Sam Teskey (born 1989) is an Australian blues musician, best known for his work with the Teskey Brothers. Sam won the Aria Award for Engineer of the Year in 2019. His debut studio album, "Cycles", was released on 8 October 2021 via Ivy League Records. Inspired by the cycles of life, Sam Teskey, guitarist of critically-acclaimed, blues-soul band The...
Castro Coleman, also known as Mr. Sipp "Mississippi Blues Child" was born on August 25, 1976 in the small town of McComb, MS. With gospel as a base, Sipp began to play the guitar at the age of six, supported by a family dedicated body and soul to music. At present he is already a benchmark within the Blues, being...
Front porches hold a special significance for Tony Holiday. Not only does he enjoy the cozy informality of making music on them, he's done some outstanding recording on those porches too. Studios simply aren't a necessity for the blues harmonica wailer when he's ready to lay some sounds down for posterity. He just meets hisfriends on their front...
Jimmy Burns (born February 27, 1943) is an American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Although he was born in the Mississippi Delta, Burns has spent nearly all his life in Chicago. His elder brother, Eddie "Guitar" Burns, was a Detroit blues musician. Jimmy Burns was born in Dublin, Mississippi and raised on the...
Joe Barr comes straight from the smoky back rooms of Chicago, where the musical identity of the city. In the ranks of the obscure (and deserving) soldiers who animate, night after night, the urban nights, this pianist and vehement singer resides at the Kingston Mine (famous club in the North of the Windy City) with his Soul Purpose Band. For...
When one thinks of North Mississippi blues, harmonica doesn't necessarily come to mind but it was there, and here's the first release by Wilbur Lee Reliford, "Seems like a Dream". Another hero of the North Mississippi music and house party scene was Wilbert Lee Reliford, a blind harmonica player, singer and occasional guitarist. Wilburt Lee...
Born in Detroit, vocalist Pat Smillie grew up as an avid music collector whose earliest musical influences included Motor City artists such as The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett, Bob Seger and Mitch Ryder. In 1992, Smillie moved to Chicago where he cut his teeth as a live performer on Chicago's hard-scrabble south and west sides. It was...
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (born January 19, 1999) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, who became a well-known performer as a teenager. His debut album, "Kingfish", was released in May 2019. In addition to his own album, musicians he has recorded with include Eric Gales, Buddy Guy and Keb Mo. He...
Blues Traveler is an American rock band that formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band's music spans a variety of genres, including blues rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock. They are known for extensive use of segues in live performances, and were considered a key part of the re-emerging jam band scene of the 1990s,...
Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with...
Vidar Busk (born 19 May 1970 in Langesund, Norway) is a Norwegian guitarist, vocalist, composer and record producer within genres blues and soul. Busk grew up in Langesund, but went to US when 15 years old, to play with the American blues artist Rock Bottom. He toured the U.S. several years before returning to Norway in 1990, and was awarded...
Sean Chambers is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His main guitar playing influences are the work of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and his early professional music experience was gained while touring for four years backing Hubert Sumlin. Chambers has worked with a variety of blues musicians, who include Derek Trucks,...