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.
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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.
(Styx) 19 tracks Eric Trauner with his 2021 production for Styx Records - downhome acoustic blues. Born 1958 in Vienna, self-taught. Founded the Mojo Bluesband in 1977. Intensive study of blues music, tours throughout Europe and the USA...
(Floating World Records) 15 tracks This inexpensive double CD is a concert recording by Johnny Winter for Boston radio station WBCN, and recorded at the Boston Music Hall, in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 26, 1977. By 1975, Winter...
(earMusic) 9 tracks. Robben Ford, a name that needs no explanation. For over 40 years now, the guitarist inspires artists and fans of blues rock and truly shaped the genre with his innovative playing. With both parents being passionate...
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(Highway 20) 11 tracks. 'Blow' is Colin Linden's fourteenth solo album, coming forty years after the first, Colin Linden Live. It is also his first electric blues album. 'Blow' will get you on the dance floor or increase your speed on...
(UMC) 28 tracks Rory Gallagher's eponymous debut solo album turns 50 in 2021. Universal is celebrating this special anniversary with three different 50th Anniversary Editions - on double CD, three LPs and as a deluxe box set with four...
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last copies Now, is this blues, or is it jazz? Whatsoever, it's exciting music. His influences are obvious, T-Bone, John Scofield, Django, Wes, with an extra dose of Hendrix. Regarding the music, New Orleans comes to my mind. Denny...
(2016/Universal) 12 tracks. Digipak! We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. With 'Blue And Lonesome', the first studio album of the Rolling Stones has been available for eleven years. It is the successor to 'A Bigger Bang'...
(Gulf Coast Records) 11 tracks digisleeve With numerous blues music awards already under his belt, Mike Zito provides a remedy for ravenous ears as he unleashes 11 of his most exquisite blues, rock, and soul treasures. The highly...
(Styx Records) 20 Tracks, Digipack Peter Müller has compiled 20 songs from his entire career on "Pick Up Styx". Included, of course, those with, among others, the Mojo Blues Band, Axel Zwingenberger, Andreas Sobczyk and many others.
(Sireena Records) 10 Tracks, Digisleeve Founded in the late seventies as a cover band by guitarist THOMAS HESSE and the later ZOFF singer REINER HÄNSCH, the PEE WEE BLUESGANG has been one of the leading blues rock formations of German...
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(Ear Music) 12 tracks, digisleeve This album has everything a good rock album needs. Listening to this album, you might wonder why Simon McBride wasn't elevated to the guitarist Olympus 10 years ago. But maybe this new album was exactly...
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(Self Published) 10 Tracks, Digisleeve Finally a breath of fresh air on the blues and roots scene! Three renowned blues musicians have joined forces to present a stylish, swinging and jazzy trio - It Takes Three. It Takes Three serve up...
(1993 'King Records') (59:06/10) Japanische Produktion, in Chicago eingespielt: eine Granate! Er ist der ungekrönte König aller ausgeflippten Harpvirtuosen. 'High energy' auf einem unglaublich hohen Niveau. Modern, funky, kingt gut,...
(MIG - Made in Germany) 48 tracks (CD/DVD), DVD9 / NTSC, PCM Stereo, Region Code: 0, FSK: 0 Peter Finger - WDR Studio L, Germany Werner Lämmmerhirt - WDR Studio L, Germany Martin Kolbe & Ralf Illenberger- WDR Studio L, Germany Some...
(Universal Music) 15 Tracks - Digipack - View into the Blues Archive Rory Gallagher belongs to the absolute legends of Blues and Buesrock. With ''Blues'', a new album by the late Irish guitarist and singer-songwriter is released in 2019...
(Gulf Coast Records) 11 tracks, digisleeve The 11 original songs on "Relish" were produced by Mike Zito and feature both Kalz and his regular band, augmented by special guests, including Zito himself. The lineup includes: Dave Kalz -...
(Deadline Music / Cleopatra) 13 tracks, digipack. Cleopatra reissues a Savoy Brown album originally released in 1994 in a CD digipack, with new cover artwork and remastering: Credited at the time to the band and its historic leader and...
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(MIG - Made In Germany) 8 tracks, digisleeve, Live at "Die Schauburg" in bremen October 25th, 1982 With the Groundhogs Tony McPhee wrote British blues rock history from the 1960s on. Together with Neil Young he is one of the founding...
(Quatro Valley Records) 11 tracks, digisleeve Active since 1998, Florida-born American blues rocker, Americana and country rock musician Sean Chambers will release his eighth album in 2021. "That's What I'm Talkin About" is the follow-up...
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(Blue Heart Records) 10 tracks - digisleeve For his fifth career release, Stone has made a significant departure from the full-band electric blues tradition and embraced the raw synergy of an acoustic trio. Born out of a musical...
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(Fantasy) 14 tracks Two CDs. Layla Revisited (Live at LOCKN') captures Tedeschi Trucks Band at their incendiary best, together with Phish's renowned guitarist vocalist Trey Anastasio. Recorded August 24, 2019, the performance of the...