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Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters Rise Up

Richard Ludmerer blues, blues-rock, indie Blues, making a Scene, ronnie earl, roots September 16, 2020

Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters Rise Up Stony Plain Records Ronnie Earl believes in the power of music to heal the mind and spirit, and continues to derive inspiration from personal experiences and observations. This is his twenty-seventh recording. We are the benefactors of his “flow”. Earl is the most soulful blues/jazz guitarist working today. […]

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Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters Maxwell Street

Richard Ludmerer americana, blues, blues radio, blues-rock, Funk, indie, indie Blues, making a Scene, neo blues, new Blues, nu blues, r&B, RNB, Rock, ronnie earl, roots, soul September 6, 2016

Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters Maxwell Street Stony Plain Records Ronnie Earl formed The Broadcasters twenty-five years ago and is a three time Blues Music Award winning guitarist. Earl dedicates this new album “Maxwell Street” to both David Maxwell, his friend and soul brother, and to that famed Chicago location where musicians gathered to play […]

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Diane Blue Blues in My Soul

Richard Ludmerer blues, diane Blue, indie Blues, making a Scene, richard ludmerer, ronnie earl December 28, 2015

Diane Blue Blues in My Soul Regina Royale Records Diane Blue has shared the stage with Luther Guitar Jr. Johnson; Irma Thomas; Big Jack Johnson and others. In 2006 Blue released, “Here I Am”, her independently produced debut recording. In 2010 Blue won the Massachusetts Blues Challenge and went onto compete in the International Blues […]

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Get Ready for “Good News” from Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters

Rhetta Akamatsu blues, blues instrumentals, good news, ronnie earl June 25, 2014

Ronnie Earl has been making great blues instrumentals for over 25 years. For the last 11 of those years, he’s been joined by Dave Limina on keys, drummer Lorne Entress and bassist Jim Mouradian, as The Broadcasters. With this newest release, Good News, Earl and his group deliver just that. Earl had some good news […]

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Ronnie Earl – Good News – Blues N’ Soul – Stony Plain Records

Richard Ludmerer blues, good news, making a Scene, ronnie earl June 9, 2014

Ronnie Earl Good News Blues N’ Soul Stony Plain Records It was sometime around 1987 that I went to The Abilene on 8th Avenue at 13th Street to hear a blues band called “Ronnie Earl and The Broadcasters”. The club was later to become “Chicago B.L.U.E.S.” Ronnie had been the lead guitarist for “Roomful of […]