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.
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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.
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2017 (Überseeproduktion) 17 tracks. Lutz Drenkwitz - Countrybluespunkrock with German lyrics. One man band playing drums, bass, gtr, hca.
Give him your ear!
(2017/Cavalier) 9 tracks. . Feelin' Alive is a live CD that features a renewed band in top form. Without doubt the best Julian Sas band so far and consequently Feelin' Alive is his best live record so far. In his genre is Julian Sas of...
(2017/In-akustik) 11 tracks. 'Fantasizing About Being Black' - The name of the new album by trance Blues legend Otis Taylor informs what you can expect. Otis Taylor tells about the historical trauma of the African Americans, starting...
(2017/Vizztone) 14 tracks. Adrianna Marie and her Roomful of All-Stars transport you to a posh club complete with smoky blues, driving riffs, and gleaming jazz. She was born to sing this music and is every bit as sultry, sassy, and smart...
(2017/Edgewater) 10 tracks. Born from the intuition of former Berklee College of Music students, and the minds of back yard bull shitters alike, they are The Drugstore Gypsies. They play a unique blend of southern rock and roll, country...
(Family Owned Records) 11 tracks. Southern Indiana-bred singer-guitarist Reverend Peyton is the bigger-than-life frontman of Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. He has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and a...
(2017/Ruf) 14 tracks. Samantha Fish goes all in with her fourth Ruf Records release delivering a heavy dose of Chills & Fever. Recorded deep in America's Rust Belt in Detroit the city that has filled America's musical tapestry with it's...
(2017/Forty Below) 11 tracks.
At the age of 82, John Mayall presents his 2017 album 'Talk About That'. Eleven songs, eight Mayall originals and the three blues classics. His band: guitarist Rocky Athas, bassist Greg Rzab and drummer Jay...
(2017/Sony) 12 tracks. Pedal-steel virtuoso Robert Randolph returns with Got Soul. The album reaffirms that Randolph and his Family Band have truly evolved into one of the most exciting and innovative outfits in contemporary music. Got...
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(2016/Universal) 12 tracks. 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' of 2005....
(2017/Delmark) 17 tracks. From sharing the Apollo Theater stage with Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons and others to backing Beyoncé Knowles at Barack Obama's Neighborhood Inaugural Ball and on her Grammy winning single from...
(2016/Blue Mood) 10 Tracks - HEIGH CHIEF. won Notodden Union Blues Cup in 2013, despite heavy competition from bands from all over the country. With tremendous enthusiasm and intensity in their playing, Marcus Løvdal Band shows great...
(2017/Alive Natural Sound) 9 Tracks - Digipack - Perfect roots music album of the ex-street musician! Roots Rock combined with Blues, the best musical soundtrack for long road trips! MM/Bear Family Records
(1992-98 'Styx Records') (135:18/34) Erstmals veröffentlichte Aufnahmen, die im Verlauf der letzten Jahre mit einer langen Liste illustrer Gäste 'live' und im Studio in Wien, Chicago und Florence, South Carolina entstanden. Ein...
(Electro-Fi) 13 Tracks - Blues Harp Legend JAMES HARMAN hit no. 1 on the Living Blues Radio Charts with his Electro-Fi debut disc “Bonetime” back in 2015, not to mention 5 BMA nominations including “Album of the Year”. Now James is back...
(2015/Electro-Fi) Blues Legend James Harman returns with his Electro-Fi Records debut, Bonetime his first new Studio release in 12 years. It's been worth the wait as James lays down his patented vocal and harmonica work on a dozen new...
(2015/V2) 12 tracks A great mix of alt-rock, classic punk, garage rock, rhythm & blues and rock & roll is reminiscent of The Black Keys and The Strypes but also influences from 60's, 70's Stones, The Stooges and Dr Feelgood are clearly...
(2017/Alligator) 12 tracks. Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio is an exciting new project from one of the most recognized and beloved roots music figures in the world. A blues and Southern Rock legend, as well as a 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of...
(2017/Provogue) 11 Tracks - Digipack - If you’ve ever been a fan of blues-influenced rock from the likes of Kings Of Leon, Jack White, The Black Crowes or Lynyrd Skynyrd, then you’ll appreciate the impressively talented Aaron Keylock....
(2016/SSR Freeroll) 10 tracks. Blues, R&B and Soul from all the greatest traditions blend for an album that will prove a pure delight for fans of the classic soul sounds, regardless of whether we are speaking of Motown, Stax,Volt, Muscle...