Joanne Shaw Taylor – The Trouble With Love
Joanne Shaw Taylor released “The Trouble With Love” on 23 October through Journeyman Records, produced by Kevin Shirley, with Joe Bonamassa and Orianthi as guests.
Blues
El blues que és origen de bona part del rock i el jazz que cobrim a Tótum Revolútum Press: de les formes més clàssiques a les bandes que hi busquen avui un llenguatge nou. Novetats discogràfiques, concerts i entrevistes.
Sue Foley – alone (together) A Holiday Companion
Sue Foley releases “alone (together) A Holiday Companion” on CD and vinyl, eight tracks produced by her and Michael Zschoche.
Robert Cray releases “All Over Again” on 12 February, seven years after his last album
Nine tracks cut at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals and produced by Steve Jordan. The advance single, “Push Through”, is about the right to vote.
Bernard Allison – Loving You
Seven originals and three covers, one of them his father Luther’s. The idea was to bring family and friends together, and it hands the second guitar to someone else on six of the ten tracks.
Graveyard – Fever
Graveyard’s seventh album: nine songs, thirty-eight minutes and nobody from outside producing it. It is signed by a line-up that broke up on 30 June.
Sari Schorr – Running Wild
Her first solo studio album in eight years, made by four people at Lucid Studios. The voice arrives intact; what the record never finds is somebody to push back against it.
Leoni Jane Kennedy – Synthetic
Debut album from the British guitarist Brian May and Roger Taylor gave a scholarship to at eighteen: seven songs road-tested for years, with the Hammond on “Sloe” and the guitar nearly always down in the foundations.
Tinariwen – Hoggar
The Tuareg band’s tenth album, with José González and Sudanese singer Solafa Elyas guesting. Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni harmonise together for the first time in thirty years.
Ruf reissue Alastair Greene’s “Trouble At Your Door” on 13 November, remastered by the engineer who recorded it in 2013
The album was a 2014 Delta Groove release. Sean McCue, who recorded it in 2013 in Santa Barbara, has remastered it, and the edition adds two tracks from the same sessions.
Dom Flemons records an album on twenty-two Smithsonian instruments, among them the guitars of Elizabeth Cotten and Mississippi John Hurt
“Making American Music: The Smithsonian Sessions” is out on 22 January and is the first roots record made only with pieces from the museum. Twenty-one songs.
Joanne Shaw Taylor releases “You And Me (Rachel’s Song)”, written for her best friend
It is the ninth of the ten tracks on “The Trouble With Love”, out on 23 October through Journeyman and produced by Kevin Shirley.
Joe Bonamassa on the AI-generated blues artist: “Should those artists be in the same category as living people? No”
He said it at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Austin, asked about Eddie Dalton. His line is between using the tool and competing on the same chart as a living musician.
Sass Jordan dies at 65, two weeks after stepping away from everything for an illness that was never named
She died on Friday 2 October surrounded by her family. In September she had cleared the rest of the year for a “serious medical condition” that was never specified.
Laura Cox releases her first live album on 20 November, cut at Le Trianon in Paris
“Trouble Coming To Paris: Live At Le Trianon” captures the 10 April show at Le Trianon. It comes as a double LP and as a CD with Blu-ray, both limited.
Bernard Allison previews “Time Traveler” with Larry McCray ahead of “Loving You” on 16 October
The guitarist brings in two guests on six strings, Larry McCray and Matthew Mwangi. It is his first album in four years.
Buddy Guy has a new album coming in 2027, produced by Steve Jordan with Kim Wilson guesting
The guitarist’s team has named the producer and part of the band, but no title and no date. He turned ninety back in July.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake, David Coverdale’s project (ex-Deep Purple), a pillar of British blues rock and hard rock.
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac, from British blues rock to American pop-rock with the album Rumours.
Canned Heat
Canned Heat, the Los Angeles boogie blues band, known for “On the Road Again”.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues rock guitarist who revitalised the genre in the eighties, killed in a helicopter accident in 1990.
ZZ Top
ZZ Top, the Texan blues rock trio, a benchmark of boogie riffs and legendary beards.
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band, a benchmark of American southern rock and blues rock.
Cream
Cream, the first great blues rock power trio, with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker, pioneer of the electric blues guitar and a direct influence on B.B. King and Chuck Berry.
Elmore James
Elmore James, a master of electric slide guitar, known for “Dust My Broom”.
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson, a legendary figure of Mississippi Delta blues, who died at 27.
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker, an essential figure of Delta and Detroit electric blues.
B.B. King
B.B. King, “the King of the Blues”, one of the most influential figures of the electric guitar.
Free
Free, the British blues-rock band known for “All Right Now” and the forerunner of Bad Company.
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Tedeschi Trucks Band, the project of the married couple Tedeschi and Trucks, blues-rock rooted in southern soul.
Gary Clark Jr.
Gary Clark Jr., an Austin guitarist who blends blues, soul and hip-hop, acclaimed as one of the greats of the 21st century.
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa, an American guitarist and a central figure in the revival of contemporary blues-rock.
Rory Gallagher
Rory Gallagher, an Irish blues-rock guitarist, a benchmark for live performance and unadorned simplicity.
Freddie King
Freddie King, one of the “three Kings” of the blues and a direct reference for British blues-rock guitarists.
Albert King
Albert King, the left-handed blues guitarist and a direct influence on Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton.
Howlin’ Wolf
Howlin’ Wolf, one of the greats of Chicago blues, with an unmistakable deep voice and stage presence.
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters, the father of Chicago electric blues and a direct influence on 20th-century rock.
Ben Poole releases “Post-Midnight Behaviour”, ten tracks with Elles Bailey guesting on the single
His first new material in eight years: out on 25 September through Gypsy Soul Records, on CD, vinyl and digital. He sings the single, “Runaway Souls”, with Elles Bailey.
700 Milles opens a concert venue on La Rambla with a blues and soul series in October
700 Milles, a new venue on La Rambla 12, opens in October with four blues and soul shows on Thursdays, tickets €15.
Mike Bloomfield’s last recorded concert, taped fifteen days before he died, is out on 9 October
“Dark Road Blues: Santa Cruz 1981” captures the 31 January night at The Catalyst: ten songs, alone with acoustic guitar and piano. Liberation Hall.