Big Bill Broonzy – Smiling Corgi Press

February 27, 2025

Review: Rory Gallagher

Blues (3CD Deluxe Edition) (UMC – Chess 2019) – CD2 – Acoustic Blues In May of 2019 Rory Gallagher’s estate released “Blues” (the title as unpretentious as Rory and his music). Available in two formats: a fifteen-track single CD and 2LP vinyl set and a thirty-six track 3CD Deluxe Edition. With performances ranging from 1971 […]

December 31, 2024

Spotlight: On Jo-Ann Kelly

January 05, 1944 – October 21, 1990 One can only guess as to where Kelly’s preternatural understanding of the blues idiom came from. More so than almost all of her contemporaries, she truly seemed born to “sing and play the blues”. There is never anything forced about her singing, never a sense that she […]

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