The all star SUPERSONIC BLUES MACHINE’s second album "Californisoul" isn’t so much a concept as a feel and attitude, as revealed by the album title. It’s all there in the sparkling interplay on a subtle melange of rock, blues and soul with the kind of deep grooves you might expect from a band helmed by legendary drummer Kenny Aronoff, soulful singer / guitarist Lance Lopez and bass player / producer Fabrizio Grossi.
"Californisoul" is also a very organic album that leaves enough headroom for the grooves to bubble up, the solos to build and the hooks to sink in. Above all, the core trio successfully integrates 5 special guests into their own musical creation.
Supersonic Blues Machine’s second album is everything modern blues should be, and yet so very much more. It's classic rock at its best, delivers a pocket full of awesome melodies, and some fantastic guitar solos to boot.
“Californisoul” is warm, welcoming and a tremendously fun journey.
01. I Am Done Missing You
02. Somebody's Fool (feat. Robben Ford)
03. L.O.V.E.
04. Broken Heart (feat. Billy F. Gibbons)
05. Bad Boys
06. Elevate (feat. Eric Gales)
07. The One
08. Hard Times (feat. Steve Lukather)
09. Cry
10. The Stranger
11. What's Wrong (feat. Walter Trout)
12. Thank You
13. This Is Love
White Trash Blues 2017
“White Trash Blues” gives a new spin on 12 blues tracks, some of which would be known to everyone with even a passing interest in the genre and some which only the true aficionados would be aware of.
The Quireboys are most definitely in the latter camp. Which is why it makes almost perfect sense to name it after one of their own songs. As far back as 1990 the band were mixing bluesy elements into their sound in a way that the then teenage MTV simply wasn’t aware of before.
All of which reinforces the point here that these are not carbon copies, but nor do they achingly try to be 'modern'. Rather they are loving versions of brilliant songs by a band who has captured completely the fun of what they were trying to do.
“White Trash Blues” then, the rare exception that proves the rule.
Strongly Recommended
01 - Cross Eyed Cat
02 - Boom Boom
03 - I Wish You Would
04 - Take out Some Insurance
05 - Going Down
06 - Help Me
07 - Shame Shame Shame
08 - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
09 - Leaving Trunk
10 - I'm a King Bee
11 - Walking the Dog
12 - Little Queenie
This new album features the cream of the crop, including some of your favorite Provogue guitarists, like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Sonny Landreth, Eric Gales, Joe Louis Walker, Warren Haynes, Robben Ford and Joe Bonamassa.
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01. Gonna Hurt Like Hell (feat. Kenny Wayne Shepherd)
02. Ain't Goin' Back (feat. Sonny Landreth)
03. The Other Side Of The Pillow (feat. Charlie Musselwhite)
04. She Listens To The Blackbird Sing (feat. Mike Zito)
05. Mr. Davis (feat. Robben Ford)
06. The Sky Is Crying (feat. Warren Haynes)
07. Somebody Goin' Down (feat. Eric Gales)
08. She Steals My Heart Away (feat. Edgar Winter)
09. Crash And Burn (feat. Joe Louis Walker)
10. Too Much To Carry (feat. John Nemeth)
11. Do You Still See Me At All (feat. Jon Trout)
12. Got Nothin' Left (feat. Randy Bachman)
13. Blues For Jimmy T (feat. John Mayall)
14. We're All In This Together (feat. Joe Bonamassa)
Taft started a blues/rock band in 2007 under his own name, with Scott Vogel on drums and Evan Sheeley on Bass. Their first CD, entitled "Left For Dead" was released in March 2010, with a mixture of originals and traditional blues covers. The album was given five stars by John Vermilyea of Blues Underground Network. In 2011, Taft signed a two record deal with the German-based label M.i.G. "Left For Dead" was released world-wide on August 26, 2011, with the addition of a bonus track "When The Levee Breaks".
Dudley Taft toured the Netherlands in January 2012. Reviews from bluesmagazine.nl, Keysandchords and more all rated ***** 5 stars for the "Left for Dead" CD. Taft then hired John Kessler to play bass and Chris Leighton to play drums for the next CD and live shows in Seattle and Europe. A DVD was released on March 5, 2012 called "Dudley Taft live at Highway 99," performed August 6, 2011 in Seattle, Washington.
