2023

James Etta: Etta James (Clear) [Vinyl LP]

Buchanan Roy: Roy Buchanan & The Snakestretchers [Vinyl LP]

Bonamassa Joe: Blues deluxe 2 2023 [Digipack / CD]

Bonamassa Joe: Tales of time [Gatefold / 3 Vinyl LP]

The newest album from Rhiannon Giddens', You're the One is her third solo studio album and her first of all original songs. This collection of 12 songs written over the course of Giddens' career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants. Produced by Jack Splash (Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June), You're the One features some of Giddens' closest musical collaborators from the past decade, including multi-instrumentalists Francesco Turrisi and Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu. The album features electric and upright bass, conga, Cajun and Piano accordions, guitars, a Western string section, and Miami horns, among other instruments, capturing the inclusive spirit that channels through all of her work. <br/><br/>"I hope that people just hear American music," Giddens says. "Blues, jazz, Cajun, country, gospel, and rock-it's all there. I like to be where it meets organically. They're fun songs, and I wanted them to have as much of a chance as they could to reach people who might dig them but don't know anything about what I do. If they're introduced to me through this record, they might go listen to other music I've made with a different set of ears."

En av världens mest kända och hårt arbetande artister, Van Morrison, verkar nu ha ett överflöd av kreativ energi och detta har resulterat i att han släpper sitt 44:e album, som fått titeln "Moving On Skiffle". Pandemin verkar bara ha gjort Van Morrison mer produktiv; 2021 släppte han ett dubbelalbum, följt av ytterligare ett album 2022 och nu denna hyllning till skifflen, musiken som han växte upp med.<br/><br/>På detta dubbelalbum tolkar Van Morrison några av de mest kända skiffle-låtarna från 50-talet (och tidigare). Vissa har fått lite andra arrangemang, medan andra åter har fått lite ändrade texter. Den klassiska medborgarrätts-kampsången "This Little Light Of Mine" har döpts om till <br/>"This Loving Light Of Mine" till exempel

Shepherd Kenny Wayne: Dirt on my diamond vol 1 [Digipack / CD]