Category: Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.

Tony Joe White – Rain Crow 2016

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A true icon of swamp rock, Tony Joe White parlayed his songwriting talent and idiosyncratic vocals into a modestly successful country and rock …

Blues | Rock
Posted on September 3, 2016 by admin

Cactus – Black Dawn 2016

1472740277_1472739671_frontThey were called “The American Led Zeppelin” back in 1970. Tall words, indeed, but Cactus – Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert, Jim McCarty and the late Rusty Day (who died in 1982) – came out only months after their Brit counterparts, only to flame out brightly after four albums (Cactus, One Way Or Another, ‘Ot ‘n’ Sweaty, and Restrictions) before 1973 even started. Now, four decades later, the band that made such an impression with their loud blues-edged hard rock madness…

Blues | Classic Rock | Hard Rock
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