ATO
The North Mississippi Allstars have three fine albums of deliciously adulterated blues to their credit (four if you count their one-off 2001 project with John Medeski and Robert Randolph, an instrumental blues-gospel group called The Word). But those are all studio albums, and anybody lucky enough to score one of their shows online from sites such as bt.etree.org knows that these guys are even better live.
Funzalo Records
Discovering Tony Furtado is like finding out about one of your guitar heroes’ obscure influences — someone you’ve never heard of who’s been around for a while and plays to beat the devil.
Premier Artists
It was only a matter of time until upstate New York child prodigy guitarist Joe Bonamassa came into his own. Having explored everything from blues to boogie to Southern rock to jazz — and all between the ages of 4 and 27 — he’s back to the blues again. It’s safe to say he’s now graduated life’s university of music and is ready to pursue a Ph.D. in string wizardry.
Deep Rush
Someone finally did it.
They created a band with two slide guitarists. But unlike double-lead-guitar groups such as the Allmans, Skynyrd or the Outlaws, Delta Moon doesn’t employ the note-for-note unison technique. The sliders play their notes in between each other’s, creating a strange polyrhythm with a unique effect on the central nervous system. Occasionally, they’ll cross paths, and that’s when the fun begins.
Handsome Productions
All right, punk. You better get over here and listen to this reunion album by the notorious Backdoor Men. What’s that? You never heard of ’em? Where you been, livin’ under a rock or somethin’?
