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Robert Hill and Joanne Lediger - Revelation

Robert Hill and Joanne Lediger - Revelation is full of ingenious updates to blues/gospel songs. Excellent playing and vocals adding depth

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – a wonderful album full of ingenious updates to blues/gospel songs both old and new. Excellent playing and soloing throughout with three fine vocalists adding depth, passion and emotion. Robert Hill and Joanne Lediger have been performing together for the last fifteen years although I apologetically have to say, they are new to me. That said, the fact Robert…

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Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado have Navigation Blues

Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado have Navigation Blues a wonderful and varied album that has power, subtlety, heartache and joy wrapped up in many brilliant musical layers. It isn’t as immediate as some of his albums but it is up there with his best.

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – a wonderful and varied album that has power, subtlety, heartache and joy wrapped up in many brilliant musical layers. It isn’t as immediate as some of his albums but it is up there with his best. In the introduction to my review of the Come On In album, I summed up this artist’s abilities with the following: “a composer with an inherent feel for complex and…

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Laura Tate does the Smokey Tango…on the water!

Laura Tate does the Smokey Tango…on the water! Blending a number of genres creating a strong album of selective covers

Bluesdoodles rating: 3 Doodle Paws for blues purists; 4 Doodle Paws if your tastes widen to include blues, jazz, soul and pop…those genres are seamlessly blended together as Laura delivers a very strong album of selective covers and adds her flair and vocal prowess to every one of them.- a wonderful album with a dozen tracks that explore Southern rock, blues, rock and country vibes. Shake The…

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Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown - Shake The Roots

Shake The Roots with Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown a wonderful album with a dozen tracks that explore Southern rock, blues, rock and country vibes. Shake The Roots is a collage of sounds that delight in capturing the energy of live music.

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – a wonderful album with a dozen tracks that explore Southern rock, blues, rock and country vibes. Shake The Roots is a collage of sounds that delight in capturing the energy of live music. Tyler Bryant and the ShakedownShake The Roots Out 9th September 2022Order the CD HERE The first single warmed the ears of Bluesdoodles as Tom listened and gave his thoughts…

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The Milkmen win a game of Spin The Bottle

The Milkmen win a game of Spin The Bottle a wonderful rock-based album that has ten songs, each packed with invention and talent than many other releases manage in a whole album.

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – a wonderful rock-based album that has ten songs, each packed with more invention and talent than many other releases manage in a whole album. The Milk Men are about to release their fourth album, Spin The Bottle, following their preview single, Cheap Seats about which I said:” With the hugely talented line up of Jamie Smy, Adam Norsworthy, Lloyd Green and…

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Breezy Rodio digs deep for Underground Blues

Breezy Rodio digs deep for Underground Blues a Wonderful high quality, high-value set of blues-based originals where his obvious love and understanding of our beloved genre shines through.

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – a Wonderful high quality, high-value set of blues-based originals where his obvious love and understanding of our beloved genre shines through. After four well-received blues albums, as well as being a key band member with Lindsey ‘Hootchie Man’ Alexander, Italian born, US based, bluesman Breezy Rodio has a new album out…called Underground Blues, it again…

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John Németh on how it May Be The Last Time

John Németh on how it May Be The Last Time, is an album of blues and soul that carries an extra poignancy knowing the circumstances. This May Be The Last Time…I fervently hope it’s not but, should it prove to be, it’s a remarkable swan-song. When John do

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – a wonderful album of blues and soul that carries an extra poignancy knowing the circumstances. This May Be The Last Time…I fervently hope it’s not but, should it prove to be, it’s a remarkable swan-song. When John does make his comeback, it presents a problem for him…top this one John! I feel sad yet privileged to listen to John Németh’s latest…

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Kirk Fletcher gives us Heartache By The Pound

Kirk Fletcher gives us Heartache By The Pound a wonderful blues, soulful album with scintillating guitar throughout in a set of songs built around melody and emotions rather than just frameworks for the guitar.

