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Bill’s Belated Blues-Based Best of 2019

Friday, January 03, 2020 By Bill Wilcox

Well, it’s that time of the year again, and after awakening from my yearly food coma, I realized I hadn’t compiled my annual inexpert list of favorite blues-based albums. Well, here we go:  Jimmy “Duck” Holmes – Cyprus Grove. A collection of earthy originals and covers from the last of a breed of Mississippi Delta […]

Filed Under: Best of Year, Blues, Reviews Tagged With: Beth Hart, Blue Moon Marquee, Christone Ingram, Gary Clark Jr., Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, Jontavious Willis, Keb Mo, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Manx Marriner Mainline, Mavis Staples, North Mississippi All-Stars, Rival Sons, Ronnie Earl, Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Samantha Fish, Savoy Brown

Readers’ Pick: Samantha Fish – Kill or Be Kind

Friday, September 27, 2019 By Tom Osborne

Samantha Fish - Kill or Be Kind (cover art)

You picked Samantha Fish – Kill or Be Kind as your favorite new release for the week of September 20, 2019. New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments. Readers’ Tops Summer & Fall 2019 Ben Davis Jr. […]

Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Samantha Fish

Bill’s Blues-Based Best of 2017

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 By Bill Wilcox

For me, and perhaps for all of us, 2017 was a year of challenges and changes. But through the challenges we’re facing, it’s reassuring to fall back on great music that expresses our frustrations and hopes. The following are my inexpert highlights of the best of blues-based (not strictly blues) music of 2017.  North Mississippi Allstars – Prayer […]

Filed Under: Blues, Reviews Tagged With: Al Basile, Cary Morin, Coco Montoya, Elvin Bishop, Eric Bibb, Gregg Allman, John Mayall, Keb Mo, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, North Mississippi All-Stars, Otis Taylor, Peter Parcek, Robert Cray, Ronnie Earl, Samantha Fish, Taj Mahal

Samantha Fish – Black Wind Howlin’

Friday, October 18, 2013 By Bill Wilcox

Samantha Fish is a precocious young guitarist and singer with the wind – the howlin’ black wind – at her back. At 24, the Kansas City native already has a Blues Music Award under her belt for Best New Artist Debut for her 2011 album Runaway.  Along with British blues-rocker Dani Wilde and Otis Taylor’s […]

Filed Under: Blues, Reviews Tagged With: Mike Zito, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Samantha Fish

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