LIVE STREAMING on FACEBOOK: JIMMY & HIS BAND. Saturday November 28th, 2pm Chicago time (CST), 17 hs in Latin America, 21 hs in Europe. Get Jimmy's hoodies, tee shirts & albums! INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS...!!! LIVE from Delmark Records studio, in partnership with [Read More]
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Mojo Morganfield: Blues Royal Bloodline
Q&A with Joseph “Mojo” Morganfield: Muddy Waters' youngest son is a rising star on the Chicago blues scene. Interview by Michael Limnios. View Michael's Blog "The Blues changed. When my father was a young man the blues was a black audience, but when [Read More]
Johnny Iguana on the cover of BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE!
Pianist extraordinaire Johnny Iguana is the cover feature interview in the acclaimed publication, BLUES BLAST! Thank you, Bob Kieser and Mark Thompson for this candid and revelatory interview with the one and only Johnny Iguana. Johnny talks about his entire career, including his [Read More]
CELEBRATING BLUES MASTER JIMMY JOHNSON’S 92nd anniversary…! LIVE STREAMING with his band SAT NOV 28TH 2pm Chicago time! Directly from Delmark Records!
A Brief History Of Jimmy Johnson... On November 25th, 1928 in Holly Spring, Mississippi, Verlie and Sam Thompson proudly introduced me into this world, their first boy child, James Thompson. I was the first boy of 10 children, with only one older sibling, my cherished [Read More]
Dave Specter: “THE BALLAD OF GEORGE FLOYD” & OTHER COURAGEOUS SONGS FOR DIFFICULT TIMES
The musical association between Billy Branch & Dave Specter for the release of "The Ballad of George Floyd" is causing quite a spark. This poignant tune completed a triptych of social and political songs Dave Specter started over a year ago. How Low Can One Man Go? [Read More]
LEGENDARY CHICAGO BLUES MASTER JIMMY DAWKINS… CLICK!!! Read, watch & listen!
JIMMY DAWKINS BIOGRAPHY by Grego Anderson Jimmy Dawkins was born in Tchula, Mississippi, and moved to Chicago in 1955. He worked in a box factory, and started to play local blues clubs, gaining a reputation as a session musician. In 1969, thanks to the efforts of his [Read More]
MAGIC SAM: complete Delmark recordings…!!!
CD, LP, downloads, streaming. Magic Sam Magic Sam (Samuel Maghett) was one of the most dynamic and gifted blues musicians during his short lifetime (1937-1969). Born a few miles northeast of this site, Maghett began his performing career in Grenada and lived in this house [Read More]
BLUES NEWS MAGAZINE APPLAUDS LINSEY ALEXANDER LIVE AT ROSA’S ALBUM.
See English and German versions of the review Jörg Palitzsch in bluesnews 102 Recorded in the legendary Chicago club Rosa’s Lounge, the album is further evidence of authentic blues. The 77-year-old American songwriter, singer and guitarist Linsey Alexander is in the [Read More]
Delmark y sus artistas presentados en videos en español de “Cultura Blues”: ¡CLICK y disfruten!
Dave Specter, Jimmy Johnson, Linsey Alexander, Johnny Burgin, Mississippi Heat. SAMPLEAR y DESCARGAR SUS DISCOS AQUÍ: [Read More]
DOWNBEAT GIVES 4 STARS to Geof Bradfield/Ben Goldberg/Dana Hall Trio
“Memorable” says Robert Sacre of Johnny Iguana Chicago Spectacular album.
English and French versions of the review, inside. Posted by Robert Sacre on 5 Oct 2020 Delmark – Catalogue DE 864 Iguana is a pianist very present in Chicago clubs and festivals. He is very appreciated as partner of the whole Gotha dictionary of the bluesmen [Read More]
“Splendid sonic journey” says Step Tempest of “General Semantics”.
The trio of Geof Bradfield (tenor and soprano saxophones), Ben Goldberg (clarinet and contra-alto clarinet), and Dana Hall (drums, percussion) first met in 2017 at The Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago, IL. That chance encounter led to "General Semantics" (Delmark Records), [Read More]
ROOTSTIME MAGAZINE HIGHLIGHTS DAVE SPECTER’S “THE BALLAD OF GEORGE FLOYD” FEATURING BILLY BRANCH
"The Ballad of George Floyd" is Dave Specter's new song, featuring Billy Branch on vocals and harmonica (though Specter also sings and plays guitar on the song), John Kattke on keyboards and Danny Shaffer on acoustic guitar. While hearing this song it is clear that the civic [Read More]
CLICK! Tail Dragger is 80 today. Happy birthday!
James Yancey Jones, known professionally as Tail Dragger, was born in September 30, 1940 in Altheimer, Arkansas. Check his albums out! Read his interview with the Chicago Defender. INTERVIEW: [Read More]
A TRIBUTE TO IRA SULLIVAN, by Howard Mandel.
Ira Sullivan (May 1, 1931 – September 21, 2020) Howard Mandel ©2020 jazzmandel@gmail.com Ira Sullivan was a Chicago jazz original and devout near-native son. Born May 1, 1931 in Washington D.C., he resettled with his parents in the Midwest before he was four, [Read More]
“Iguana demonstrates that the blues is still alive and even always evolving,” says ROOTIME.
Great review by Rootime's writer Dani Heyvaert. We were only recently spoiled with “High Times in The Dark”, the fourth album by The Claudettes, the band around singer Berit Ulseth, in which Johnny Iguana plays a rather prominent piano role, or there is already a new project [Read More]
“Keys and Chords” gives a 5 STAR review to JOHNNY IGUANA “CHICAGO SPECTACULAR” Delmark album!
Piano virtuoso Johnny Iguana grew up in Philadelphia and at the age of fifteen became obsessed with Chicago blues greats like Junior Wells and Otis Spann. A few years later, he met Junior Wells at a show in New York and was thrilled when Junior hired him after some live auditions [Read More]
Chicago SunTimes: Dave Specter, Billy Branch launch protest anthem ‘The Ballad of George Floyd’
The civic-minded approach of the local blues musicians goes far beyond music. By Evan F. Moore Sep 21, 2020, 3:49pm CDT When Chicago bluesman Dave Specter watched the video of a Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee on the neck of George Floyd for eight minutes [Read More]
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