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."

Recorded in June of 2023 in front of a rabid crowd at The Garage in London, Live In London is a white hot testament to the exhilarating live Kingfish experience. Christone is in masterful control of the proceedings, whether blasting out molten, rock-infused riffs or picking the sweetest single notes this side of heaven. At 16 songs and 109 minutes long, it's a motherlode of blues magic, and the set list is a fan's dream show, including "Outside Of This Town," "662," "Another Life Goes By" and a new, previously unrecorded song, "Midnight Heat."<br/><br/>Blues guitar sensation releases his first live album, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to his Grammy Award-winning 2021 release, 662. Since Kingfish burst on the scene in 2019, fans have been clamoring for an album that showcases the dizzying heights Kingfish reaches when he gets a chance to stretch out on stage. Live In London is that album.<br/>First two studio releases, 2019's Grammy-nominated Kingfish and 2021's Grammy winner 662, have sold over 100,000 units worldwide.<br/>Promotion to over 1700 print, radio and social media contacts around the world. In the U.S., Kingfish has done a performance and interview on CBS Saturday Morning and been the subject of a 5000-word feature in Washington Post Magazine. Additional features have come from NPR's Morning Edition, PBS-TV's "American Creators" and "Mississippi Roads," World Café and SiriusXM's "Bluesville" channel. He's been praised in the pages of the New York Times, DownBeat, Relix and Goldmine, and had features or reviews from Living Blues, Blues Music Magazine and all major guitar publications. Outside the U.S., Kingfish has received press raves from all major blues and roots music publications in Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia.<br/>Live In London will be promoted to radio for blues shows worldwide, as well as AAA, Americana and internet music programmers. Over 285 international radio contacts will be serviced, including hundreds of stations in the U.S., as well as national outlets like NPR Radio, BBC in UK, CBC in Canada, Radio France Musique, Deutschlandfunk, NDR and MDR in Germany, ABC and Double J in Australia, RAI in Italy, RVT1 in The Netherlands and more.<br/>Since the release of his debut, Ingram has spent much of his time on the road, thrilling audiences around the world, including two visits to Europe and Australia, and opening slots for the Rolling Stones, Vampire Weekend and Buddy Guy. He spent a good part of the spring and summer this year warming up festival and shed dates in the U.S. and Canada on Buddy Guy's farewell tour, as well as making his debut at Bonnaroo and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Shows in support of Live In London begin on street date at Telluride Blues Festival in Colorado, and continue through the end of the year, including high-profile appearances at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Los Angeles and Austin City Limits Music Festival.

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