Blues isn’t about color – it’s about feeling. Our White Blues section celebrates influential white musicians who embraced, honored and expanded the blues tradition with authenticity and soul.
From British blues boom to Texas heat
Explore Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, John Mayall, Stevie Ray Vaughan and others who brought the blues to new audiences worldwide.
True to the roots, bold in sound
Find legendary recordings on CD & vinyl – curated by Bear Family Records, your source for historical and modern blues excellence.
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Blues isn’t about color – it’s about feeling. Our White Blues section celebrates influential white musicians who embraced, honored and expanded the blues...
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Blues isn’t about color – it’s about feeling. Our White Blues section celebrates influential white musicians who embraced, honored and expanded the blues tradition with authenticity and soul.
From British blues boom to Texas heat
Explore Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, John Mayall, Stevie Ray Vaughan and others who brought the blues to new audiences worldwide.
True to the roots, bold in sound
Find legendary recordings on CD & vinyl – curated by Bear Family Records, your source for historical and modern blues excellence.
Founded in 1995, this is the fourth album by the Belgium band. 'Indeed' is presenting a great set of original tunes, covering a wide array of styles, from latin-flavored mambo to ZZ Top-style rockers, from rootsy Southern sounds and soul...
Texas style blues from: Tromsö, Norway. Inspired by the masters of Texas blues guitar, the trio has found its own expression, performing a nice set of (mostly) originals. Great playing, good vocals, too. BIRGER MEYER GJERDRUM - gtr/voc,...
Mostly slow and mid-tempo tunes, singer/songwriter concept album. Rootsy folk, blues and ballads. Harry Muskee's music has changed dramatically since the early heydays of the band. HARRY MUSKEE - voc/hca, ERWIN JAVA- gtrs, HELMIG VAN DER...
Debut album from this excellent band featuring the great Big Chico on harmonica. Nice mix of originals and covers. 'Westcoast-style harmonica blues at its best!'. BIG CHICO - voc/hca, YURI - gtr, EDER DIAS - bass, MAZZOLA -drums.
Three cover versions, plus ten original imstrumentals: Dave Specter's 2010 album delivers great, stunning guitar numbers. Although from Chicago, Dave has always incorporated a lot of different inspirations and sounds into his musical...
New band from East coast. Chris's musical background includes duties as lead singer for Levon Helm's band, The Barnburners. Chris has also recorded with Hubert Sumlin among others. He's a solid vocalist and excellent harmonica player....
Produced by Colin Linden in New Orleans. Three times 'Blues Music Award' winner, piano player and vocalist Eden Brent delivers a great set of r&b-inspired blues, New Orleans style. Excellent. EDEN BRENT - voc/pno, COLIN LINDEN - gtrs,...
Strongly influenced by the bands of the British blues boom, this Dutch band was very popular in the Germany's west. NICKO CHRISTIANSEN - voc>r/bongos, TED OBERG - gtr, JOHN LAGRAND - hca, HENK SMITSKAMP - bass/pno, CESAR ZUIDERWIJK -...
The opener sounds like a Procul Harum song. The remaining tracks are Dutch blues(rock) at its best. HARRY 'CUBY' MUSKEE - voc/hca, EELCO GELLING - gtr, HELMIG VAN DER VEGT - pno/org, HERMAN DEINUM - bass, HANS LA FAILLE - drums, plus horns.
Excellent roots album from the British rocker. REcorded with great players near Austin, Texas this CD contains mostly originals. Beautiful mix of Southern country soul, a shot of blues, fold and country music. Excellent. STEVIE NIMMO -...
Bob Margolin's his mentor. 'On The Floor' is Hill's debut album, deeply rooted in the early elecetric blues sounds from Memphis and Chicago. But he's not an imitator. He knows how to play with that certain attitude. Most songs are...
On March 24,1963 Koewrner, Ray & Glover recorded their first album in Wisconsin. It was done within 9 hours. Later that day, Koerner & Ray played a set in a local coffee shop. Around midnight, John Koerner was live on the air via a local...
For nearly one decade, Koerner and Willie Murphy had been working together before they decided to leave New York's Elektra Records. Murphy produced Bonnie Raitt's first Warner album in 1971, using his own band in the studio. With the...
Unique one man band. He plays a self-build twin-guitar. Rock/blues, performed sol. Highlight is his version of 'We Will Rock You'. CLAUDE HAY - voc/twin neck gtr/sitar/bass/drums.
Great new set in Sony Music's 'Legacy' series. This release contains two CDs, one with SRV's original second album (augmented by three previously unreleased studio cuts and a couple of more rarities), a second CD features the band live...
She won Australia's prestigious '2009 Australian Female Blues Artist of the Year' award. Obviously, she's regarded one oft he most promising femaile blues acts from won under. ANDREA MARR - voc, GREG DODD - gtr, CAM SCOTT - kbds, CLINT...
Most likely he's from Florida. On the inside picture, Ben Prestage looks like a young Fidel Castro. One-man-band with a lot of energy and a good sense for the tradition of the blues. Entertaining. - Digipak. BEN PRESTAGE -...
Original material, a nice blend of traditional style blues, roots rock, and soul ballads. Well done. RITA CHIARELLI - gtr, CHRISTINE BUGIE - lap steel/gtr, DENNIS KELDIE -kbds, GEORGE KOLLER - bass, AL CROSS - drums.
During the last couple of years Holmstrom was the guitar player and band leader behind Mavis, the queen of gospel-soul blues. On 'Twist-O-Lettz' he's teaming-up with his regular drummer, and multi-talented artist Juke Logan. This...
Mostly covers of well-known tunes. Nice arrangements, but rather uninspired sounding vocals. MICHAEL HAWKEYE HERMAN - voc/gt,r plus hca, wbd, bass, drums.
Second album from the Irish bluesrocker. Guitar-driven tunes, all originals. In my book, one of the very best blues/rock artists in Europe. - Digipak. SIMON McBRIDE - gtr/voc, CARL HARVEY - bass, PAUL HAMILTON - drums.