SoulSlide
Lounge Side
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Jeff Plankenhorn, aka Plank, plays “The Plank” — a self-designed, resonator-shaped, full-bodied electric guitar played lap-steel style while standing up.
Tag: blues
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Jeff Healey
Heal My Soul
Provogue
This month marks the eighth anniversary of Jeff Healey’s death from cancer but also sees his first new blues-rock studio album in more than 15 years — released on what would have been his 50th birthday (March 25).
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Supersonic Blues Machine
West of Flushing, South of Frisco
Provogue
On the heels of Van Wilks’ outstanding new album comes another ass-kicking release of blues-rock.
Reviews
Van Wilks
21st Century Blues
Texas ’51
Van Wilks’ first new studio album in 10 years is a solid set of blues-rock boasting some of the finest guitar tone ever put on wax, easily holding a candle to efforts by more-recognizable names such as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Joe Bonamassa.
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Circles Around the Sun
Interludes for the Dead
Rhino
Looks like Jazz Is Dead finally has some competition in the subgenre of “instrumental interpretations of Grateful Dead songs” — sort of.
