The Place You’re In, Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s long-awaited fourth album, marks a stunning stylistic shift for an artist who almost single-handedly introduced blues-rock to a new audience. One of the most acclaimed guitarists of his generation not only leans more heavily toward rock, but also releases his first album featuring his vocals. Says Shepherd, whose first three albums …
Tragically, the entire archive of Paramount Records was lost, leading fans to scour attics and stores for copies. This 4-CD set finally rounds up 100 of these sides, some of the finest blues of any era, now with superb remastered sound: I Shall Not Be Moved Charley Patton; Doctor, Oh Doctor Henry Townsend; Three, Six and Nine Roosevelt …
Harry Manx has been called an ”essential link” between the music of East and West, creating musical short stories that wed the tradition of the Blues with the depth of classical Indian ragas. For Om Suite Om, his eleventh album, Manx teamed up with composer/producer Hans Christian (who worked with Daniel Lanois and was bassist on Robbie Robertson’s …
As with 1999’s Respect box, which chronicled women recording artists, Rhino again attempts to capture and condense a mighty field with the six-CD Say It Loud! And again, it largely succeeds. A companion to the VH1 series of the same name, Say It Loud! tells one story and many. It covers the development of many related genres, the …
While he is probably best known for his role as an electric guitarist in Jefferson Airplane during the late 60’s/early 70’s and as a founding member of the acoustic blues/rock group Hot Tuna, Kaukonen is also considered by many to be one of the preeminent practitioners of the Piedmont finger-picking style of acoustic blues. ‘River of Time’ finds …
Ry’s instrumental virtuosity, versatility and his ability to transcend genre have made him one of the most in-demand soundtrack composers over the last two decades of American cinema, and this 2-CD set collects the best of his unfailingly evocative film scores. Includes excerpts from Paris, Texas; Alamo Bay; The Long Riders; Geronimo; Crossroads; The Border; Blue City; Johnny …
Desperate Man Blues: Discovering the Roots of American Music
Subtitled: Discovering The Roots Of American Music. A compilation of songs as featured in Dust-to-Digital’s Desperate Man Blues DVD, chronicling the amazing life in music of Joe Bussard (founder of Fonotone Records). Blues. Gospel. Jazz. Hillbilly. The late 1920s was the Big Bang of the music industry. King of record collectors Joe Bussard tells the story of “America’s …