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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.
(Gypsy Soul) 11 tracks, digisleeve Bywater Call are ready to release their long awaited second album 'Remain'. This album is for fans of roots/blues rock bands like the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Marcus King, Beth Hart and others.
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(BMG) 13 tracks, digisleeve - Gary Moore rocked the world of blues and rock with his virtuoso guitar playing and soulful voice. Moore played in numerous legendary bands, including Thin Lizzy and Skid Row, and in addition to his solo...
(Provogue) 8 tracks. A collection of previously unreleased songs from Gary's substantial body of outstanding work in his back catalogue. The album contains 4 originals, and 4 songs previously recorded and made famous by classic bluesmen...
(Provogue) 12 tracks, digipack War In My Mind She's back. Just one year after her Kollabo album with Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart presents her new solo album in 2019. War In My Mind is the 13th studio record of the American singer, musician...
(Mascot Music) 33 tracks, CD + Blu-ray disc in slipcase 14 live albums are not one too many Joe Bonamassa is a live musician through and through. This is shown by the fact that the blues rocker has released 13 live albums, almost as many...
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(Provogue) 44 Tracks - Deluxe Digisleeve - DVD:Dolby Digital 2.0/DSS 5.1;Picture:16:9/NTSC;Country code:0;Runtime:180 Min. Two incredible concerts Gov't Mule celebrate their 25th band anniversary. The blues rock icons rented themselves...
(Provogue) 12 Tracks - New life for forgotten songs
Two years after his last album We're All In This Together, Walter Trout returns from the studio in 2019 with a new longplayer: Survivor Blues! Instead of his own songs, the US guitarist...
(Provogue) 25 tracks Deluxe CD + DVD edition. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band release Straight To You: Live. Their only other live output, the Live! In Chicago album was released a decade ago and got itself a Grammy nomination along the...
(2017/Provogue) 11 Tracks - Ecopack - It’s more than 20 years since Johnny Lang’s Grammy-winning exploits as a 15-year-old guitar prodigy saw him hyped as the future of the blues. The future, it turned out, had other ideas. Nonetheless,...
(Concord Records) 10 Tracks - US pressing - He started playing the guitar at the age of 7, playing Muddy Waters licks. At the age of 13 he was brought onto a stage in New Orleans by blues musicians Bryan Lee and Stevie Ray Vaughan. After...
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(Vizz Tone) 16 tracks, digisleeve. Somebody Put Bad Luck On Me is Bob Corritore’s latest masterpiece collection of newly recorded songs featuring a spectacular offering of today’s top blues artists. Bob’s brilliant harmonica work is the...
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(Provogue) 9 tracks A few years ago, there were whispers around blues-rock dynamo Beth Hart's orbit about a glorious album of Led Zeppelin covers, meticulously put together by superstar producer Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Linkin Park, My...
(Provogue) 11 Tracks 2020 release. For Walter Trout, there is no 'us' and 'them'. Across his five-decade career, the great US bluesman's music has always been a lifeline and call-to-arms, reminding listeners they are not alone. Now, as...
When his first album came out in 1994, everybody was expecting his blues career to take off like a rocket. But eventually his career got lost in confusion. But finally Todd Sharpville, the blue-blooded UK bluesman, is back with a...
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(Rhythm Bomb Records) 14 tracks, digisleeve Europe's top blues band returns 34 years after its founding with another top-notch studio album. CD in three-piece digisleeve and limited LP on Rhythm Bomb. Around 4,000 live performances...
(Blue Heart) 12 tracks, digisleeve The highly decorated Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps are on the upswing. They return with Rose-Colored Glasses Vol. 2, making it three albums in a row. Teresa James continues to be hailed as one of the...
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(Made In Germany) 21 tracks OMAR & THE HOWLERS were formed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1973 by guitarist and singer Omar Dykes. A short time later the musicians moved to Austin, Texas. But the band broke up because some members felt...
(Marshall) 10 tracks, digisleeve Laurence Jones follows up his 2022 album "Destination Unknown" with the brand new album "Bad Luck & The Blues". Refining his sound and returning with a trio, the new album shows Laurence Jones at his...
(Club 88 Records) 21 tracks, digisleeve - as Woods and his friends show us, the blues never gets old! In 2017, boogie-woogie pianist Mitch Woods released a swinging album of (mostly) duets with some of his friends and favorite blues...
(Ramasound) 12 tracks. Eddie Kirkland ...the gypsy of the blues - an outstanding blues legend who combined all the myths about blues artists in one person - in honor of your 100th birthday.
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(2016/The Blues Foundation) 21 Tracks - Deluxe Digipack - Live CD and DVD featuring performances from the 37th Blues Music Awards, Cook Convention Center, Memphis, TN, May 5, 2016! DVD: region code 1
(The Blues Foundation) 14 Tracks on CD, 24 Tracks on DVD - Deluxe Digisleeve - The 38th Blues Music Awards, Cook Convention Center, Memphis, Tennessee, May 11, 2017!
(The Blues Foundation) 17 Tracks on CD, 18 Tracks on DVD Deluxe Digisleeve The 39th Blues Music Awards, Cook Convention Center, Memphis, Tennessee, May 10, 2018!
(Forty Below Records) 8 tracks Here is the third and final volume of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers 'Live in 1967', starring Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood just before they formed Fleetwood Mac. These historic performances were...