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Johnny Rawls I Miss Otis Clay |
Johnny Rawls I Miss Otis Clay Third Street Cigar Records Mississippi born Johnny Rawls is a perennial Blues Music Award nominee in the categories of Soul Blues Male Artist and… |
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Bonsai Universe Too Many Ghosts |
Bonsai Universe Too Many Ghosts Self-released Too Many Ghosts, the latest title from renowned guitarist Woody Aplanlap, is the second project from what he’s dubbed Bonsai Universe. It’s a beautiful… |
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The Bad Plus Activate Infinity |
The Bad Plus Activate Infinity Edition Activate Infinity is the second album from The Bad Plus since Orrin Evans replaced co-founder Ethan Iverson in the piano chair. This widely popular… |
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Breezy Rodio If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It |
Breezy Rodio If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It Delmark Breezy Rodio cut his teeth with Linsey Alexander and continues to prove on If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It, his… |
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Claudia Nygaard Lucky Girl |
Claudia Nygaard Lucky Girl Bet the Ranch Music Claudia Nygaard aims right for the bone in her 2019 self-released album, Lucky Girl. Claudia wrote all thirteen songs and the title… |
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Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps Live! |
Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps Live! Jesi-lu Records Teresa James is originally from the Houston, Texas area but has for a long time called Los Angeles home. Her earliest… |
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Matt Ulery Delicate Charms |
Matt Ulery Delicate Charms Woolgathering Matt Ulery, Chicago-based bassist-composer, casts a mysterious, dense, often warm spell with his quintet called by the same name as the album, Delicate Charms. The… |
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Biscuit Miller & The Mix Chicken Grease |
Biscuit Miller & The Mix Chicken Grease American Showplace Music David Miller was raised on Chicago’s Southside. He was nicknamed “Biscuit” by his grandma as he wouldn’t get out of… |
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John Allee Bardfly |
John Allee Bardfly Portuguese Knees Music There have been a couple of other Shakespeare related efforts to cross this writer, a former English major no less, desk’s recently, and for… |
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Myles Goodwyn Friends Of The Blues 2 |
Myles Goodwyn Friends Of The Blues 2 Linus Entertainment Myles Goodwyn’s interest in the blues began in the 1960’s when he first heard B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, and Muddy Waters.… |
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Ghost Town Blues Band Shine |
Ghost Town Blues Band Shine Independent The Ghost Town Blues Band can be compared to Little Feat. While Feat was a hybrid born in a classic rock era with a… |
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Fima Chupakhin Water |
Fima Chupakhin Water Self-released The Ukraine is in the news often lately as it becomes a central focus in the impeachment proceedings but musically we can all be on the… |
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Chris Madsen Bonfire |
Chris Madsen Bonfire Outside in Music Saxophonist and band leader Chris Madsen leads his Chicago-based quartet on Bonfire, and album of eight originals, stretching nearly an hour. These compositions have… |
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The Mavericks Play The Hits |
The Mavericks Play The Hits Mono Mondo Recordings/Thirty Tigers The Mavericks were founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida. Their sound combines modern country music, Latino and rock n’ roll influences.… |
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The B Christopher Band Two Rivers Back |
The B Christopher Band Two Rivers Back by Rhetta Akamatsu B. Christopher is a guitarist, singer and very busy composer whose work has been used over 20,000 times on Television.… |
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Johnny Burgin Live |
Johnny Burgin Live Delmark Records Johnny Burgin attended The University of Chicago to study writing but soon fell into the Chicago Blues Scene. The guitarists first professional gig was backing… |
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Al Basile B’s Hot House |
Al Basile B’s Hot House Sweetspot Records This is Al Basile’s sixteenth studio recording. The singer/songwriter and cornetist continues to create his own sound. In 2017 his recording “Mid-Century Modern”,… |
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Guillaume Muller Sketches of Sound |
Guillaume Muller Sketches of Sound Self-released Even before listening, one should give a wink to Guillaume Muller for the word play of the album title, playing off one of Miles… |
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