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  • Walter Trout – Bad Love

    Walter Trout – Bad Love

    Walter Trout - Bad Love
    Walter Trout – Bad Love

    Walter Trout

    Trout founded his own solo band in 1989 and cut his debut album ‘Life In The Jungle’ that same year. He rapidly became a chart-topping star in Europe. His first stateside release, 1998’s critically heralded ‘Walter Trout,’. It made him a fixture of the US blues-rock scene. Released in 2015, ‘Battle Scars’ is his 18th album on the Netherlands-based Provogue label, and his 42nd overall, including pre-solo recordings with Canned Heat and the Bluesbreakers.

    Over the decades, Trout has accumulated numerous honors. He is a three-time winner of the Overseas Artist Of The Year title at the British Blues Awards, and a three-time Blues Music Awards nominee. In 2015, he won the Sena European Guitar Award, an honor he shares with acclaimed past winners like Brian May, Steve Lukather and Slash. Trout’s six-string prowess also earned him the #6 slot in BBC Radio 1’s Top 20 Guitarist listeners’ poll.

    Albums

    1989 Life in the Jungle (re-released in US in 2002)
    1990 Prisoner of a Dream
    1992 Transition
    1992 No More Fish Jokes (live album)
    1994 Tellin’ Stories
    1995 Breaking The Rules
    1996 Jimi Hendrix Music Festival (Janblues)
    1997 Positively Beale St.
    1998 Walter Trout (same tracks as Positively Beale St.)
    1999 Livin’ Every Day
    2000 Face The Music (Live on Tour)
    2000 Live Trout
    2001 Go The Distance
    2001 Go The Distance
    2003 Relentless
    2005 Deep Trout: The Early Years of Walter Trout
    2006 Full Circle (featuring guest artists)
    2007 Hardcore (self released recording of the ‘Power Trio’ playing live in Europe)
    2008 The Outsider
    2009 Unspoiled By Progress: 20 Years of Hardcore Blues (previously unreleased tracks and three new songs)
    2010 Common Ground
    2012 Blues For The Modern Daze
    2013 Luther’s Blues
    2014 The Blues Came Callin
    2015 Battle Scars
    2016 Alive In Amsterdam
    2017 We’re All In This Together
    2019 Survivor Blues
    2020 Ordinary Madness
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  • Albert Collins – Love Me Like You Say

    Albert Collins – Love Me Like You Say

    Albert Collins

    Albert Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. Collins was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and capo.

    Albert Collins, “The Master of the Telecaster,” “The Iceman,” and “The Razor Blade” was robbed of his best years as a blues performer by a bout with liver cancer that ended with his premature death on November 24, 1993. He was just 61 years old.

    Albert is most famous for his fingerstyle playing, “open F-minor tuning,” use of a capo and live performances.

    “He was just naturally one of the most exciting and energetic live artists I’ve ever seen,” said Alligator Records owner Bruce Iglauer, who co-produced Albert Collins’ output for the label.

    His music isn’t always pretty, and it certainly doesn’t have classic form, but it always has a feeling. You never know what Collins’ fingers will produce — it sounds as if he doesn’t either — but his solos never fail to dazzle.

    Albert Collins – I Ain’t DrunkAlbert “Iceman” Collins (1932-1993) – an American blues singer and guitarist. Texan played guitar from an early age. Growing up in a musical environment Collins had a lot of inspiration, like his cousin – known guitarist. At age 20, formed a band the Rhythm Rockers. Collins, next to B.B. King and Albert King is one of the pantheons of blues guitarists, having a significant impact on today’s guitarists, not just blues one.

    Albert began his career in the late 1960s, recorded over 20 albums. Mentioned as the inspiration of many musicians of later generations, including Jimi Hendriks and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

    Collins was born in Texas in 1932, he was the cousin of the famous guitarist Lightnin ‘Hopkins. He played the guitar from his early youth, he moved to Houston when he was 7 years old. The first group – the Rhythm Rockers – was founded in 1952. Six years later, he recorded “The Freeze”, his debut single for Kangaroo Records. Collins’s later pieces, often instrumental, also referred to winter themes, such as “Icy Blue”, “Do not Loose Your Cool” or “Defrost”.

    The biggest hit of Collins turned out to be the instrumental song “Frosty” released in 1962, which sold millions of copies. In 1968, after a joint concert with Canned Heat in California, Bob Hite introduced him to Imperial Records, who agreed to release Collins’ solo album.

    In 1978, he joined Alligator Records, where he recorded 7 albums, including one with the participation of two other famous blues guitarists: Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland.

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  • Freddie King – Key To The Highway

    Freddie King – Key To The Highway

    Freddie King – Key To The Highway

    Freddie King

    Freddie King (born September 3, 1934, in Gilmer, died December 28, 1976, in Dallas) is an American blues musician.

