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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.
(2017/Songs Of The South/Legacy) 12 tracks Eighth studio album from the southern rock-blues band. Founded in 1996, North Mississippi Allstars is composed of two brothers, Luther Dickinson (guitar, lowebow, vocals) and Cody Dickinson...
(Peter Parcek) 11 tracks Recorded in Boston & Nashville Mississippi Suitcase features eleven tracks of what he believes to be his best work to date. Produced by Grammy Award winner Ducky Carlisle (Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi). Musicians on...
(2017/West Tone) 16 tracks. Neoprene Fedora chronicles Rockin’ Johnny Burgin’s move to California from Chicago. This time around he’s written 11 songs from surf to zydeco to gut-bucket blues to plain old party! The combination of his...
(2017/West Tone Records) 14 tracks. Wonderful tribute to Howlin' Wolf with some of the best Norhtern California artists working today. Rockin Johnny Burgin, Kid Andersen, Aki Kumar & Rick Estrin, Wolf's piano player Henry Gray and...
(West Tone Records) 15 tracks. Recorded in Chicago in the summer of 2016. Feat.: Mary Lane Little Jerry Jones Milwaukee Slim Rockin' Johnny Burgin Mike Metallia Illinois Slim Jeff La Bon John Sefner Steve Dougherty
(Layla Zoe ) 10 tracks Facing an unparalleled year of struggle and turmoil, award-winning Canadian singer Layla Zoe was not ready to give up in the career she has dedicated herself to for the past twenty years. Layla brought together...
(Meyer Records) 11 tracks digipack, recorded live at "Theater Der Keller", Cologne, February 22nd & 23rd 2010. The live album for the 40th stage anniversary of Richard Bargel! "One wonders how this is supposed to go together: Here a...
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(Meyer Records) 12 tracks, Recorded at the recording studio Feder and live at the jazz club ' Altes Pfandhaus ' , Cologne, Germany 2013. Special appearance: Charlie Musselwhite, Freddy Koella. After the departure of "Men In Blues" with...
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(Meyer Records) 10 tracks, digipack The Cologne artist with the dark voice and the proven talent to write exciting blues surprises us with a new little masterpiece. He has a flair for intensity and the most economical musical...
(CBH) 13 tracks Powerful, heavy & bluesy ! People say it's the toughest sounding band around. The band with the original, reckless sound hails from New Orleans, LA. Johnny leads the ensemble and has racked up 13 records, countless...
(Rhino) 43 tracks, digisleeve. This new collection captures nearly four hours of highlights recorded last year at the acclaimed benefit music festival created by the legendary guitarist. Eric Clapton, one of the world's preeminent...
(Nonesuch Records) 18 tracks , digisleeve "Brothers," originally released May 18, 2010, was recorded mostly at the famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. It was a career breakthrough for The Black Keys, garnering critical praise...
(Universal Music) 36 Tracks - Digipack in a slipcase - 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...
(in-akustik) 14 Tracks 'Take The Stage' was recorded at the Bowers & Wilkins 'Rhythm'n'Blues Festival'" in Halle, East Westphalia. At the start was the XXL line-up of the Osnabrück formation around bandleader Todor 'Tosho' Todorovic.
(Stony Plain) 10 tracks. Duke Robillard has defined himself as not merely a great artist, but also a true historian, scholar and curator who is adept at electric and acoustic blues, jazz, jump, swing, ballads and standards....
(VizzTone) 10 tracks, digipack "Meet me in the Middle" is the fourth VizzTone release from the fingerstyle guitarist and Singer Erin Harpe, who was recently named New England Blues Artist of the Year 2019. After a trio of successful...
(CBH) 11 tracks. Kai Strauss has been a well-known name among European Blues lovers since the early nineties. Now, at the age of 50, the guitar player and singer releases his sixth album on the Dutch CRS label – aptly titled 'In My...
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Burrell Band is a full time, hardworking traveling blues band, known for their
high-energy electric blues. Onstage and on record, they play 100% original...
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(Made In Germany) 33 tracks. The British blues rock institution Nine Below Zero has been a guest at 'Rockpalast' twice. On 19.08.1981 they played at the 'Test Concert' for the '1st Rockpalast Open-Air Festival' on the Loreley Rock in St....
(SWMAF) 12 tracks Kid Ramos & Bob Corritore's Phoenix Blues Sessions is Volume 2 in Corritore's exciting 'From the Vaults' series, which includes previously unreleased gems from his vast master band archives. Guitarist Kid Ramos and...