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Features

New blues documentary ‘I Am the Blues.’

A new blues documentary, I Am the Blues is about to start screening around the country. If you are a fan of genuine traditional blues music, blues history, or black history, this film will suck you in, hold you to the end, and leave you wanting more. The film features Bobby Rush. Barbara Lynn, Henry […]

Mark Telesca Medical and Living Assistance Fund

   Mark had emergency surgery in early March and was diagnosed with a form of cancer called Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. After recovering from surgery, he had to begin chemotherapy treatments. Mark continued  to work until he had a serious setback in the beginning of May. He ended up back in the hospital with another serious condition […]

Independent Blues Awards Nominations are IN! VOTE NOW!!

The Independent Blues Awards are now officially ready to be voted on. Below is a preview of all the nominated artists, CD’s and Songs. The one thing you will notice with our voting is we believe it is important that you have the opportunity to experience journey of discovery of new music. This is why […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Independent Blues Awards Preview Part 2

This week we have a special preview of the nominations of the Independent Blues Awards! We go through some of the Best Song nominations and sample some of the Best CD nominations in several different categories! .. If you have not voted for your favorite as of yet .. make it a point to do […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Independent Blues Awards Preview Part 1

This is a very special show .. we give you a preview of the nominated artists in the Independent Blues Awards in the song categories! .. These are the artists who are creating the future of the blues by Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always have and still is being created from it’s […]

Interviews

An In Depth Interview with Joseph Veloz

Joseph – who lives in the Ann Arbor, MI area – is a world-class bass player, who is as comfortable playing classical music as he is playing Jazz, Funk or Chicago Blues. He is a passionate player, and brings with him years of musical and touring experience. Joseph exhibits an unforgettable, high-energy stage presence and […]

An In Depth Interview with Willa Vincitore

 Singer/songwriter Willa Vincitore (formerly McCarthy) has been building a fan base across the Hudson Valley for nearly two decades. While her songwriting is an eclectic mix of blues, soul, rock, funk and (occasionally) pop, there’s one thing that ties it all together—that voice. Before launching her own band, she was an original member of the […]

An In Depth Interview with Amy Black

 HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Amy Black has always been drawn to soul singers. But it wasn’t until she began exploring her own southern soul roots for her last album, The Muscle Shoals Sessions, that she found her musical sweet spot — and knew her next stop had to be the place where blues and soul […]

An In Depth interview with Selywn Birchwood

HOME PAGE FACEBOOK With his fiery guitar and lap steel playing, his trailblazing, instantly memorable songs and gritty, unvarnished vocals, Selwyn Birchwood is among the most extraordinary young stars in the blues. His deep familiarity with blues tradition allows him to bust the genre wide open, adding new sounds, colors and textures, all delivered with […]

An In Depth Interview with Gina Sicilia

Dynamic vocalist and live performer Gina Sicilia’s new album, Tug of War, celebrates her status as one of the reigning voices in modern blues and marks a potent evolution in her songwriting. The 11-song set is Sicilia’s seventh release since her emergence as a doyenne of the genre a decade ago. Today, Sicilia’s experience and […]

An In Depth Interview with Jason Ricci

 HOME PAGE FACEBOOK Harmonica player, bandleader, and singer/songwriter Jason Ricci is one of a handful of new young lions on the blues scene who are helping to expand the parameters of the idiom. Ricci steers clear of traditional blues themes in his songwriting, yet his playing shows a tremendous amount of knowledge and respect for […]

An Interview with Linda Brandemark of Lighthouse Sweden

 HOME PAGE FACEBOOK Lighthouse Sweden was created by Mats & Linda Brandemark. They have cultivated a sound that unequivocally belongs in the tradition of American contemporary rock. Their debut album “Lighthouse” delivers eleven tracks that guide the listener in an exploration of melancholic pop music, catchy Americana, and timeless rock n’ roll. The album received some great reviews. […]

CD Reviews

Delta Wires – ‘Born in Oakland’

Delta Wires is a seven-piece California blues band They were literally born in Oakland over 30 years ago as a college project for lead vocalist and harmonica player Ernie Pinata. Born in Oakland is the band’s seventh album and as the press release states, “demonstrates a further maturation of the group’s West Coast blues style.” […]

Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind Approved By Snakes

 Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind Approved By Snakes Ellersoul Records Jason Ricci has been the recipient of many awards including the coveted Blues Music Award for Blues Instrumentalist – Harmonica which he won in 2010. He is also the only openly gay male star in the blues community. As a performance artist of the […]

