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Tag Archives: blues rock
Album review: GEOFF EVERETT – The Crow Hill Roadsters
Facebook [Release date 16.07.24] These hallowed GRTR! pages have been crowing about English blues treasure, Geoff Everett, for years and he keeps coming up with the goods, as evidenced by this latest collection of blistering blues rock cuts on newly-released album, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Geoff Everett, guitarist, Mellencamp, review, rock, The Crow Hill Roadsters
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Album review: KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND – Dirt On My Diamonds Vol. 2
Provogue [Release date: 20.09.24] Multi-Grammy-winning blues-rock star Kenny Wayne Sheppherd has been busy again. This time with older material. The two Dirt On My Diamonds volumes date back to recording/writing sessions at the famed Muscle Shoals studios in 2019. The … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Dirt on My Diamonds, funk, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, KWS, Noah Hunt, review, soul
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Album review: BRAVE RIVAL- Fight or Flight
Independent (Release Date 16.08.24) Brave Rival have become one of my favourite live bands over the past 18 months, with brilliant dual female vocals, excellent musicianship and a warm hearted stage show. 2022’s impressive debut album ‘Life’s Machine’ was … Continue reading
News: Albums of the Month (April – June 2024)
ATLANTIC Another World (Escape Music) This summer’s AOR album has arrived! Lush keys, harmonies, plenty of lovestruck lyrical themes, soaring guitar solos and the vocals of Mark Grimmett, who adds that extra bit of class to the whole musical proceedings. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, albums of the month, AOR, April, Atlantic, Big Big Train, Black Country Communion, blues rock, heavy rock, June, May, melodic rock, Nestor, Progressive Rock, rock, Son Of Man, These Wicked Rivers
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Gig review: THE COMMONERS – Arlington Arts Centre, 25 July 2024
Back at the lovely Arlington Arts Centre for a night of blues based rock. A decent sized crowd, which had me pondering that the artists on stage are looking younger each time, yet the audience is definitely getting older… Shout … Continue reading
Gig review: ROBIN TROWER – Islington Assembly Hall, London, 28 May 2024
Very few of the greats of the classic era of British rock guitarists are still active- a fact brought home by the loss of Jeff Beck and Bernie Marsden in the last couple of years while still at the peak … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, Chris Taggart, Connolly Hayes, Frankie Connolly, gig, guitar, Jess Hayes, Richard Watts, Robin Trower
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Album review: TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN – Electrified
Rattle Shake Records [Release date 10.05.24] Album number six from Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown who still don’t look old enough to have made so many albums. Seemingly down to a trio of Tyler Bryant (vocals, guitar) Caleb Crosby (drums), … Continue reading
Album review: BLACK SABBATH – Anno Domini 1989-1995
BMG [Release date 31.05.24] Another solid box from BMG, and four long out-of-print albums get a release. This set features Headless Cross (1989), Tyr (1990), Cross Purposes (1994) and Forbidden (1995). And before anyone goes “The Tony Martin Years”, this … Continue reading
EP review: REVENANT – What A Time To Be Alive
Facebook [Release date 10.05.24] Revenant are a new band, although the band’s members have plenty of musical experience, with Sugarman Sam (vocals, guitars) and Matthew Hudson (guitars) both previously in the Dead Jackals. They are joined bassist Robin Nutley and drummer Carl D. … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, EP, hard rock, Revenant, review, rock, southern rock, What a Time to Be Alive
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News: Albums Of The Month (January – March 2024)
MYRATH Karma (earMUSIC) They have big songs and even bigger ideas on how to present them live and are not short on confidence in their collective abilities, and rightly so. ‘Karma’ will only serve to further the Myrath cause … Continue reading
Gig review: SARI SCHORR- The Grace, London, 27 April 2024
It’s a mark of the ever growing respect East Coast powerhouse singer Sari Schorr is held in the blues world that the very best have been queuing up to collaborate with her, most recently Robin Trower joining forces on last … Continue reading
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Tagged Ash Wilson, blues, blues rock, gig, Matt Pearce, Matt Pearce and the Mutiny, Robin Trower, Sari Schorr
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Album review: THE MILK MEN – Holy Cow!