On May 7, 2013, Taft released "Deep Deep Blue," his second blues rock studio album on his own label, American Blues Artist Group, and in Europe on M.i.G. Deep Deep Blue won the Best USA Blues Rock Album on the Underground Blues Network. Taft made three HD videos for Deep Deep Blue, "The Waiting" directed by Alex Hoelscher, starring Alyssa Lynn James; "God Forbid" directed by Matthew Kreig, and "Meet Me In The Morning" by Matt Minnotte and David Molinatto.
"Screaming In The Wind", produced by Tom Hambridge, was released in March 2014. The band toured the US and the EU May through September, playing the Netherlands, Germany and Poland with John Kessler on Bass, Carl Martin on drums and Eric Robert on Keyboards. Taft made three HD videos for Screaming In The Wind, "Screaming in The Wind," "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues," and "Sleeping In The Sunlight" all directed by Alex Hoelscher. The album made the top 10 Blues Rock albums of 2014 on the Blues Underground Network and the song "Red Line" was the #1 single on the Hit Tracks Top 100.
In February 2015, Taft went to Nashville to record keyboard overdubs on the upcoming album "Skin and Bones" with legendary keyboardist Reese Wynans of Stevie Ray Vaughan fame. The band toured Europe again in April and March 2015, and released the fourth studio album "Skin and Bones" on October 16, 2015 on the American Blues Artist Group label. The song "Skin and Bones" charted #1 on the Hit Tracks Top 100 in Europe, and #2 on the Roots Music Report's Blues Rock Radio chart. Four HD video were shot for the album; "Skin and Bones", "Leland Mississippi Blues", "Lonesome Memphis Blues" and "One of These Days" by Alex Hoelscher. The first two videos were released at the end of 2015, and the second two in the first two months of 2016. Taft's music can be heard on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services, as well as Sirus/XM's Bluesville channel 70.
The album, "Live in Europe" was released in May 2016 with 13 tracks that were recorded during the 2014 and 2015 European tours in Vriezenveen, Netherlands and Kielce, Poland. Eight cover songs and five originals populate the cd, with "Broken Down" reaching the #1 spot on the Hit Tracks Top 100 chart in Europe.
Taft's fifth studio album, "Summer Rain" is on September 15, 2017 and has the same lineup as "Skin and Bones" with the addition of Kasey Williams on Bass guitar. The album consists of eleven songs penned solely by Taft.
When Five Horse Johnson formed back in 1995, referring to themselves as a “blues band,” a few brows might well have been furrowed. But this is a band that has always understood that the blues isn’t a formula – it’s a way of looking at the world. Their take on the blooze is as a dirty, sensual thing, enhanced with a healthy dose of humor.
Now some two decades and seven albums into their career – with eighth Jake Leg Boogie, set to drop in Summer 2017 on Small Stone – Five Horse Johnson have dug out a niche of their own, a genuine love and respect for traditional blues and classic rock leading them to likewise become one of the most loved and respected bands in the heavy rock underground. Always a freight train live, they’ve toured the US (with Clutch and Halfway to Gone) and Europe extensively (including the festival circuit), gathering fans, friends, and drinking partners all over the Western World.