Hot Roux Hometown Blues

 Hot Roux Hometown Blues Hi Hat Records Jerry McWorter is the leader of Hot Roux. Inspired by Levon Helm, of The Band, McWorter formed the Louisiana styled swamp rock trio in order that there be a rhythm section to backup artists like James Harman, Lynwood Slim and Albert Lee. Expanding into a trio they recorded […]

Karen Lovely Fish Outta Water

 Karen Lovely Fish Outta Water Independent Karen Lovely hails from Massachusetts. She started performing in 1987 but didn’t start singing blues until twenty years later. She was living in the Pacific Northwest when she released her 2008 debut recording “Lucky Girl”. Lovely competed in the band competition at the 2010 International Blues Challenge and finished […]

Gordon Meier Blues Experience Magic Kingdom

Gordon Meier Blues Experience Magic Kingdom Independent This album is a great introduction to an accomplished guitarist and vocalist. Gordon Meier has been part of the Western New Jersey blues scene for quite some time. For the last twenty five or more years he has been in a Morris County band called The Midnight Street […]

Low Society Sanctified 

 Low Society Sanctified Rezonate Records This is the third album from the band called Low Society. The band is the brainchild of lead singer Mandy Lemons and guitarist Sturgis Nikides. They released their debut recording “High Time” in 2011. Their follow-up was 2014’s “You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down”. The title track from that […]

Andy T Band Double Strike

 Andy T Band Double Strike fea. Alabama Mike, Nick Nixon & Anson Funderburgh American Showplace Music When guitarist Andy Talamantez left the West coast he settled in Nashville. Andy used to lead the Nashville Blues Society’s Sunday night jam and it was there that he first met James “Nick” Nixon. Once they became partners in […]

Linsey Alexander Two Cats

Linsey Alexander Two Cats Delmark Records The seventy four year old Linsey Alexander was born in Mississippi and raised in Memphis. He has been part of Chicago’s North Side blues scene for over two decades. He released his debut recording in 2004; “Someone’s Cooking in My Kitchen” included the song “Hoochie Man” and that has […]

Amy Black Memphis

 Amy Black Memphis Reuben Records Amy Black began her recording career as an alternative Country or Americana artist. In 2013 between her first and second albums Black released a four song EP called “The Muscle Shoals Session”. Recorded at the Fame studio that session spoke to her soul and Black changed her musical direction. Black […]

Kilborn Alley Blues Band The Tolono Tapes

 Kilborn Alley Blues Band presents The Tolono Tapes Run It Back Records The Kilborn Alley Blues Band was formed some seventeen years ago. Their very first album was self-titled and released in 2003 on Peedee Records. No other information on this recording is available. The bands next four albums were on Nick Moss’s Blue Bella […]

Gina Sicilia Tug of War

 Gina Sicilia Tug of War Blue Elan Records Gina Sicilia is from the greater Philadelphia area. She released her first studio album “Allow Me To Confess” in 2006 one year before graduating from Temple University with a degree in Journalism. Sicilia had been writing songs since the age of twelve so she had ample material […]

Guitar Slim Jr. The Story of My Life

Guitar Slim Jr. The Story of My Life Orleans Records Rodney Glenn Armstrong a.k.a. Guitar Slim Jr. is a New Orleans blues guitarist and singer and the son of Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones. Guitar Slim is best known for his million selling hit single “The Things That I Used to Do”. The elder Slim died […]

Polly O’Keary and The Rhythm Method Black Crow Callin’

 Polly O’Keary and The Rhythm Method Black Crow Callin’ Independent Polly O’Keary grew up in a log cabin with no plumbing or electricity. At the age of nineteen she had a husband in prison and an 8th grade education. Twenty years later she was a bassist for touring blues bands including “Too Slim & The […]

On The Scene

ACTRESS, SINGER/SONGWRITER RAFFAELA CAPP TO STAR IN HIGH SCHOOL BULLY DRAMEDY “REACH”

The Talented Young Star Plays Female Lead Role in New Film With In-Depth Focus Around The Lives of Bullies And How Kindness Can Change Lives Following the release of her single and music video “Hurricane”, it was recently announced that Actress and Singer/Songwriter RAFFAELA will star in new film “REACH” with Garrett Clayton (Disney’s Beach […]

Atlanta Blues Society Gathering and Jam, June 25, 2017

 Sunday, June 25, the Atlanta Blues Society had its monthly Gathering and Jam. This time, the meeting was at The Vista at Napoleon’s in Decatur. The Vista is a wonderful venue with a large stage perfect for bands and jams, lots of tables and plenty of dancing room. In other words perfect for the ABS! […]