    Like many other bluesmen of his time, he began his career in Chicago. He playing in the groups of Little Sonny Cooper and Hound Dog Taylor. Probably under the influence of Taylor, he developed his specific style of playing blues on an electric guitar.

    King’s best-known songs are recorded in the early 1960s. “Hide Away” and “Have You Ever Loved a Woman?”. As well as the Burglar album released in 1974. “Hide Away”. This title derives from the name of the popular Chicago bar. The song was repeatedly recorded and performed, including by Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jeff Healey.

    The guitarist died of a heart attack in 1976 during a concert tour, which he played with Clapton, only three days after his last concert.

    Playing style and technique

    King was characterized by a specific style of playing the guitar, using a plastic thumb pick and a metal index finger pick. He learned this technique from Jimmy Rogers.

    King has had a great impact on the work of blues-rock musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ronnie Earl, Peter Green and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

    In 1993, the then Governor of Texas announced September 3 as the day of Freddie King. Only such legends as Bob Wills and Buddy Holly experienced such an honor.

    In 2003, Freddie King was placed by Rolling Stone magazine on the 25th place in the list of top 100 guitarists of all timeThroughout his career, King favoured Fender amps and used a number of different models, including the Fender Super Reverb and the Fender Dual Showman. Arguably though, the amp with which King is best associated is the Fender Quad Reverb, which he used for much of his career.

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  • Tab Benoit – Nice and Warm

    Tab Benoit – Nice and Warm

    Tab Benoit – Nice and Warm
    Tab Benoit – Nice and Warm

    Tab Benoit

    One of the most impressive guitarists to emerge from the rich Bayous of Southern Louisiana in recent years, Tab Benoit’s guitar tone can be recognized before his Otis-Redding-ish voice resonates from the speakers. He doesn’t rely on any effects and his set up is simple. It consists of a guitar, cord, and Category 5 Amplifier. The effects that you hear come from his fingers.

    Born on November 17, 1967, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Benoit grew up in the nearby oil and fishing town of Houma, where he still resides today. Musically, he was exposed early on to traditional Cajun waltzes and the country music broadcast on his hometown’s only radio station. Benoit’s father was himself a musician; as such, the family home was filled with various instruments. He began playing drums but switched to guitar because the only gigs to be had in rural Louisiana were held in churches and at church fairs, and organizers would not allow loud drums to be played at these events.

    In the late 80’s Tab Benoit began hanging out at the Blues Box, a music club and cultural center in Baton Rouge run by guitarist Tabby Thomas. Playing guitar alongside Thomas, Raful Neal, Henry Gray and other high-profile regulars at the club, Benoit learned the blues first-hand from these living blues legends. He formed a trio in 1987 and began playing clubs in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

    In 1992 Benoit released his first recording Nice and Warm on the Justice Label. The title track became a AAA Radio hit and Benoit’s touring career kicked into high gear. Nice and Warm prompted comparisons to blues guitar heavyweights like Albert King, Albert Collins and even Jimi Hendrix. Tab began playing two-hundred and fifty shows a year, a schedule he has kept up for over twenty years. He recorded four albums for Justice Records before being signed to the Vanguard label, and became Louisiana’s Number One Blues export. Vanguard allowed Tab to produce his own recordings; Tab wanted to record the sound that he was trying to create and in 1999 Vanguard Records released These Blues Are All Mine…

    Read more here: https://www.tabbenoit.com/bio/

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  • Gary Moore – Cold Day In Hell

    Gary Moore – Cold Day In Hell

    Gary Moore – Cold Day In Hell
    Gary Moore – Cold Day In Hell

    Gary Moore

    An outstanding composer, guitarist, and singer of blues and rock. He is known mainly for his unique, highly emotional style of playing the guitar. The perfect technical mastery of the instrument.
    Gary Moore was born April 4, 1952, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He began his career in the second half of the 60s. Inspired by the works of contemporary blues-rock guitarists  Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall. He spread his wings as a guitarist of the Irish group Skid Row. That’s when he was spotted by his idol, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, who helped the group to sign a contract with a major label and gave Gary one of his favorite guitars 1959 Gibson Les Paul. After years Moore played this guitar on the entire album with compositions of his idol, “Blues for Greeny.”

    Solo career

    The 70s are for Moore’s a very busy time. Solo career began by issuing in 1973 the album “Grinding Stone”. He also participated in many side projects. He played mainly in Thin Lizzy and progress rock project Colosseum II. At the end of the decade, and by the entire 80s seriously took up a solo career releasing during this period 7 albums and leaving behind such classics as “Parisienne Walkway’s”, “After The War” and “Over the Hills and Far Away”. In the 80s his style departed somewhat from blues to hard rock and soft metal, but in 1990, he reminded himself as a blues guitarist releasing his most famous album “Still Got The Blues“. This release, featured Albert Collins, Albert King, George Harrison.