01. Jake Leg Boogie (02:39)
02. Magic Man (04:16)
03. Cryin’ Shame (04:32)
04. Ropes and Chains (03:39)
05. Hard Times (04:08)
06. Smoke Show (04:17)
07. Little Lonely (04:52)
08. Overload (03:57)
09. Daddy Was a Gun (04:36)
10. Last Song (02:35)
A COLLECTION OF EXCELLENT UNRELEASED MUSIC RECORDED THROUGH THE YEARS BY THIS OUTSTANDING, BLUES-BASED, HEAVY GUITAR ROCKER FROM CALIFORNIA. INCLUDES 15 TRACKS OF WAY-KOOL, KILLER, SOUL-POWERED, AUTHENTIC, REAL, "OLD-SCHOOL" SIX STRING MOJO THAT LANDS PURE & DEEP TO THE MUSICAL CORE. THE STRENGTH OF THE MATERIAL + MUSICIANSHIP RIDES HIGH AND SHINES BRIGHTLY. RAISE THE FIST OF THE TRUE GUITAR ROCK CHILD & CELEBRATE THE AWESOME MUSIC OF DIRTY DAVE OSTI @ THE ESSENTIAL, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED "RARE TRACKS" DISC
AWESOME DEBUT STUDIO DISC BY THIS EXCELLENT HARD ROCK BAND FROM NEW YORK FEATURING 12 TRACKS OF TOP-SHELF, WORLD-CLASS, DYNAMIC, BLUES-BASED, RETRO-70S, MELODIC CLASSIC ROCK MUSIC THAT HITS HARD & STANDS TALL IN MUSICAL CLASS ALL ITS OWN. THE "BRAIN-CHILD" OF TOM JUDE (DORO PESCH/HOLY WATER) ON GUITAR & FREDDY VILLANO (QUIET RIOT/WIDOWMAKER/HOLY WATER) ON BASS, AMERICAN MAFIA ALSO INCLUDES BOBBY MARKS (DOKKEN) ON DRUMS AND FEATURES A WAY-KOOL, IMPRESSIVE CAST OF OUTSTANDING ROCK VOCALISTS LENDING THEIR SUPERB VOCAL TALENTS IN THE FORM OF JOHN WEST (BADLANDS/ARTENSION/ROYAL HUNT), JIMMY KUNES (CACTUS/FLOOD THE ENGINE), DON CHAFFIN (VOX/RED LAMB), MIKE DIMEO (RIOT/MASTERPLAN/THE LIZARDS), ED TERRY (RONDINELLI/RAGE & BEYOND) & DAVID KNIGHT. AMERICAN MAFIA HAVE LANDED ROCK SOLID ON THIS OUTSTANDING DISC AND MAKE YOU A NICE ROUND "DEAL" THAT YOU CAN'T REFUSE ON THE APTLY TITLED "ROCK N' ROLL HIT MACHINE" DISC. A KILLER DISPLAY OF MEMORABLE, RADIO-FRIENDLY, CLASSIC, SUPREME, HARD ROCK EXCELLENCE THAT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO FANS OF BAD COMPANY, FOREIGNER & WHITESNAKE.
01. Obsession 03:53
02. Every Time 03:38
03. Your Good Lovin' 04:36
04. Death & Satisfaction 04:04
05. Friendly Fire 06:11
06. If I Knew 05:55
07. Man On The Flying Trapeze 03:29
08. Living For The City 03:52
09. The Sky Is Falling 03:58
10. Let Me Go 04:39
11. All I Need 04:01
12. Resurrection 00:50
Line-Up:
Tom Jude - Guitars (Doro Pesch, Holy Water)
Freddy Villano - Bass (Quiet Riot, Widowmaker)
Bobby Marks - Drums (Dokken)
Guests Vocals:
David Knight
John West (Badlands, Artension, Royal Hunt)
Jimmy Kunes (Cactus, Flood The Engine)
Don Chaffin (VOX, Red Lamb)
Mike DiMeo (Riot, Masterplan, The Lizards)
Ed Terry (Rondinelli, Rage & Beyond)
Black Oak County are a band out of Esbjerg, Denmark. They are a quartet of young guys who have been playing previously under the name Great White Buffalo, but chose the name change after some “legal issues.” Listing influences such as Slash and Zakk Wylde, they go after a modern rock sound in the vein of (hard rock) Nickelback, the UK’s Stone Broken, or fellow countrymen Volbeat. In my opinion, they do it better and with more enthusiasm and creativity than any of those aforementioned bands. Recorded at Hansen Studios, which is owned by renowned producer Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Amaranthe, Pretty Maids), the band teamed up with producer and engineer, Jonas Haagensen, in order to capture their tour-tested songs and the energy of their energetic live performance onto an album.
