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Readers’ Pick: Tinsley Ellis – Naked Truth

Friday, February 16, 2024 By Tom Osborne

Tinsley Ellis – Naked Truth (cover art)

You picked Tinsley Ellis – Naked Truth as your favorite new release for the week of February 9, 2024.

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Tinsley Ellis – The Naked Truth

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 By Bill Wilcox

At this point, Tinsley Ellis is pretty much recognized as a blues master. Usually a hard blues-rocker of the Stevie Ray Vaughn school, now with The Naked Truth he has released his first all-acoustic blues album – and it’s fantastic. A native Georgian who spent much of his childhood in Florida, Ellis played in Atlanta […]

Filed Under: Blues, Reviews, Roots Tagged With: Tinsley Ellis

Tinsley Ellis on Songwriting and His 6th Grade Talent Show

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 By Mayer Danzig

Tinsley Ellis (credit - Flournoy Holmes)

Blues guitarist Tinsley Ellis talks about working in a medical library and why it’s a good time to be a music listener.

Filed Under: Blues, Interviews, Why It Matters Tagged With: Tinsley Ellis

The Twangville Early 2022 Release Preview

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 By Mayer Danzig

Meet the new year. Same as the old? Not so much on the music front with a great batch of new music on the horizon. Here are some releases eagerly anticipated by the Twangville posse. Hell on Church Street by Punch Brothers (14 January) The virtuoso string quintet remind us yet again why they are […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie Rock, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Del McCoury, Goodnight Texas, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Jamie McDell, Khruangbin, Leon Bridges, punch brothers, Ryan Culwell, Sarah Borges, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Shovels & Rope, Silver Lining, Spoon, Steve Dawson, Susan Cattaneo, The Whitmore Sisters, Tinsley Ellis

Bill’s Blues Based Best of 2016

Thursday, December 29, 2016 By Bill Wilcox

2016 was a hard year. But it was a pretty good year for the blues, with some of the highest profile blues musicians releasing fantastic albums. Below is my inexpert summary of some of the most memorable blues releases from the year to forget. 1. Steve Dawson – Solid States & Loose Ends. A relative unknown, Dawson’s […]

Filed Under: Americana, Blues, Reviews, Roots Tagged With: Big Dave McLean, Bob Margolin, Bobby Rush, Bonnie Raitt, David Bromberg, Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa, Luther Dickinson, Mavis Staples, Ronnie Earl, Steve Dawson, Taj Mahal, Tedeschi Trucks Band, the Rolling Stones, Tinsley Ellis

Readers’ Pick: Red Clay Soul by Tinsley Ellis

Friday, June 10, 2016 By Tom Osborne

Tinsley Ellis, cover art

TINSLEY ELLIS, Red Clay Soul beats out PAUL SIMON, Stranger to Stranger as your favorite for the week of June 3, 2016. Poll Results 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’ Top 25 Spring 2016 WILLIE NILE, World […]

Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Paul Simon, Tinsley Ellis

Bill’s Blues-Based Best – 2015

Tuesday, December 29, 2015 By Bill Wilcox

There’s no way we can claim to track all the new music that comes out in a year. But we’re wired to find what we like. While I certainly enjoy the alt. country artists so popular on Twangville (caught Jason Isbell’s show at the Electric Factory last summer – fantastic!) I tend to write more […]

Filed Under: Best of Year, Blues, Reviews Tagged With: Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, Duke Robillard, Guy Davis, Leo "Bud" Welch, Otis Taylor, Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King, Sonny Landreth, Steve Earle, Tinsley Ellis

Tinsley Ellis – Tough Love

Thursday, February 12, 2015 By Bill Wilcox

Tinsley Ellis came up as a hard-rocking guitar slinger in the mold of Stevie Ray Vaughan.  He was always known as a great axe-man, but as the decades passed and his art matured, he also became an accomplished songwriter and interpreter of the many shades of blues.  Kanye West might even be a little impressed with […]

Filed Under: Americana, Blues, Reviews, Roots, Soul/R&B, Streams Tagged With: Delbert McClinton, Tinsley Ellis

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