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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.
(1992 'Double Trouble') (39:51/13) Great jump blues, nice debut, well recorded traditional Texas style guitar album. With the exception of one song, this CD is the same as 'Texas Blues Revue' on the out-of-business Cannonball Records...
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(2016/The Sirens) 14 tracks. As these recordings prove, Helfer's octogenarian status has not slowed him down a bit, he's still tickling the ivories with the same verve that he's done throughout his career. On one track, Helfer is joined...
(2016/Stony Plain) 47 tracks. One of the most fascinating and most successful blues and roots label world celebrates its 40th anniversary. Congratulation!
A very nice overview of the publications of the label, plus on CD 3 rarities and...
(2016/Underworld) 10 tracks. Sammy Eubanks with his first CD on Underworld Records. He has won the 'Best Male Vocalist' award 10 times in the state of Washington. From East to West he is widely regarded as 'The Voice'. He and the band...
(2016/Ruf Records) 10 tracks. Here is Laurence Jomes 4th CD, produced by Mike Vernon! Recorded in February 2016 in the Headline Music Studios in Cambum with Laurence 'band with Roger Inniss on bass, Phil Wilson on drums and Bob Fridzema...
(2016/Vizztone) 13 tracks. It took four years of waiting, but here it is: the new CD (2016) of blues harp player Dennis Gruenling. Dennis Gruenling - voc, hca, Doug Deming - gtr, Andrew Goldman - bass, Michael Bram - drums, perc,...
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(2016/Yep Roc) 11 tracks. Eli Paperboy Reed has returned to the studio and craft-ed a new album that is at once back-to-basics and startlingly current. Album opener 'Hold Out' kicks things off at full-volume, embodying the classic gospel...
Performing around the L.A. area during the late '60s. Lonnie Jordan (keyboards), Howard Scott (guitar), B.B. Dickerson (bass). Harold Brown (drums). Charles Miller (saxophone), and Papa Dee Allen (percussion) were members of The...
(1992/Avenue-Rhino) 5 tracks 1970 - This is the original sealed first CD pressing on the Avenue/Rhino Label from 1992! Performing around the L.A. area during the late '60s. Lonnie Jordan (keyboards), Howard Scott (guitar), B.B. Dickerson...
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(2016/Delmark) 10 tracks. 'We like our blues with a dose of funk, soul and all other kind of stuff', says Omar Coleman. Eventually these supposedly separate genres run into each other especially with the new generation of blues artists...
(2009/Angel Air) 12 Tracks (40:15) - Studio album. Rock, recorded in London. DENNIS GREAVES ' voc/gtr, MARK FELTHAM ' hca, GERRY McAVOY ' bass, BRENDAN O'NEILL ' drums.
(2016/Abstract Logix) 10 tracks. Internationally acclaimed guitarist and composer Oz Noy follows his provocative two-volume exploration and reinvention of his blues roots (Twisted Blues) with Who Gives a Funk - a examination of classic...
(2012/Repertoire) 17 Tracks (61:42) Digipack with 16-page booklet. Reissue of the original 1980 Arista debut album by The Blues Band. Their finest album so far! Includes 5 bonus tracks!
(2016/Big Shed) 12 tracks. 2016 release from Paul Lamb - country blues by one of the best harp player of Great Britain. Paul Lamb - hca,voc, Chad Strentz - voc,gtr, Ryan Lamb - gtr, Dino Coccia - perc, Rod Demick - bass,voc, Paula...
(2011/Floating World) 16 tracks Rather unusual blues sounds and grooves. Garage sound, but excellent production. Sadly enough Lester, ex-member of the Red Devils, died in '98. Check-it out! LESTER BUTLER - hca/voc, ALEX SCHULTZ & SMOKEY...
(2015/Echoes) 12 Tracks - Stevie Ray Vaughan's guest slot for Robert Plant on the Non Stop Go tour was not at all representative of his worth in terms of bill position, or a true reflection of his talent, but was ultimately prestigious...
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(2015/Bob Seeley Music) 12 tracks. This is the third of a series of recordings from one of the world's premier boogie piano players, Bob Seeley. An inductee to the Boogie Woogie Hall of Fame in Cincinnati, Ohio USA, Bob is a...
(2014/Wide Tracks Recordings) 10 tracks. Third CD of the Los Angeles-based band who play blues-roots-rock music. The 44's are one the brightest rising stars on the American blues roots scene. Great stuff. Johnny Main - gtr/voc, 'Shady'...
(2016/Underworld) 16 tracks. Jim Suhler ranks among the best of Texas guitar slinger lineage with the likes of Johnny Winter, Billy Gibbons and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jim Suhler also spends his spare time as a member of George Thorogood's...
(2016/Jasmine) 44 tracks. Collected across this 44 track 2 CD set are examples of his dynamic guitar contributions to a bevy of national, regional and downright parochial recording artists including Dale Hawkins, Bob Luman, Freddy...
(2016/Forty Below) 13 tracks. Live archive release. In 1967, before there was a Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood were John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. The four musicians were only together for three months, which...