    Blues accompanied guitarist on subsequent albums “After Hours” and “Blues for Greeny.” At the turn of the century Gary Moore experimented with new sounds, however, they issued these style albums that were not too well received by fans and critics here in 2001 again returned to the blues album “Back to the Blues.” His beloved music remained faithful until the end of his career.

    He died on 6 February 2011, of a heart attack in his sleep. It was during his holiday in the Spanish town of Estepona.

    Gary Moore – Cold Day In Hell
    Gary Moore – Cold Day In Hell

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  • Billy Gibbons – These Boots Are Made For Walking

    Billy Gibbons – These Boots Are Made For Walking

    Billy Gibbons

    Born in Texas in 1949, Billy Gibbons began his initial band in his mid-teen years. Around 1970, Gibbons developed ZZ Top, with the first cd following in 1971. Their development followed the participants split means around 1976 after that grew lengthy beards and also reemerged with newfound energy on 1983’s Eliminator, which generated numerous favorites. Billy Gibbons, as well as ZZTop, remain to make music, and also Gibbons has branched off into tv as well as cooking undertakings.

    Along with the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons is unquestionably one of the finest blues-rock guitarists to ever emerge from Texas.

    A longtime vintage guitar collector, Gibbons owns some of the world’s most cherished and rare guitars, including a particular instrument that he’s become synonymous with, a 1959 Sunburst Les Paul Standard (which he dubbed “Pearly Gates”).

    Gibbons’ exceptional playing with ZZ Top that he’s best known for, as the guitarist has influenced a wide variety of players over the years, including the Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood and Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell, to name just two.

    ZZ Top

    ZZ Top is an American trio from Texas. The group was founded in 1970. Its members were artists from once competing bands – guitarist Billy Gibbons from the Moving Sidewalks, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard from American Blues.
    ZZ Top gained fame thanks to the track “La Grange” from the blues-rock album “Tres Hombres“. The next albums “Deguello”, “El Loco”, “Eliminator” and “Afterburner” also did not go unnoticed. The artists developed a distinctive image – long beards, golf hats and dark glasses.

    They started their musical career in the seventies with a sound characterized by blues-rock and south rock while retaining the characteristic hard rock. However, they gained commercial fame in the 1980s with the albums 1983 Eliminator and 1985 Afterburner, in a style closer to electronic rock and with the use of synthesizers.

    Billy Gibbons – These Boots Are Made For Walking
    Billy Gibbons – These Boots Are Made For Walking

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  • Rory Gallagher – Bad Penny

    Rory Gallagher – Bad Penny

    Rory Gallagher - Bad Penny
    Rory Gallagher – Bad Penny

    Rory Gallagher

    Rory Gallagher (1948-1995) was an Irish guitar virtuoso playing blues and rock, songwriter, and concertmaster.

    He sold 30 million albums but gained the greatest recognition thanks to his live performances. Gallagher is considered one of the most energetic and charismatic guitarists of his generation, for the precursor of hard rock, and even grunge (worn-out pants, flannel shirt, and worn-out guitar – these are elements of his stage image). He was an outsider and his works often talk about alienation, life on the road, and seeking freedom.

    In 1972, Rory embarked on a tour of Europe promoting the album “Deuce”. He was also accompanied by a white Telecaster in 1966 because it was perfect for “Bullfrog Blues” tracks. The musician, however, began to use guitars with stronger transducers, which were very good with the slide game, for example, Esquire from 1959 or Gretsch PX6134 Corvette with the P-90 converter. He was faithful to this latter for many years.

    Solo carier

    Rory’s solo career began to gain momentum especially in 1973 when drummer Wilgar Campbell – tired of the tour promoting the album “Deuce” – left the music. In his place, Rory accepted Rod de’Atha. Behind the keys sat Lou Martin. This was a great move: thanks to the new element, which were the keys, Rory could afford more freedom and experiments on the guitar.

    With the help of this strong lineup, Rory recorded two more studio albums. The composition continued throughout the “Irish Tour” until 1977. Rory’s equipment was also undergoing a transformation. The Vox AC30 did not match the new group sound. So the artist started using a few Fenders, but he resigned from Rangemaster using Hawk’s treble booster instead.

    Irish Tour 1974

    For many fans, the “Irish Tour” is the album that best captures Gallagher’s musical talent. As in a nutshell, he focuses all his most spectacular achievements in playing the guitar. This is a phenomenal concert and a phenomenal album. It included not only energetic performances of studio songs from 1973, such as “Tattoo’d Lady”, but also lively covers, for example, “As The Crow Flies” by Tony Joe White. Rory played it on the National Triolian Resophonic Guitar.

