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Tag Archives: Etta James
Album review : BLUES PILLS – Birthday
Pete Feenstra chatted to guitarist Zach Anderson and drummer André Kvarnström for his show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 28 July 2024. Throwdown Entertainment / BMG Rights Mascot [Release date : 09.08.24] Swedish rock band Blues Pills have … Continue reading
Gig review: BETH HART/Colin James – Royal Festival Hall, London, 23 November 2016
It isn’t just her remarkable voice and emotive songs, let alone her vivacious stage presence that marks Beth Hart out as special, it’s much more than that. She’s a force of nature and a previously troubled soul who has dragged … Continue reading
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Tagged beth Hart, Bill Ransom, Colin James, Etta James, Fire On The Floor, gig, Howlin Wolf, Jon Nichols, paino, review, Royal Festival Hall, Van Morrison, vocal
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Gig review: GIRLS WITH GUITARS 2015 – Boom Boom Club, Sutton, 25 April 2015
What a difference three months touring makes. Last February the 2015 Blues Caravan/Girls With Guitars made a splash at the Skegness Rock & Blues Festival, but only got about 45 minutes to show what they can do. A few months … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Blues Caravan, boogie, Dave Mason, Eliana Cargnelutti, Etta James, gig, Girls With Guitars 2015, guitar, Gwen McCrae, Heather Crosse, Jamie Little, review, rock, ruf records, Sadie Johnson, soul, Warren Haynes, Willie Dixon, ZZ Top
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EP review: MAKUINI – Roll The Dice
Self release [Release date 05.08.13] There’s blues and there’s blues. While the contemporary blues world is dominated by virtuoso guitar slingers and jazzers who fall back on the genre due to a lack of material, there’s also a raft of … Continue reading
Album review: BETH HART & JOE BONAMASSA – Seesaw
Provogue [Release date: 20.05.13] One part rock chick and one part soul singer, ‘Seesaw’ finds Beth Hart settling in as an MOR interpretive singer with a nice lines in story telling. She’s both emotive and evocative on some well sourced … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Green, album review, Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin, beth Hart, Billy Holiday, blues, Etta James, funk, Janis Joplin, jazz, Joe Bonamassa, Kevin Shirley, Melody Margot, R&B, rock, soul, vocal
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B.B. KING BOX SET DUE 24TH SEP
B.B. KING Ladies and Gentlemen…. MR B.B. KING OUT 24TH SEPTEMBER 2012 ON UNIVERSAL In celebration of B.B. King’s 50th Anniversary signing to ABC-Paramount Records in 1962, comes this multi-format career retrospective, leading the way with a slick 10-CD, 194 … Continue reading
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Tagged B.B. King, blues, Bono, box set, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Robert Cray, Rolling Sto, U2
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