Music
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Texas Flood (Columbia Legacy)
This two-disc set pairs a live set with the studio version of Texas Flood. Recorded at Ripley’s Music Hall in Philadelphia on October 20, 1983, and his band offer up […]
Hardly a Blue Moment: Jazz Fest Sound Meteorology
“They call us the sound police,” explains Juan Lobostrie, a festival staffer who makes his way around the grounds on foot and via golf cart. Lobostrie and two others work […]
Satchmo SummerFest, French Quarter, August 3, 2007
Many jazz loving out-of-towners think the annual Satchmo SummerFest is the perfect excuse to come to New Orleans in August. The festival is far from attracting the hordes of tourists […]
Watermelon Slim and the Workers, The Wheel Man (Northern Blues)
Oklahoma guitarist, singer and songwriter Watermelon Slim is breaking new lyrical ground in modern blues music, and that’s a good thing. Some blues fans are getting tired of the same […]
Rory Block, From The Dust (Telarc Blues)
Block offers up a great collection of acoustically rendered original songs on her new disc. Block’s voice and guitar stylings are so original that her covers of classic blues like […]