    The route around Ireland has gone to the legend, as evidenced by the fact that Bare Knuckle Pickups has released a series of pickups called the Irish Tour.

    Rory Gallagher… He sure can make the guitar talk.

    Academy Award-winning Director, Murray Lerner explores Irelands seminal rock band ‘Taste’ with unseen footage from the trio’s now legendary performance at the Isle Of Wight Festival 1970.

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  • Albert King – As The Years Go Passing By

    Albert King – As The Years Go Passing By

    Albert King – As The Years Go Passing by
    Albert King – As The Years Go Passing by

    Albert King

    (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known professionally as Albert King. He was an American blues guitarist and singer, and a major influence in the world of blues guitar playing. As one of the “Three Kings of the Blues Guitar” (along with B.B. King and Freddie King), he is perhaps best known for the 1967 single “Born Under a Bad Sign”.

    In May 2013, King was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    Albert was a big man and the Flying V guitar was his weapon of choice. It was like a toy in his huge hands. He eschewed picks, preferring to pluck the strings with his fingers.

    His bluesy bends and stinging notes influenced a later generation of players including Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimi Hendrix, among others.

    King of the blues guitar

    Albert King is the undisputed “king of the blues guitar” and one of the “three kings of the blues” along with B.B. King and Freddie King. He started his legend with a debut album recorded for Stax Records. The greatest influence on King was pre-war bluesman Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, as well as post-war artists such as T-Bone Walker and Howlin ‘Wolf. He himself became a role model for another master – Jimi Hendrix.

    Albert quickly began to perform for a wider audience, he played, which was then difficult to comprehend, for white listeners, among others in the Fillmore Auditorium, thanks to which his fans became e.g. Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Gary Moore, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He became an inspiration. It can be safely said that he contributed to the creation of the so-called white blues in the UK.

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  • Keb’ Mo’ – Kind Hearted Woman Blues

    Keb’ Mo’ – Kind Hearted Woman Blues

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    Kind Hearted Woman Blues

    “Kind Hearted Woman Blues” is a blues song recorded on November 23, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. The song was originally released on 78 rpm format as Vocalion 03416 and ARC 7-03-56. Johnson performed the song in the key of A, and recorded two takes, the first of which contains his only recorded guitar solo.

    Like many of Johnson’s songs, “Kind Hearted Woman Blues” is a staple in the repertoires of many blues musicians and has been recorded by dozens of traditional and contemporary blues figures, including Keb’ Mo’.

    Keb’ Mo’ (Kevin Moore) is a three-time American Grammy Award-winning blues musician. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as “a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America”. His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, and pop.

    Keb’ Mo’

    “The blues is closer to the church, I think. You know, it’s going back to the savior, the blues is closer to church music because the church people didn’t like the blues. You know, like they didn’t like rock and roll. … So the blues is, you know, it’s kind of evil in a sense. But it’s actually the same music.” Said Keb in his interview for Huffington Post (Read more: huffingtonpost.com)

    Keb' Mo'

    The latest release from Keb is “Keb’ Mo’ Live – That Hot Pink Blues Album.” It captures him at his best on his 2015 tour. The 16 tracks on two discs were recorded in nine different cities across the country. “Hot Pink”  essentially proves that all Keb’ Mo’ albums should be live albums.

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  • Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Somehow, Somewhere, Someway

    Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Somehow, Somewhere, Someway

    Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Somehow, Somewhere, Someway
    Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Somehow, Somewhere, Someway

    Kenny Wayne Shepherd

    Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist born in Shreveport Louisiana in 1977. It was his home environment where he developed his love for blues, rock, hard rock, and blues-rock. Kenney would often follow his father around when he planned concert events in the area. His grandmother also bought him guitars and supported his love of music. Kenny was surrounded by music during his early years. At 7 years old he taught himself to play the guitar after seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan. He would play his guitar one note at a time until he could learn chord progressions. He picked up the music from the collection of C D”s his father kept at home,

    At the age of 13 years old, the great blues musician Bryan lee surprised him and called him on stage to play. A video was recorded and sent to the head of Giant Records who signed him to a record deal. He would stay at Giant Records to create many more records. He has released 10 total albums from 1995 to 2019. Many of these albums have earned critical acclaim around the world. Shepherd has won several music awards including multiple Grammy and Billboard Music Awards. He has been playing professionally since 1990.

    Kenny Wayne Shepherd is a self-taught guitarist and singer/songwriter who started with nothing and is now making millions of dollars doing what he loves. There is an old saying that says, “Find your passion in life and make it work.” Shepherd is recording albums and performing in concerts to show his passion for the blues and rock genres of music. He plays in venues all around the world with some of the world’s greatest blues and rock singers and musicians. He is paving the way for those young blues and rock musicians who are yet to come and lend their talents to the world. Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an American blues and rock legend.

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