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From Joe Bonamassa and Shemekia Copeland to Keb’ Mo’, Gary Clark Jr., and Samantha Fish – discover the artists who carry the blues forward.
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Modern Blues – The Next Generation of the Blues
Looking for the blues as it lives and breathes today? Our Modern Blues section showcases today’s finest blues voices – keeping tradition alive...
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Looking for the blues as it lives and breathes today? Our Modern Blues section showcases today’s finest blues voices – keeping tradition alive with fresh sounds, powerful lyrics, and modern production.
Where roots meet innovation
From Joe Bonamassa and Shemekia Copeland to Keb’ Mo’, Gary Clark Jr., and Samantha Fish – discover the artists who carry the blues forward.
CDs, LPs & new classics in the making
Shop the sound of now – only at Bear Family Records, your home for timeless and contemporary blues.
(Sellam) 15 tracks After 35 years of touring around the world (USA, Canada, Japan, Latin America, Europe, India), and 28 years as leader of the group Awek, Bernard Sellam is happy to present his new formation: Bernard Sellam & The Boyz...
(Pepper Cake) 14 tracks Two of Canada's greatest blues artists come together for the first time on Zyx Music with a masterful tribute to legendary bluesman Elmore James. Wayne Nicholson, top blues rock singer, and John Campbelljohn,...
(Gulf Coast Records) 9 tracks, digipack. The Backtrack Blues Band was formed in 1980 in St. Petersburg, Florida and is one of the longest running blues bands in America. This energetic quintet plays Chicago style blues with Texas...
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(CrossCut Records) 15 tracks, digipack,with 20-page booklet. Individual, unique, contemporary, loud and stirring: Franck Goldwasser delivers another fine little masterpiece full of impressive guitar art and moving lyrics! Based in...
(Renaissance Records) 12 tracks Savoy Brown (originally Savoy Brown Blues Band) was an English blues rock band formed in Battersea, southwest London, in 1965. Savoy Brown belonged to the blues rock movement of the late 1960s and had...
(Repertoire) 42 tracks Deluxe two CD + NTSC,Region 0 DVD edition. Direct from French TV archives this is the first official CD,DVD release to document the giant of British blues on stage and in the television studio. · Charting his...
(MoMojo Records) 11 tracks, digisleeve Recorded, mixed and mastered in Memphis, Tennesse, Songs of Love, Money and Misery is the debut album by Brandon Santini. Eleven original tracks, all written or co-written by Santini, showcase his...
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1-CD with 2-page booklet, 6 tracks. Playing time approx. 38 mns. Superior guitar player, who toured with the Ford Blues Band, is out on his own now and performed at '96 Breminale fest here in town. He loves to play powerful rock with a...
(Tompkin Square) 8 tracks Harvey Mandel is among the most innovative guitarists to emerge from the Chicago blues scene of the late 1960s. He was a member of Canned Heat, appearing with them at Woodstock. Who's Calling is his 16th album...
(Vizz Tone) 12 tracks, digisleeve. This very special edition of Bob Corritore's "From The Vaults" series features great recordings by spectacular blues women from a wide geographic and stylistic spectrum. Featured female vocalists...
(Cherry Red Records) 52 tracks, digisleeve in slipcase. Although Bernie Marsden has had a long and varied career that includes stints with Wild Turkey, Cozy Powell's Hammer, Babe Ruth, UFO, Paice Ashton Lord, Alaska, and most notably as...
(2014/Nibelung) 8 tracks. Attractive cover in LP style , first edition strictly limited to 2000 pieces . Dave Anderson - bass, Mick Jones - drums, Tony McPhee - gtrs/voc.
(Straight Shooter) 12 tracks, digisleeve. Big Creek Slim is a bluesman as sure as the day is long. Don't believe it? Listen to that voice. Feel the passion and intensity he brings to the blues. Big Creek Slim's trademark is authentic...
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(Alligator) 11 tracks 2023 release. The Cash Box Kings return with another enthusiastic celebration of Chicago blues in all it's electric forms. Not content to merely pay homage to the past, they mix contemporary authority and old-school...
(Manhaton Records) 9 tracks, digisleeve. "United State Of Mind" is a fantastic new album that brings together three very different British music legends, Robin Trower, Maxi Priest and Livingstone Brown. Three artists with distinctive,...
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(Liberation Hall) 12 tracks For his new album, Zero-2-Sixty, Ellison wanted to take things to the extreme, delivering juke-joint rock blues that deepens the groove of his hit album There's Something About the Night. His searing guitar...
(Gulf Coast Records) 11 tracks digisleeve. Blues Music Award winners Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia of Gulf Coast Records have joined forces as "Blood Brothers," produced by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith and recorded at Dockside Studio in...
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(Sweetspot) 17 tracks, digisleeve - Eight-time Blues Music Award-nominated singer/songwriter/cornetist Al Basile celebrates 25 years with Sweetspot Records with the September 29 release of B's Time, a CD that gathers remixed and...
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(2021/Sweetspot) 13 tracks. 13 new songs by Al Basile, with the full band and horn backup he's used for years before the piano trio of his last release. As producer he's overseen a new and improved version of his perennial sound.
(Krudtmejer Productions) 12 tracks, digisleeve. A dusty and atmospheric blues project created by Irish singer/songwriter Richard Farrell and Danish producer/bassist Laust "Krudtmejer" Nielsen. Bringing together the fruits of blues,...
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(Straight Shooter) 13 tracks, digisleeve Marino Valle has been singing old school rhythm & blues and soul for 30 years with bands like Big Band Splash, Gugge Hedrenius Big Blues Band and The Soulmates. The Marino Valle Band was formed in...
A couple of years prior to this performance, she was the most promising up-and-coming blues performer of her generation. Great performance. SUSAN TEDESCHI - gtr/voc, JASON CROSBY - kbds/fiddle/voc, WILLIAM GREEN - B3, RON PERRY - bass,...
(2017/Big Guitar Music) 11 tracks The Mississippi Hoo Doo Man returns with the release you've been waiting for! Zoltar's Walk is played by the trio of Howlers in a collection of 11 original songs that possess the magic of Omar's early...