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Album review: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD – Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues

Alligator Records [Release date 27.03.26] Selwyn Birchwood’s ‘Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues’ is everything you want from a contemporary blues album. It’s a well crafted, emotively sung and self produced masterpiece from a young blues artist who explores deeply felt, socially … Continue reading
Album review: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD – Exorcist

Alligator Records [Release date: 08.06.23] Selwyn Birchwood is the epitome of a young contemporary blues contender who has learned his chops in the old school way through touring. He’s nurtured his tone, honed his vocal phrasing and he’s worked on his … Continue reading
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Tagged album, B.B. King, blues, Byron Garner, Ed Krout, Exorcist, Frank Zappa, funk, fusion, Jim McKaba, reggae, Regi Oliver, review, Selwyn Birchwood, soul, The Blues Brothers
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Album review: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD – Pick Your Poison

Alligator [Release date: 19.05.17] Mentored by Sonny Rhodes and now some 7 years into his own solo career, Selwyn Birchwood’s second album ‘Pick Your Poison’ is a celebration of everything that makes him a unique presence on a blues circuit … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alligator, blues, Courtney “Big Love” Girlie, funk, gospel, guitar, Huff Wright, Pick Your Poison, Regi Oliver, review, Selwyn Birchwood, Sonny Rhodes, soul
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Gig review: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD, JAMES LEG, THE LIMBOOS, ELLI de MON – Relache Festival, Bordeaux, 12 July 2016

Bordeaux’s Relache Festival has quickly carved an important niche on the Euro Summer Blues Festival circuit. It’s an annual umbrella for two months worth of rock/blues/soul and related music in different parts of the city. Tonight we’re treated to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Diamond Heavies, blues, boogie, Dani Niño, Elli de Mon, gig, Howlin Wolf, James Leg, Jim Morrison, John Wesley Myers, Keith Emerson, Latino, mambo, May Gaz, R&B, Ray Manzarek, Regi Oliver, Relache Festival, review, Roi Fontoira, Selwyn Birchwood, THE DOORS, The Limboos, The Nice, Tom Waits, trash blues
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