Bringing A Hip New Feel to Cabaret – Porter Carroll Jr. Comes to NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below Saturday, July 8th

Called “A Bold and Daring Nightclub Act for the Modern World” (Huffington Post), Atlantic Starr Founder and Rhythm & Blues Hit Machine Brings “The Evolution of Cabaret” to Feinstein’s Debut June, 2017 (New York, NY) – On Saturday, July 8th at 7:00PM singer, songwriter, drummer, and percussionist Porter Carroll, Jr.–who is currently performing world wide […]

Third Annual Coltrane Day Music Festival: Music Workshops & Community Jams From Ages 14+ Saturday, July 22nd

 Coltrane Day Music Festival  at Heckscher Park, Huntington Village Will Bring Teens and Adults Together with 12 Incredible Workshops from Music Improvisation to Rap/Hip-Hop June, 2017 (Huntington, NY) — On Saturday, July 22rd 2:00PM – 10:30 PM, The Coltrane Home in Dix Hills in conjunction with the Town of Huntington Summer Arts Festival and the […]

What a blast! Bluesberry and Beer Festival, Norcross, GA, June 17, 2017

By Rhetta Akamatsu Photos by Takesi Ken Akamatsu Norcross, GA is a perfect town for a music festival, nd every year they have one, the Bluesberry and Beer Festival, featuring some of the best local blues acts. The festival is totally free, and people come out in droves. This year’s festival took place last weekend, […]

 

PODCASTS

 

MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #378

MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #378 06/26/17 LISTEN HERE: https://goo.gl/AKDmsT ANN ARBOR BLUES FESTIVAL The Ann Arbor Blues Festival has become a Festival Sponsor for Music On The Couch. The festival is returning after an 11-year absence and we spoke with Founder, James Partridge about the event and how it all came back together. WEBSITE       […] 

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Joseph Veloz

Tune into The Voice of Indie Blues the show that brings you the future of the blues with artists that understand that they must Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists are, in the true tradition of the blues, the Innovators .. not […] 

 

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Willa Vincitore

Tune into The Voice of Indie Blues .. the show that brings you those artists who Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always has and still is being created from its roots. These are the innovators of the blues .. not the imitators .. These ARE the Indie Blues Artists! This week we start […] 

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Amy Black

This is The Voice of Indie Blues the show that brings you the best in Independent Blues Artists who are out there touring and creating new original music rooted in the blues. These artists Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These are the NEW […]

 

LIVE from the Midnight Circus “The Voice of Indie Blues” 6/23/2017

This is the Podcast of LIVE from the Midnight Circus, The Voice of Indie Blues! This is the show that brings you the future of the blues being created by artists who Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists are the innovators not […]

 

Music on the Couch Show #377

MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #377 LISTEN HERE: https://goo.gl/GVvs7V     STEVE KRASE Steve is out of Houston, TX.  In April he released, Should’ve Seen It Coming and it continues to get solid airplay. Steve and i spoke about his journey from Brooklyn to Houston and places in between while we listened to tunes from the album. WEB […] 

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Selwyn Birchwood

Tune into The Voice of Indie Blues the show that brings you the future of the blues being made by artists who are creating new original music from it’s roots. These artists Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots .. these are the innovators .. […] 

LIVE from the Midnight Circus “The Voice of Indie Blues” 6/12/2017

This is The Voice of Indie Blues, the show that brings you the best in the future of the blues. These artists Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These are the innovators not the imitators, these are the Indie Blues Artists This week we have […]

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Gina Sicilia

This is The Voice of Indie Blues .. The show that brings you the Innovators not the imitators .. we bring you those artists who are creating new original music rooted in the blues. These artists Embrace the Diversity of the Blues which always has and still is being created from it’s roots.. These are […]  

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Jason Ricci

This is The Voice of Indie Blues the show that brings you those artists who are out there creating new original music rooted in the blues .. these are the artists who Embrace the Diversity of the Blues which always has and still is being created from the roots .. These are the innovators .. […]  

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Lighthouse Sweden

This is The Voice of Indie Blues the show that brings you the future of the blues. We play the artists who are creating new original music rooted in blues .. these artists Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always has and still is being created form it’s roots. These are the innovators .. […]

 

LIVE from the Midnight Circus “The Voice of Indie Blues” 5/6/2017

This is the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus The Voice of Indie Blues, the show that brings you those artists who are creating new original music rooted in the blues. These artists Embrace the Diversity of the Blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These are the Innovators […]