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Tag Archives: Chuck Berry
Album review: MIKE ZITO AND FRIENDS – Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry

Ruf Records [Release date 01.11.19] ‘Mike Zito And Friends – Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry’ is a pit stop, or a pause for breathe in a career that has brought him critical acclaim as both a musician … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Castiglia, album, Ally Venable, Anders Osborne, Charlie Berry, Chuck Berry, Eric Gales, Joanna Connor, Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith, Kid Anderson, Kirk Fletcher, Mike Zito, Mike Zito And Friends, Nat King Cole, review, Robben Ford, Rock 'N' Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry, Tinsley Ellis, Tommy Castro, Walter Trout
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Book Review: DOUG MACLEOD –The Authorized Compact Biography by Vincent Abbate

Create Space Independent Publishing Platform [Published 18.09.18] Vicente Abbate’s 143 page paperback ‘Doug MacLeod: The Authorized Compact Biography’, takes a unique approach in his appreciation of his blues hero. Abbate dives straight into the first time he came across the … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic blues, Albert Collins, album, BB King, Big Mama Thornton Hollywood Fats, blues, Chuck Berry, Doug MacLeod, Ernest Banks, George ‘Harmonica’ Smith, guitar, Pee Wee Crayton, review, Robert Lockwood Jnr, Smokey Wilson a young Rod Piazza, The Authorized Compact Biography, Vincent Abbate Who Is Blues Vol.1, Walter Trout, Willie Dixon
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Album review: GEORGE BENSON – Walking To New Orleans

Provogue [Release date 26.04.19] George Benson’s ‘Walking To New Orleans’ continues where his last Nat King Cole covers album left off 3 years ago. It’s not so much a leap of faith , as simply discovering whether his timeless vocal … Continue reading
Album review: THE BETTERDAYS – Backlash

NTB Records [Release date 14.09.18] The Betterdays were the South West’s leading British r&b band in the mid-60′s. They paid their dues, did the mileage, filled the clubs and enthusiastically played a compelling mixture of rhythm and blues, all neatly … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alexis Korner, Backlash, Bo Diddley, Bob Pitcher, Chuck Berry, Dick Taylor, Dr Feelgood, Jerry Lee lewis, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Manfred Mann, Mike Hayne, Mike Weston, Phil May, review, rhythm and blues, The Animals, The Betterdays, The Pretty Things, The Rolling Stones, Willie Dixon
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Album review: THE PRETTY THINGS – Greatest Hits

Madfish [Release date 13.10.17] There are few bands who have make it to their 50th anniversary, let alone with such a welter of re-issues to mark the occasion. Indeed, The Pretty Things enthusiastic record company Madfish has already issued three … Continue reading
Quick plays: BURNT OUT WRECK, CHESS ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

BURNT OUT WRECK Swallow Cherry Red Records [Release date 24.03.17] Gary Moat was the drummer with Scottish rockers Heavy Pettin’ and for his new band, Burnt Out Wreck, he leaves his drum kit behind to head for the mic stand. … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, album, alternative, Anna Coogan, Bo Diddley, Burnt Out Wreck, Chess, Chuck Berry, compilation, country, folk, For All Our Sins, Gary Moat, Heavy Pettin', Just Go Wild Over Rock 'N' Roll, KROKUS, review, rock, rock 'n' roll, Sound of the Sirens, Swallow, The Lonely Cry of Space and Time
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Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – Different Shades Of Blue

Mascot/Provogue [release date 22.09.14] My granddad always told me to read the small print, so having read that this was Joe’s first self penned album for years, I checked the afore mentioned small print to discover that he’s spent time … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Country Community, Chuck Berry, Cornell Dupree, Deeper Shade Of Blue, Elmore James, Gary Nicholson, Glenn Hughes, guitar, James House, Jerry Flowers, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Bonamassa, Jonathan Cain, Led Zeppelin, Lee Thornburg, Ray Charles, review, Tower of Power
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Album review: CHA CHA’s CADILLAC – Battle Hymn

Cha Cha’s Cadillac [Release date 28.11.14] 32 years and plenty of miles separate the cowpunk of San Diego’s The Beat Farmers and the roots rockabilly and alt. country appeal Cha Cha’s Cadillac, but cutting edge rocking music is still alive, … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, alt country, Battle Hymn, Cha Cha's Cadillac, Charlie Daniels, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Heather Taylor, Johnny Cash, Randy Jett, rockabilly, Sean Contreras, Steve Wyse, Stray Cats, The Beat Farmers
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Album review: THE WILD MAGNOLIA MARIACHIS – Boogie Indians

NotNowMom! [Released 13.06.14] With a name like The Wild Magnolia Mariachis, you suspect this isn’t going to be anything less than a stomping party record. And so it proves, as the 9 piece band rock their way through old school … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Bo Diddley, boogie, Boogie Indians, Bruce Springsteen, Christian Sudendorf, Christos, Chuck Berry, Frenzy Erl, Manito, mariachi, Mosquito, review, rock& roll, Southside Johnny, Steven Van Zandt, Sudi, The Wild Magnolia Mariachis, Tito, ZZ Top
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Album review: GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS– Live At Montreux 2013

Eagle Rock[Release date 18.11.13] Having paid his dues through relentless road work – including a 50 states in 50 nights tour – and his self titled debut album in 1976 – George Throrogood made his major label breakthrough on Capital … Continue reading
Album review: THE WESTERN SIZZLERS – For Ol’ Times Sake

Roar Hide Records [Release date: 20.05.13] ‘Unfinished Business’, the penultimate track on The Western Sizzlers ‘For Ol’ Times Sake’, neatly summarises self exiled British musical maverick Kevin Jennings’s situation. A former catalyst for the Georgia Satellites (he got them signed … Continue reading
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Tagged alt country, Atlanta, Blackberry Smoke, boogie, Charlie Starr, Chuck Berry, country, For Ol' Times Sake, Georgia Satellites, guitar, Jason & The Scorchers, Jeff Bakos, Keith Richard, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Kevin Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Larue Riccio, Nicky Ford, Rick Richards, roots, southern rock, Status Quo, The Beatles, The Black Crowes, The Stray Cats, The Western Sizzlers, TobyMarriott, Wayne Glass
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