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.
(2016/Ruf) 11 tracks. Thorbjoern Risager 'Change My Game', the eleventh album, not just an album title, but a sign of how the band has developed since 2006. Dynamic arrangement, electrifying vocals - an album that breaks down the...
(2016/Rounder) 12 Tracks - Ain't it unusual to name an album after a song titled 'Porcupine Meat'? Well, Bobby Rush can! He has earned his first gold record in 1971! The hit is called 'Chicken Heads'! This new album 'Porcupine Meat' is...
(2015/Out Of The Past) 10 tracks - digipac. Steve Howell & The Mighty Men are back with their 2015 release, Friend Like Me. As eclectic as usual, they offer up interpretations of time worn tunes from the ArkLaTex region and the...
(2016/Continental Record Services) 11 Tracks - Digipack - Little Steve & the Big Beat are a high-energy Rhythm & Blues outfit! Fiery guitar playing and strong vocals on top of a solid rhythm section while the horns add a groove that will...
(2016/Blues Mountain Records) 13 Tracks - Digipack - California Rhythm & Blues! Big Harp George is George Bisharat is a San Francisco Bay Area Rhythm'n'Blues singer and harmonica player who features the chromatic harmonica. George is a...
(2016/Coast To Coast) 11 Tracks - Fantastic live concert show of the Big Pete Blues Band around the famous Dutch singer and guitarist Pieter 'Big Pete' van der Pluijm! Groovy and powerful Blues Rock!
(2016/Ruf Records) 58 Tracks - The 'Blue Sisters' live!
12 years of 'Blues Caravan' shows in 2016 three Queens on the road: The Canadian singer Layla Zoe, Ina Forsman from Finland and Tasha Taylor from the U.S., the youngest daughter of...
(2016/Provogue) 12 Tracks - Digipack - 16 page booklet with photos and all lyrics! Her 2016 album is a breathtaking adventure through Blues, Jazz with swinging sounds, groovy Soul and rockin' roots music! Fantastic stuff!
(2016/Ear Music) 13 Tracks - Digipack - ‘The Lost in Paris Blues Band’ is the unbelievable encounter of open-minded and free-minded musicians able to gather in a legendary studio in Paris for this fun and unexpected session. I spent...
(2016/Sireena) 21 Tracks - Digipack - For almost 40 years now, Nine Below Zero have been providing Blues-enthusiasts around the whole world with their amazing music. But this is not the only reason for the fact that this band has one of...
(2016/Flood Plane) 9 tracks. Great live CD by Holly Hyatt & Jon Burden. Cover as well as own songs. You should listen to Holly Hyatt - voc, bass guitar, electric bass, Jon Burden - voc, acoustic gtr, slide gtr, electric gtr, Marvin...
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(2016/HEC) 10 Tracks - Shaky's brand new 2016 release - Collectors Special Edition, Casebound 24 page book!
This album has grown from Shaky’s realisation that, like most of us, he knew so very little about the background of his family -...
(2016/HEC) 10 Tracks - Digipack - Shaky's brand new 2016 release! This album has grown from Shaky’s realisation that, like most of us, he knew so very little about the background of his family - the stories of his ancestors’ loves and...
(2016/True North) 13 tracks. Re-issue of his CD from 2006. In 1993 he recorded his first 'Little Big Band' album, followed by Vol.2 in 1998. Colin's continuing the series with this fine set of r&b favorites, recorded with some of the...
(2016/Fantasy) 12 tracks. The second album of the just 20-year-old Marcus King and his band. A total of 13 songs by Marcus King and his fellow musicians, drummer and percussionist Jack Ryan, bassist Stephen Campbell, keyboardist and...
(2015/Evil Teen) 12 tracks. Call him the next Duane Allman or Derek Trucks, but whatever you do, don't call Marcus King a child prodigy. Sure, the 19-year-old guitar shredder's talent shimmers with the same resonance as his heroes, but...
(2015/Cherry Red) 11 tracks. The American soul queen Bettye LaVette is looking back on more than 50 years of musical career, and there's no end in sight. After the two Grammy-nominated albums 'The Scene Of The Crime' (2007) and...
(2016/Rip Cat) 16 tracks. The Rockin' Rebels are playing traditional American music from jump swing sound of the west coast to rockin Texas blues, New Orleans jazz, Memphis rockabilly and down home Nashville bluegrass fore more than 36...
(2016/Kirkelig Kulturversted) 11 tracks. In June 2015, the American blues and souls singer Mighty Sam McClain died with 72 years of stroke. In addition to Solomon Burke and Percy Sledge, the powerful, multi-Grammy-nominated artist was...
(2016/Yester Year Records) 10 tracks. The third release of Kurt Crandall. Chicago blues, West Coast swing and Kansas City jump. Extraordinary. Give it your ear!
Kurt Crandall - voc,hca, Karl Angerer - gtr, Bill Heid - pno,org, Johnny...