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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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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.
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(Random Chance) 12 tracks This is the third Random Chance Records album with Chicago-based blues bandleader Martin Lang. He has compiled an A-list of blues performers. It captures and updates the classic Chicago blues sound. .
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(Rip Cat) 12 Tracks - Ecopack - 12 page booklet with lyrics - From Southern California comes an original band that has a sound and style all its own. Rip Cat Records label release Orphan Jon 'Abandoned No More' featuring Bruce Krupnik is...
(Wounded Bird) 10 tracks In 1968 Mike Bloomfield left the Butterfield Blues Band to form The Electric Flag with Buddy Miles, Barry Goldberg & Nick Gravenites. This band broke up fairly quickly, but in 1974 the original members reunited...
Joe Bonamassa already is a household name in the blues community in the USA. Here in Europe he has a cult following, thanks to a few rare festival appearances. 'Blues Deluxe' (named after a great Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart tune that's...
(Stony Plain) 12 tracks, digisleeve When Maria Muldaur discovered the music of Tuba Skinny, she learned that they, like herself, study, play, and immerse themselves in the early blues, jazz, and jug band music of the '20s and '30s....
(BGO Records) 10 Tracks The album was recorded at the Regal Theater in Chicago on November 21, 1964. In a perfect way it announces the outstanding talents of B.B. King as a singer, guitarist and entertainer. The "Rolling Stone" placed it...
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(Saol Records) 11 tracks One of Ireland's finest guitarists / singer-songwriters returns with his seventh album! Eamonn McCormack is a wonderful singer, powerful storyteller, world class guitarist, brilliant song craftsman and unrivaled...
(Indigo) 29 tracks Fleetwood Mac made it big twice: firstly as the young kings of the British blues boom of the late 1960s - blues fanatics who nevertheless made it into the pop charts with a series of memorable songs penned by founder...
(Renaissance) 8 tracks Eric Burdon, one of rock and roll's most distinctive and soulful voices, is an accomplished painter, writer, composer, recording artist and traveling bluesman for over 50 years. As the driving force behind the...
(Straight Shooter) 12 tracks, digisleeve Certainly, 2020 was a year that most of us hope to forget, but never will. Big Creek Slim was in Brazil, "quarantined in one of the world's epicenters of the cvirus," he says, "with all the...
(Blind Rope) 9 tracks Some people think the blues is simple. But if you look at today's times of - again - rising racism, national extremism and exclusion, you will understand how topical the blues and Sir Oliver Mally's new album are....
(Straight Shooter) 12 tracks, digisleeve Otherworldly. That's an apt description for the music of Big Creek Slim. Big Creek lives in the 21st century, here with the rest of us, but his country blues comes from another place and time -...
(Whiskey Bayou Records 11 tracks. Eric Johanson's debut as a band leader. Produced by Tab Benoit. Eric Johanson - voc,gtr, Corey Duplechin - bass, Tab Benoit - drums, backing gtr. It's worth to give it your ear.
(BMG) 28 tracks, digibook with lyrics Album number 42, and then also a double album: Van Morrison is and remains one of the most release-friendly artists of our time. That the Northern Irish musician, singer and composer stands not only...
(Nonesuch Records) 11 tracks, digisleeve The Black Keys' tenth studio album, Delta Kream celebrates the band's roots and features eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards they loved as teenagers before they were a band, including...
Newly remixed and re-mastered recordings. When this album originally came out in 1980, it was splitting the interational blues scene with it's intensity and deep blues. Today, it sounds rather 'normal'. The CD was augmented by five...
Re-issue. Great performance, recorded in his own club on Chicago's southside. Re-mixed at a later date, the sound quality is alright. BUDDY GUY - gtr/voc, PHIL GUY - gtr, LITTE PHIL SMITH - gtr, J.W. WILLIAMS - bass, RAY ALLISON - drums.
(JSP Records) 14 tracks The classic 1985 studio album, remixed from the original session tapes plus bonus live tracks from the 1992 Tamines Blues Festival. "It was the mid-1980s and suddenly the London blues scene was invigorated by the...
(Awek) 15 tracks. The twelfth album 100% Awek without carbon emissions since it was produced near Toulouse. For the record, Awek had made his last CDs in the USA in only three or four days and with a lot of guests. This time the 2 guests...
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(1993 'Rudolphon') (46:22/16) This acoustic blues trio recorded some country blues tunes, and also their interpretation of city blues. Especially their harp player is a fine musician. Slide, dobro, harmonica, washboard, bass drum.
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CD #1 features the remaining members of the Hollywood Fats Band, plus guitarist Kirk Fletcher. Six new tracks with Kirk were recorded in 2006; the remaining sides featuring special guests like Kim Wilson or Junior Watson were recorded...
(Alligator) 12 tracks. Chris Cain has a worldwide reputation as one of the truly great blues guitarists of his generation, releasing critically acclaimed albums for over 30 years. The 2018 Blues Music Award winner for Best...
(Music On CD) 12 tracks 'Whatcha Gonna Do?' is the fourth solo album by Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green, the third in his middle period of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Considering this period of Peter Green's solo career, this is...