
Curtis Salgado and Alan Hager
Rough Cut
Alligator Records
With the release of Rough Cut, the world is for the first time hearing what those of us in Portland have known for many years, Curtis Salgado and Alan Hager are a natural fit for acoustic blues. The two have been…

The Eric Hughes Band
Meet Me In Memphis
Self-Produced
The Eric Hughes Band are long time veterans of the Memphis blues scene and you can find them most any night playing on Beale Street, but they are much more than just another blues band. On their newest release,…

RL Boyce
Roll And Tumble
Waxploitation Records
A native of Como, Mississippi — deep in the heart of the Mississippi Hill Country, RL Boyce is no stranger to the sounds of the blues. He began performing music at a young age playing in the fife and drum…

Sweet Pea Atkinson
Get What You Deserve
Blue Note Records
Hillard “Sweet Pea” Atkinson was the former vocalist with the 80s-90s band Was (Not Was) and more recently with The Boneshakers, he has also collaborated with the likes of Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie…

Isaac Scott
Isaac Scott Live ’83-‘84
Bluestown
It has been a little more than sixteen years since Isaac Scott passed away in November 2001 at the age of 56. The Northwest icon long held a prominent position as one of the absolute best bluesmen of the…

Jimmie Bratcher
This Is Blues Country
Ain’t Skeert Tunes
The Reverend Jimmie Bratcher is back with a new recording and a new idea. The Kansas City-based bluesman has reached back into his younger days, growing up in a household filled with the sounds of classic…

Stanton Moore
With You In Mind: The Songs Of Allen Toussaint
Cool Green recordings
This is a nicely done tribute of Allen Toussaint. Stanton Moore is an established drummer on the New Orleans music scene and he is partnered up with two of the city’s best-loved…

Chris Daniels and The Kings
Blues With Horns Vol. 1
Moon Voyage Records
Chris Daniels and the Kings have been a Denver-area mainstay for the past thirty-three years, with fifteen recordings under their belt and have performed throughout the United States and into Europe.…

Sonny Rhodes
The Essential Sonny Rhodes: Songs & Stories
Need To Know Music
Clarence Smith, better known to the world as Sonny Rhodes, is part of that long rich line of superior blues guitarists originating from Texas. With a career ranging for more…

King Louie’s Blues Revue
Live At Riverhouse Jazz
Shoug Records
When jazz promoter Marshall Glickman began bringing King Louie’s Blues Revue to Bend for the Jazz at the Oxford series he never felt that the act would become so popular that he’d be booking the performance…