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Features

Making a Scene and Reverbnation Team up for the INDIE BLUES VOL 2 Compilation!

  In order to help discover new “indie blues” artists, Making A Scene is searching for independent artists that are creating new, original music that is rooted in the blues. The focus is not on traditional blues, but original blues that has the ability to appeal and be relevant to a new younger fan base. […]

Interviews

An Exclusive Interview with Ken Valdez

  https://www.kenvaldez.com/ https://www.facebook.com/kenvaldezmusic/?fref=ts Ken Valdez has been called “The Best Kept Secret” by well known/respected names in the industry. This guitarist/singer/songwriter/producer is grateful for the title, however, it is one he wishes to break free from. Born and raised in Santa Fe, NM, now a resident of St. Paul, MN, his love for music was […]

An Exclusive interview with In Layman Terms!

https://www.3inlaymanterms.com/ https://www.facebook.com/3InLaymanTerms/?fref=ts Cole and Logan Layman have grown up making music together. They are both multi-instrumentalists and write original music. They are young, passionate, and all about the blues. Their unique and diverse sound ranges from gritty, foot-stomping acoustic work, to an electrified big-band sound. They perform nationally as a duo, as a trio with […]

An Exclusive Interview with Janiva Magness!

https://janivamagness.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JanivaMagness/?fref=ts Janiva Magness’ new album Love Wins Again is yet another evolutionary step for the soulful, elegant, award-winning singer-songwriter. It’s 11 core songs and two bonus tracks are built on a sonically sophisticated architecture that’s in full service of Magness’ remarkably flexible and generous voice—which can flow smoothly as champagne or churn up gravel […]

An Exclusive Interview with Jeff Jensen!

https://jeffjensenband.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JeffJensenmusic/?fref=ts Sometimes all it takes is a tiny spark to ignite a raging inferno. For Jeff Jensen, the spark occurred in 2011. Feeling the need for a fresh start, he loaded up his car to head back to his boyhood home in California. Just as that journey was to begin, a deep and unexpected […]

CD Reviews

The Record Company Give It Back To You

The Record Company Give It Back To You Concord Music Group The Record Company’s Chris Vos grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm outside of New Munster, 50 miles south of Milwaukee. He was first inspired by Hendrix, Harrison, Fogarty, and Winter; so he got himself a guitar. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and […]

Blues For Big Walter Various Artists

Blues For Big Walter Various Artists Ellersoul Records This album follows on the success of 2013’s “Remembering Little Walter” released on Blind Pig Records. That Grammy nominated album was produced by Mark Hummel. It featured harmonica aces Hummel, Charlie Musselwhite, Billy Boy Arnold, James Harman and Sugar Ray Norcia. This new Big Walter tribute on […]

Brothers Brown Dusty Road

Brothers Brown Dusty Road Funky Joint Records/335 Records This is a great recording by four fabulous musicians. They aren’t brothers and should not be confused with the Brown Brothers, a country rock duo, from Virginia. The bands sound is a combination of blues, jazz, Americana, and rock n’ roll. To further confuse the issue two […]

Tangled In Layman Terms

Tangled In Layman Terms Independent The 2015 Bradenton Blues Festival was held on December 5th. It was produced by Paul Benjamin for Realize Bradenton. The headliners included Mike Zito, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, and Janiva Magness. In between the sets we were introduced to the young duo of Cole and Logan Layman whom are […]

Laura Rain & The Caesars Gold

Laura Rain & The Caesars Gold LRC Records Laura Rain grew up in the Detroit suburbs. Her mother loved Funk and took Laura to see live music as often as possible. Her dad loved Opera. Rain started listening to Aretha Franklin when she was fifteen. Rain got started in the Detroit blues scene as a featured […]

Maynard Ferguson 1986: “Body & Soul” and 1990: “Big Bop Nouveau”

Maynard Ferguson 1986: “Body & Soul” and 1990: “Big Bop Nouveau” www.OmnivoreRecordings.com Omnivore Recordings continues its Maynard Ferguson reissue campaign with two new packages from the three-time Grammy nominee and Downbeat magazine award winner. These two reissues of 1986’s “Body & Soul,” and 1990’s “Big Bop Nouveau” add bonus tracks; three for “Body & Soul,” […]

Jeff Chaz – “Sounds Like the Blues to Me”

Jeff Chaz is labeled on his website as “The Bourbon Street Bluesman,” and on “Sounds Like the Blues to Me,” that New Orleans influence is strong. He is a strong guitarist and vocalist and a clever songwriter. Before he switched to guitar, he played trumpet and trombone, which gave him a real fill for jazz. […]

Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue fea. Mark Hummel, Lil Charlie Baty, & Anson Funderburgh

Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue fea. Mark Hummel, Lil Charlie Baty, & Anson Funderburgh Electro-Fi Records   This is the debut release of what is being billed as a new supergroup. They are led by Mark Hummel, a Grammy nominated blues harmonica player, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader. Hummel formed his band The Blues Survivors […]

Jeff Jensen Live – “The River City Sessions”

I believe that Jeff Jensen, Bill Ruffino, and Robinson Bridgeforth are the most exciting  group to hear or see live on the contemporary blues scene. Having had the pleasure of seeing them a number of times, I can assert that this CD does a great job of capturing the sheer exuberance of Jensen live, although, […]

Mark Cameron Playing Rough

Mark Cameron Playing Rough Cop Records Mark Cameron is from Minnesota. He began performing in folk rock bands in the early seventies. In 1984 Cameron founded the twin cities based “Citizen’s Patrol”. Between 1986 and 1990 that band released three albums. Mark turned his focus to the blues and finally released his solo debut “Life […]

Curtis Salgado The Beautiful Lowdown

Curtis Salgado The Beautiful Lowdown Alligator Records Curtis Salgado was born in the town of Everett, Washington in 1954. By 1980 he was already a member of The Robert Cray Band and helped to launch Cray’s career as he plays harp on Cray’s debut recording “Who’s Been Talkin”. Salgado is also credited for turning John […]

On the Scene

This week: Blues in and around Atlanta April 17-23

What a week! There’s so much to see and do! Frankly, Jeff Jensen at Darwin’s is always the event I do not want to miss, but there’s also the Sweetwater 420 Fest with the Robert Randolph Family Band and The North Mississippi Allstars ably representing the blues, Walter  Trout and Geoff Atchison and Randall Bramblett […]

Come Celebrate Sean Costello at Northside Tavern Sat. April 16 – A Benefit for Bipolar Research!

The annual Sean Costello celebration and benefit,, titled “We Can Get Together.” begins at 7 p, Saturday at Northside Tavern in Atlanta. It will feature Sonia Leigh, The Joe McGuinness Trio, The Georgia Flood, No Solution, and Stephen Talkovich and Larry Griffith. Sean Costello was a brilliant young blues man who was and  still is […]

Concert review – Eliza Neals and The Narcotics at Darwin’s in Marietta, Ga April 9

Eliza Neals is like a small dynamo on the stage. Looking at the photos we took Saturday night, most of them show only a mass of blond hair and a slightly blurred body.. Since the stage at Darwin’s in not huge, this means that guitarist Howard Glaser and bassist Daryl Lee did not have a […]

Podcasts!

LIVE from the Midnight Circus “The VOICE of INDIE BLUES” 4/16/2016

This is the #1 and original VOICE OF INDIE Blues! The only show that brings you nothing but New Exciting artists who are currently touring and creating new original music rooted in the blues. This is NEW BLUES .. Artists who are continuing the true tradition of the blues by creating music with honesty and […]

This is the #1 and Original Voice of the Independent blues artist .. the INDIE Blues artist! .. Each week we bring you ONLY the best in what is happening in TODAY’s Blues .. by artists who are out there touring and creating new original music .. This is not just any blues show .. […]

This is the #1 and Original VOICE OF INDIE Blues .. The VOICE OF NEW BLUES!! We are the only show that is dedicated to bringing you ONLY touring artists who are creating new original music rooted in the blues .. What do we call these artists… INDIE Blues This week we start off with […]

SHOW #320 – 04/11/16 Live, Uncut and Uncensored Conversations With “Musicians You Should Know”   LISTEN HERE: https://goo.gl/Ki89UM   SMOKIN’ IN STEELE – FESTIVAL PARTNER John “Blueshammer” Hammer joined me to talk about the 2016 Smokin’ In Steele Blues Festival, a Festival partner of Music On The Couch. This is one of the coolest festivals around and […]

This is the #1 and Original VOICE of INDIE Blues .. The VOICE of the Independent Blues artist who is creating NEW BLUES .. Blues for the 21st Century! .. We play only Currently touring artists creating new original music rooted in the blues!! This week we start off with music from Ben Harper The […]

This is the #1 and Original VOICE OF INDIE Blues .. The VOICE of the touring artists who is creating new original music rooted in the blues! We only bring you what is happening today in Blues .. Great artists .. Great Music .. Tune and Discover what everyone is talking about .. INDIE Blues!! […]

This is the #1 and Original INDIE BLUES RADIO show on the Net! WE ARE THE VOICE OF NEW BLUES .. The Voice of the INDIE Blues artist! Each week we bring you ONLY currently touring artists who are creating new original music rooted in the blues. These artists are at the forefront of the […]