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – a wonderful blues, soulful album with scintillating guitar throughout in a set of songs built around melody and emotions rather than just frameworks for the guitar. When a blues guitarist achieves an accolade from none other than Joe Bonamassa who said of him, “Kirk is hands-down one of the best blues guitarists in the world” then you know you have to pay…

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Alex Lopez goes on record for his Nasty Crime

Alex Lopez goes on record for his Nasty Crime

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – a wonderful blues-based but varied album of song focussed tracks with other genres skilfully woven in. The guitar still features, but not at the expense of the narrative and supplies some sensitive and powerful playing. Born in Cleveland, now Florida based, guitarist Alex Lopez has just released his sixth album called Nasty Crime…of which he says:“the band…

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Troy Redfern is on fire again with Gasoline

Troy Redfern is on fire again with Gasoline the slide guitar summer anthem second single from the forthcoming album Wings of Salvation

After six albums in less than two years, you’d think Troy Redfern would be ready for a breather…but no; we’ve already had one taster from his next album due on September 23rd, which is called The Wings of Salvation. Now we have another tasty teaser…and it is a resonator-laden slice of heavy blues loveliness that promises a great deal for that new release. (It will have to be special (it will be)…

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Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown undiluted blues

Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown undiluted blues with a new single: Ain't None Watered Down from ‘Shake the Roots’ - Album out Sept 9th

Nashville blues rockers, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown have a new single: Ain’t None Watered Down is the grammatically tortured title that lets us know their quality is undimmed and the new album (title as yet unknown) will be something to look forward to when it sees the light on September 9th. I say that with some confidence as Tyler says this about the single and album to come:” So much was…

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Kings of Mercia wield the Wrecking Ball

Kings of Mercia wield the Wrecking Ball melodic rock single from the anticipated self-titled album out 23rd September

Any project that includes FM vocalist Steve Overland warrants attention…add in Jim Matheos of Fates Warning fame on guitar and it promises even more. Then bring in Fates Warning bassist Joey Vera and the legend that is Simon Philips on drums and it now demands attention. This is the lineup for a new band called Kings of Mercia. (I’m not sure how that name came about as Mercia is the swathe of…

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When Rivers Meet seen and heard on Live on Tour

When Rivers Meet seen and heard on Live on Tour a wonderful live album that captures a fabulous band at full throttle flying free.

The energy of Flying Free captured on CD and DVD When a band gives many reviewers cause to run out of superlatives on their first two albums, you know something special is happening. Grace and Aaron Bond released We Fly Free to great applause and backed it up with Saving Grace a year later to equal praise. In fact I said of the first: “a stupendous collection of original, varied and exquisite…

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Hillbilly Vegas Welcomes you

Hillbilly Vegas Welcomes you - for lovers of true southern rock this is a must-have and it promises much for the full-length album due in October.

Bluesdoodles rating: 4 Doodle Paws – for lovers of true southern rock this is a must-have and it promises much for the full-length album due in October. “Gonna tell you a story ‘bout a man named Ted, poor mountaineer but he kept his family fed and then one day he was shooting at some food, and up from the ground came a bubbling crude…oil that is Texas tea.” Oh, wrong Hillbillies: these are from…

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The Commoners drink deep on Fill My Cup

The Commoners drink deep on Fill My Cup first singe from new album Find a Better Way Out Friday 4th November

All the way from Toronto, The Commoners have a new single out: the first of three trailers for a new album due in November. Although they’ve been active for around ten years or so, this is the first time I’ve come across the combined talents of Chris Medhurst (vocals/guitar), Ben Spiller (bass), Ross Hayes Citrullo (lead guitar), and Adam Cannon (drums), often joined by their friend, organist…

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Jimmy Hall is Jumpin’ For Joy

Jimmy Hall is Jumpin’ For Joy - it’s a sort of blues, jump blues with a leaping country feel to boot. Great fun. The album Ready Now out 16th September

Most famous for his time in Wet Willie, Jimmy Hall is now set to release a new album on Joe Bonamassa’s KTBA Records called Ready Now. The album is due in September and features a stellar core band: Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith, keyboardist Reese Wynans, bassist Michael Rhodes and drummer Greg Morrow with special (and I mean special) guests Warren Haynes and Jared James Nichols. The lead single is…

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Sunjay is Built For Comfort on his new single

Sunjay is Built For Comfort on his new single from his forthcoming album Black & Blues - revisited - Catch him on tour across England

Out now is the teaser track for Sunjay’s new (his fourth) album, Black and Blue Revisited. This is not a remix but eleven new recordings of some tasty, traditional blues in his own inimitable fashion. The track in question is the great Willie Dixon’s Built For Comfort and sits nicely alongside other seminal blues songs like Statesboro Blues and Dust My Broom. Backing Sunjay’s vocal and guitar…

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