Tag: rock

Big Head Blues Club

100 Years of Robert Johnson

Ryko/Big

Big Head Blues Club is an incarnation of Colorado rock group Big Head Todd and the Monsters, augmented by Cedric Burnside and/or Lightnin’ Malcolm on five tracks, plus special guests Charlie Musselwhite, Hubert Sumlin, Ruthie Foster, B.B. King and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. The album was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and produced by Chris Goldsmith.

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Michael Chapman

Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010

Tompkins Square

In an online work-in-progress documentary about him, British folk “outsider” Chapman lists his early influences as Big Bill Broonzy, Django Reinhardt and jazz organist Jimmy Smith, the latter because “he’s like a self-contained bass player, and I try to do that on the guitar.”

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Todd Sharpville

Porchlight

MIG

Snooty blues-rock? That’s what some might wonder upon discovering guitarist/singer/songwriter Sharpville is a titled member of one of the U.K.’s oldest aristocratic families, descending from royal lineage.

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Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks

Crazy for Christmas

Surfdog

Dan Hicks has had his second wind for 10 years now, after going on a 25-year recording hiatus with the exception of 1994’s live “Shootin’ Straight.” His 2000 comeback, “Beatin’ the Heat,” featured several big-name guests and was well-received, as were 2001’s “Alive and Lickin’,” 2004’s “Selected Shorts” and 2009’s “Tangled Tales.”

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7 Walkers

7 Walkers

Response

Lyricist Robert Hunter has been pretty busy lately. Last year saw the release of albums written with Bob Dylan (“Together Through Life”) and New Riders of the Purple Sage (“Where I Come From”) plus a song with Bruce Hornsby for Hornsby’s “Levitate” (“Cyclone”). This year saw the onetime Grateful Dead scribe’s second Jim Lauderdale collaboration (“Patchwork River”); a song with Cesar Rosas on Los Lobos’ “Tin Can Trust” (“All My Bridges Burning”); and this album, a project with Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and guitarist/singer Papa Mali (aka Malcolm Welbourne).

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