01. Someone Else
02. Enough On My Plate
03. The Bogeyman
04. Mad Dog
05. Save Me
06. Rated R For Redneck
07. Laughing With The Crows
08. If You Only Knew
09. Nothing To Say
10. Never Cared
Born in rural Indiana, Jay Jesse Johnson started playing guitar at the age of 10 and grew up listening to the sounds of blues, country and rock & roll. As a teenager, Johnson began paving his own way into the music world and was soon performing at local dances, events and nightclubs around the Midwest.
When he was 18, Johnson moved to the East coast and started gigging in the New York City / New England bar scene with regional bands, Sass and Cryer. While doing some studio recording, he landed the gig as the guitarist for ArcAngel (CBS/Portrait Records) and appeared on MTV in 1983 with the band’s hit single, “Tragedy”.
Johnson went on to be the guitarist and songwriter for the band Deadringer (Grudge/BMG records), which included Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees, Neal Smith and Dennis Dunaway from Alice Cooper as well as Joe Bouchard from Blue Oyster Cult and vocalist, Charlie Huhn (Gary Moore, Foghat).
Along with the many recordings that Jay Jesse Johnson has appeared on, his 1st solo album “Strange Imagination”, released in 2004, set the stage for his back to the roots, blues/rock ascent. It was followed by “I’ve Got An Axe To Grind” released in 2007 that featured Charlie Huhn (Foghat/Victory), BJ Zampa (Dokken, House of Lords) and Matt Zeiner (Dickey Betts). In 2009, his third solo album, “Play That Damn Guitar” was released on Grooveyard Records. It was featured in Classic Rock Magazine’s CD “Blues Breakers” (The Hottest In New Blues Rock”). Johnson was signed to Mike Varney’s Shrapnel Records/Blues Bureau International in 2012, with the release of “Run With The Wolf” and in 2013, Johnson was featured on The Blues Magazine’s “Cream Of Contemporary Blues” cover CD.
In Sept. 2015, Johnson was featured with Robert Cray, Canned Heat and Joe Bonamassa in The Blues Magazine’s cover CD, “The Next Generation Of Blues Superstars,” It included “Ghosts In Texas”, from his 5th solo album, “Set The Blues On Fire”. Johnson was also featured on “Shrapnel Records Presents the Best Of Modern Blues” with Leslie West, Pat Travers, Paul Gilbert and others.
Jay Jesse Johnson has shared the stage with guitar greats, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Walter Trout, Rick Derringer, Pat Travers as well as super groups, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Foghat and Jefferson Starship to name a few. He currently tours with his band, “The Jay Jesse Johnson Band”, A musical powerhouse that features Reed Bogart-Bass, Jeff “Smokey” Donaldson-Drums and Lee Evans on Hammond B3.
"Bad Movie" es el nuevo álbum de BOBBY MESSANO. Messano es uno de los más grandes - y más solicitados - guitarristas de sesión en la escena musical de los Estados Unidos. Ha grabado con todos, desde Gloria Gaynor hasta Joe Lynn Turner, ha sido director musical de Steve Winwood y Lou Gramm en solitario y, por supuesto, Messano fue el hombre que elaboró el sonido melódico de Fiona en todos sus álbumes de los años 80.
A lo largo de los años, Messano se ha convertido en un exitoso artista en solitario, y por su propio trabajo, decidió tocar y cantar la música con la que creció: blues.
"Bad Movie" es más rock que blues, o lo llaman 'rockin' blues ', pero una cosa es segura; ¿Echas de menos a Gary Moore? ... escucha a Bobby Messano.
01 - Bad Movie
02 - Come To Your Senses
03 - Why Water A Dead Rose
04 - Road To Oblivion
05 - Unconventional Wisdom
06 - Too Good To Be True
07 - If The Phone Ain't Ringin' It's Me Not Callin'
08 - Never Too Late To Break A Bad Habit
09 - Water Under The Bridge
10 - You Left Me No Choice
11 - The Girl That Got Away
12 - I Thought We Had This
13 - We Need A Blessing
14 - Is It Too Much To Hope For A Miracle
15 - American Spring
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