Website [Release date 03.05.24] The Milk Men comprise of former Pirates drummer Mike Roberts, Lloyd Green (son of guitar legend Mick Green, also a member of the Pirates in the past) on bass, vocalist Jamie Smy, and guitarist Adam Norsworthy … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Holly Cow!, review, rock, The Milk Men
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Album review: ROBIN TROWER – Bridge Of Sighs (50th Anniversary Edition)
Pete Feenstra chatted to Robin Trower for his show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 30 June 2024 Chrysalis (3CD/Blu Ray, 50th Anniversary Edition) [Release date 17.05.24] Blues/rock guitarist Robin Trower has had a long and distinguished career, … Continue reading
Album review: MANIC EDEN
Mascot Records [Release date 12.04.24] When Manic Eden released their self-titled debut, and only, album back in 1994 I was keen to get hold of a copy (I seem to recall this was a Japanese only release at first and … Continue reading
Gig review: BAD TOUCH- Patterns, Brighton, 13 April 2024
For the thriving domestic rock scene, we have bands like Bad Touch to thank. For over a decade now, the blues rockers have been traipsing up and down the country, doubly praiseworthy as their Norfolk base is somewhat off the … Continue reading
Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT Part 2 (Peter Frampton interview)
In the second part of our Steve Marriott feature, Iain McGonigal chatted to Peter Frampton in 2017 about their relationship, Humble Pie, and beyond… Sadly, Steve Marriott only lived for three and a half months of 1991. During this time, … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, classic rock, feature, hard rock, Humble Pie, interview, Peter Frampton, Steve Marriott, The Herd
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Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT (Part 1)
In his show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on Sunday 21 April David Randall played a selection of tracks celebrating Steve Marriott. It’s 33 years since the sad passing of Steve Marriott (20 April 1991). Here Iain McGonigal recalls … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, classic rock, feature, hard rock, Humble Pie, Steve Marriott, The Official Receivers, The Small Faces
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EP review: ROOM11 – We All Fall Down
Website [Release date 03.05.24] ROOM11 are an eclectic power duo from South London whose debut release is this EP, ‘We All Fall Down’. In a very short time, ROOM11 has managed to achieve a unique sound that incorporates an old-school … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, Chrisy Finn, debut, EP, review, Robbie Pinnetto, rock, Room11, We All Fall Down
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Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA – Royal Albert Hall, London, 4 April 2024
As he told us midway through the set, it’s now 15 years since the relatively inexperienced Joe Bonamassa gambled in following in the footsteps of his blues rock heroes at the Royal Albert Hall. It capped a meteoric rise, just … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 April 2024, blues, blues rock, CalvinTurner, gig, Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith, Lemar Carter, London, Reese Winans, review, Royal Albert Hall
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Album review: FOGHAT – Slow Ride – Live In Concert
Cleopatra [Release date 05.04.24] British band Foghat, who were formed by members of Savoy Brown and Black Cat Bones in the early, have produced some of the finest blues/rock ever laid to record over the years, and some live albums … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, blues rock, boogie, CD, classic rock, DVD, Foghat, Lonesome Dave Peverett, review, rock, Roger Earl, Slow Ride - Live In Concert
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EP review: SILVEROLLER – At Dawn
Bandcamp [Release date 01.03.24] Silveroller announced their presence last year with a line-up of respected blues guitarist Aaron Keylock joined by drummer Joe Major, bassist Tadhg Bean Bradley, organist Ross Munro and a real vocal find in Jonnie Hodson. Boy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Keylock, At Dawn, blues, blues rock, classic rock, debut, EP, hard rock, Jonnie Hodson, review, Silveroller
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Album review: SAMI YAFFA – Satan’s Helpers War Lazer Eyes And The Money Pig Circus
Livewire/Cargo [Release date 08.03.24] Friends will tell you that I am a huge fan of the Stones, Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue or Def Leppard, and they are right, but for me there is one band that will always remain … Continue reading
Gig review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR- Indigo2, London, 22 February 2024
2024 is a big year for Joanne Shaw Taylor with a new album ‘Heavy Soul’ on the way, and already a single release, and a UK tour including this, her biggest London headline show to date, albeit in the Indigo’s … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, blues rock, Connor Selby, gig, Joanne Shaw Taylor
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Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL – Thames Side Brewery, Staines,18 February 2024
One of my biggest discoveries of 2023 was Brave Rival (a belated one, I know, as this website first marked them as a band to watch in 2019). I saw them three times during the year but the one that … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Dedman, blues rock, Brave Rival, Chloe Josephine, Donna Peters, Ed Clarke, gig, Lindsey Bonnick
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Gig review: SWEET CRISIS- The Cavern, Raynes Park, London, 17 February 2024
Cambridge based Sweet Crisis have been on the scene for quite a few years, peddling a classic rock imbued with large dollops of blues and soul. I’d only seen them before on a couple of impressive and well received support … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, gig, Leo Robarts, Piers Mortimer, Rob Bullock, Sweet Crisis, The Cavern
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