https://www.bigcitybluesmag.com/ A big thank you to our dear friends Robert Jr. Whitall and Shirley Mae Owens, aka Sugar, for their recent issue of Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine that stars Delmark Records. The cover of the magazine features a wonderful large group picture of many who were involved in the 1st annual Delmark Stroll,…
Dave Specter – Six String Soul: 30 Years on Delmark By Jeff Johnson Delmark Records is billing Six String Soul as “A SPECtacular retroSPECtive,” an apt description and clever play on words for this two-disc survey of Windy City guitar star Dave Specter’s 30-year career with Chicago’s iconic blues and jazz label. For the uninitiated,…
Bob Stroger & The Headcutters: Winter Release Very Soon GLOBAL BLUES: 90-year-old Chicago blues master with the sensational Brazilian band “The Headcutters”, get ready! Lurrie Bell Artist of the Month: born December 13th, 1958, Chicago “Lurrie Bell, his father Carey Bell, & the Bell family have ten albums on Delmark Records. Lurrie, our Artist of…
Born James Earl Thompson November 25th, 1928, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Jimmy Johnson is the BLUES ARTIST OF 2021, BEST BLUES GUITAR PLAYER ON 2019 and a member of the BLUES HALL OF FAME. During 2021 Jimmy also received the MUDDY WATERS AWARD from the Jus’s Blues Foundation and the LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from…
JIMMY JOHNSON IS THE GUEST ARTIST FOR JOSE RAMIREZ UPCOMING DELMARK ALBUM.After his historical Chicago recording sessions with the Delmark All Stars, playing at Rosa’s with Mike Wheeler Band, Jose Ramirez ans his triumphal European tour, is the time to announce that 93-year-old Chicagoi blues master Jimmy Johnson is a guest artist on Jose Ramirez…
November 2 at S.P.A.C.E. – The CD party will feature special guests! The legendary and inspirational ageless wonder, “The Bar Room Preacher,” Jimmy Johnson with sensational soul and blues vocalist/harpist Tad Robinson, and Austin, TX/Chicago saxophonist Dez Desormeaux! With Dave’s all-star band of vocalist/keyboardist Brother John Kattke, bassist Harlan Lee Terson, and drummer Marty Binder!…
Exactly one year ago Delmark Records released Mojo Morganfield’s song “It’s Good To Be King”. Bringing Muddy Waters’ family into the Delmark family, to make justice to their legacy, musicianship, talent and dedication was a goal Delmark’s new management had since the beginning. Signing Mojo Morganfield was a decision the label will never regret. Mojo,…
Dave Specter’s double album SIX STRING SOUL coming October 22 Delmark celebrates Dave’s 30 years on the label with a stellar line-up of guests including Otis Clay, Jorma Kaukonen, Lurrie Bell, Billy Branch, Ronnie Earl, Jimmy Johnnson & more. Dave Specter has earned an international reputation as one of the premier talents on the Chicago…
Be sure to pick up the September issue of America’s longest running blues publication, LIVING BLUES! Remembering Bob Koester 1932–2021 By Jim O’Neal and others Bob Koester, owner of Delmark Records and the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, was for more than 60 years a mentor and friend to many in the blues world, and…
A big shout out to our friend, Bob Marovich and his amazingly detailed, informative, and well researched and written website, Journal of Gospel Music for his new review of Mud Morganfield‘s new Delmark Records gospel blues single, “Praise Him!” Thank goodness we have this “definitive online resource of gospel music of yesterday, today, and tomorrow”…
