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The Customers The Customers are a rock band formed in Los Angeles, CA in 1995 by Ryan Sexton. A demo of Sexton’s songs found its way onto the desk of Neil Young’s manager, Elliot Roberts, who was then in the process of launching Young’s fledgling label, […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Joe Bonamassa Blues Deluxe Vol. 2

Tom Clarke americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 7, 2023

Joe Bonamassa Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 J&R Adventures Joe Bonamassa cannot possibly have an off switch, only one that adjusts the mode. If he’s not out promoting an album onstage somewhere in the world, he’s likely in a studio working on the next one. Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 marks his 51st in 23 years, considering […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Dave Keller It’s Time To Shine

Richard Ludmerer americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 7, 2023

Dave Keller It’s Time To Shine Montpelier, Vermont’s Dave Keller has been schooled by the very best. He studied acoustic blues with guitarist Paul Rishell, and soul blues with guitarist Robert Ward. After releasing the Dave Keller Band debut in 1998 he began to be mentored by Mighty Sam McClain who lived in nearby New […]

CD Reviews/ CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Ray Bonneville On the Blind Side

Jim Hynes americana, blues, blues rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, Rock, roots, roots rock October 7, 2023

Ray Bonneville On the Blind Side Stonefly Juno Award winner and multiple Juno nominee, the Quebec-born, well-traveled and currently Austin-based blues and roots artist Ray Bonneville returns with his tenth solo album, On the Blind Side. This is Bonneville’s post-pandemic release, and understandably may be even more introspective than some previous efforts, leaning a bit […]

«‹ 9 10 11 12 ›»

Help Support Making A Scene

americana

Make a one-time donation

Make a monthly donation

Make a yearly donation