Vance Kelly & His Back Street Blues Band How Can I Miss You, When You Won't Leave (CD)

(2017/Wolf Records) 14 Tracks - 2017 release from the blues award winner. The album was recorded in Chicago and features a mix of blues, R&B and soul. Vance Kelly has performed regularly at various music venues in the Chicago area, chief among them being the 1815, Checkerboard Lounge, Rosa's Lounge, Kingston Mines, Buddy Guy's Legends, and B.L.U.E.S. A music journalist noted of Kelly, "Like Primer, he combines an enquiring eye for a song with a moderately conservative taste in sound, producing music that lives by the principles of classic Chicago bar blues yet is not enslaved by the past".