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Ladysmith Black Mambazo — Beyond Graceland (DVD)
Hear them once—and Ladysmith Black Mambazo will stick with you forever. The a cappella Zulu godsend is assuredly that indelible.
North Jersey Blues Society – Annual Holiday Fundraiser Party Highlights
The North Jersey Blues Society lit up Dream Upscale Lounge with a night packed full of music, community, and celebration at our annual Holiday Fundraiser Party at Dream Upscale Lounge on Saturday, December 6. . Event Highlights: Charlie Apicella set the tone with a warm, rootsy opener of classic Delta blues. Lonnie Shields took the stage and got the house hopping , backed by Jessie Loewy. Lonnie was absolutely mesmerizing—working the room, walking the crowd, and electrifying
James "JB" Barnes — My Mississippi Roots
With My Mississippi Roots, James “JB” Barnes delivers a record that feels less like a collection of songs and more like a living testament to heritage, hard truth, and the staying power of the blues.
Humble Pie — Sunset Blvd 1969
Humble Pie never needed training wheels to get rolling. The supergroup, with the play-it-down name, hit the ground rocketing, right from the jump in January of 1969.
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Ten Years After — Ssssh [2025 Deluxe Edition]
Something clicked in 1969. Signature albums from signature bands kept tumbling into record shops. It was a time of great awakening—and even greater listening.
Hot Tuna and Friends Concert Review, Oct.29, 2025, The Bardavon
Hot Tuna and Friends Concert Review of 10/29/2025 Show at The Bardavon
Neal Pattman & The King Bees — Prisoner Blues
Neal Pattman (1926-2005) was an undervalued, one-armed harmonicat. His rustic sound pledged allegiance to the unamplified, country-blues style rampant around the rolling hills of the Southeast’s Piedmont region. Stylistically, think: Sonny Terry, a fellow Georgian whose harp was also an extension of his lungs.
Buddy Guy — Ain’t Done With the Blues
Buddy Guy’s latest fireball goes by the name of Ain’t Done With the Blues. The truth in its title becomes blatantly obvious within seconds and keeps on resounding throughout the remaining 65 minutes. But that should be of no surprise, coming from the reigning master of electrified blues. Even at 89, the Louisiana-born Chicagoan shows zero sign of letting up, still rattling walls and shaking the earth with his telltale brand of intensity.
Various — The Last Real Texas Blues Album
If you build it, they will come. And that they have—in droves. The Last Real Texas Blues Album is a testament to the magnetic pull of Antone’s, the hotspot of Lone Star hotspots.
NJBS Showcase Series Recap: Different Shades of Blue at Factory Records
NJBS Showcase Series Recap: Different Shades of Blue at Factory Records
Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar Concert Review
Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar Concert Review
An Unforgettable Evening of Blues at Ringwood Manor Barn Gallery
Blues and Art Unite at Ringwood Manor: On Saturday, the Uptown Boogie Band thrilled audiences at the Ringwood Manor Art Gallery during the 57th Annual Fall Exhibition (Aug 29–Oct 3). In partnership with NJBS, the evening blended soulful live blues with a stunning art exhibit in the gallery’s warm, wood-lined space.
Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford — Jump Blues Live 1972
For a handful of fruitful years during the 1970s, the two of them had quite the win-win scenario working: Jimmy Witherspoon—the consummate vocalist whose baritone started work back when jump blues was in its heyday—needed a fretsman to soup up his touring band; Robben Ford—the young lion whose guitar, having come under the spell of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, spoke the era’s longhaired dialect of blues plus straight blues—was in need of a high-profile band.
Garry Burnside's IT'S MY TIME NOW and Kent Burnside's HILL COUNTRY BLOOD
Well, well, well—as R.L. would boom in his grinning Mississippi drawl.
Released simultaneously, Garry Burnside’s It’s My Time Now and Kent Burnside’s Hill Country Blood just opened both barrels for a double blast of north Mississippi blues.
Big A Sherrod — Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound
You are at 305 Issaquena Avenue, right off 3rd Street. Ten minutes around the corner lies Red’s Lounge, where folks have been juking since the turn of the 1980s. But where you’re standing serves as a perfectly solid, makeshift juke that, at the moment, is erupting with blues. Because wailing before you—inside Clarksdale Reels, a recording studio moonlighting as a blues club in off-hours—is hometown hero Anthony “Big A” Sherrod fronting a three-piece band.
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Rory Block — Heavy On the Blues
From Charley to Buddy to Minnie and out to Jimi: Oh, what a day meant for zooming.
Rory Block’s newest batch of (largely) one-woman performances comes without a title track. Heavy On the Blues instead functions as a tipoff alerting you as to what awaits.
James Harman — The Bluesmoose Session
Serendipity tracked him down to a bustling barroom stage all the way over in Groesbeek, Netherlands. It was late-October 2018, and James “Icepick” Harman was at one of the whistle stops along his annual European tour, letting an appreciative Dutch audience hear for themselves why a harmonica with the blues is a thing of wailing wonder.
Harvey Mandel — Snake Walk
Darn that Ronnie Wood!
Harvey Mandel was that close to getting the nod to join “the world’s greatest rock-and-roll band.” But on second thought, Wood’s better fortune with the Rolling Stones served as the hand of fate that kept Mandel’s bold fretboard explorations from being detoured or corrupted. Because, in the 57 years since debuting in 1968 with Cristo Redentor, Mandel has kept stretching the bounds of what a guitar can sound like as well as what its strings can do.
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