Tag: blues
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Today Inglorious have released their new video for “Holy Water,” a swampy blues track from their self-titled debut released back in February via Frontiers Music. (Read our interview with frontman Nathan James here: https://loveispop.com/interviews/an-exclusive-interview-with-nathan-james-of-inglorious/) It’s the sort of wicked song you used to have to go to a crossroads and sell your soul to the…
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I recently fell madly in love with an album called A River’s Invitation by The California Honeydrops. A band whose members play half the instruments under the sun, who call the Bay Area of San Francisco home, they blend everything from old jazz and pre-blues with New Orleans funk and classic R&B. In other words,…
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Delta Deep was originally started as an “extreme” blues project by Def Leppard’s Phil Collen in 2012. Today the band’s sound is more like one part rock, one part soul and two parts blues. In addition to Collen, the band features Stone Temple Pilots’ bassist Robert DeLeo, The Crusaders’ drummer Forrest Robinson and Michael Buble/Luther…
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by Joshua Day On Thursday, May 14th the blues world lost a legendary iconic talent. Riley B. King ( b. September 16th, 1925 in Itta Benna, Mississippi ) was better known as B.B. King, He was born on a plantation to sharecroppers, and worked at this job from the very early age of 14. After…
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Ben Ottewell, vocalist and lead guitarist of Brit rock band Gomez, continues to submerge himself in the deep end of the blues on his second solo release, Rattlebag, which follows his first solo album Shapes & Shadows (2011). “Your prayers won’t raise me from this web,” Ottewell sings during the title track, “Rattlebag,” which opens…
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I’d like to say that I discovered Caught A Ghost through my own music hunting efforts, that there’s some cool backstory about how I came to be aware of their existence. But the truth is simple and probably not very interesting: their publicist contacted me, asked me to review their upcoming show opening for Youngblood…
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On June 3rd, The End Records will unleash Rich Robinson‘s third full-length studio album The Ceaseless Sight. We’ve already heard it and we’re totally digging it. It’s got a lovely, earthly sound to it. Super organic and raw, yet also very, very well-produced. Rich’s vocals are soulful but almost sound country-flavored at times, which can…
