Blues: Delta Style and Folk: Folk Blues
JOE MCGUINNESS: From These Seeds
The long awaited "From these seeds" is a unique take on old school back porch folk/blues, laced with lyrical gems, incredible guitar landscapes, Old school blues for new school ears. An enjoyable listen from start to finish. Highly recommended.
Recommended if you like Tom Waits.CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
WORLD RESOPHONIC ASSOCIATION: Resophonic Players of Europe 2005
A powerful compilation of Resophonic Roots Music, featuring renowned European Independent Musicians. Indeed, a rare glimpse into the European Roots Indie scene.
Recommended if you like Leo Kottke, Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Arlo Guthrie, David Lindley.CD price: $12.97
RON CAMPBELL: A Skinny Old White Man Sings The Blues
"Gritty and great." - Chattanooga Times. Campbell’s debut CD was runner-up for the 1999 JPF Blues Album of the Year. It’s solo Delta Blues, with acoustic guitar, harmonica and drums – played simultaneously and recorded live in the studio.
Recommended if you like Robert Johnson, John Hammond.CD price: $12.97
BEN BONHAM & JAMES COOK: Ragged Blues
Delta Blues on slide guitar and one string bass
CD price: $12.97
DEWEY BURNS: Always Be This Way
Dewey Burns, an accomplished picker and clever songwriter died too soon, so the Blues and Folk community came together and recorded half of these songs.
Recommended if you like Taj Mahal, John Hammond.CD price: $12.97
ELAM MCKNIGHT & KEITH CARTER: The Last Country Store
Number 22 on the National Living Blues Chart for July. SIngle Produced by Grammy Winner Jimbo Mathus The Last Country Store is an exploration into Deep Roots Blues. This is the primal place of the human spirit where the REAL DEAL is
Recommended if you like Charley Patton, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAVE SHERMAN: RiverSide
The album contains styles from folk, country and blues. Dave sings about family, faith, friends and duct tape.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $14.85
GARETH HEDGES AND LANCE BENNETT: candyman
Two old English buddies (playing acoustic guitar and harmonica), in love with vintage American music, who refuse to give it up -- any of it.
Recommended if you like Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.CD price: $12.97
JOHN MOONEY: Big Ol' Fiya
"Big Ol' Fiya" Nominated for 2007 Blues Foundations BMA "Contemporary Blues Album of the Year". It's been a long time coming but Mooney has brought some profound musical styles and songwriting to his signature syncopated delta blues with this, his latest
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ERNIE HAWKINS: Bluesified
Blues Revue: "...a ray of sunshine, a perfect cure for the winter doldrums. It's unpretentious, overwhelmingly sweet and good-hearted...positively glowing with good feeling. Bluesified is a fine tribute to his years of dedications. Acoustic blues, rag
CD price: $14.99
SHANE SPEAL: Stealing the Fire
The King of the Cigar Box Guitar plays the songs of tiMOTHy Renner (Stone Breath, etc) in a raw and primitive country blues style.
Recommended if you like Blind Willie Johnson, Stone Breath.CD price: $11.00
SHOESHINE BLUE: Talk Real Slow
A bedroom blues opera, full of lo watt amps, acoustics, haunting vocals and literary swagger.
CD price: $12.97
DAVID EVANS: Match Box Blues
Having learned directly from many of the old-time blues musicians who were still performing during the 1960s, Evans' style is honest and embraces the great folk tradition to which he has devoted his life.
CD price: $13.99
DAVE MACKENZIE: Solo
Masterful presentation of solo blues forms with topics from the deeply introspective to the hysterically funny.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
DE ELLIOT BROS.: Yooper Girls
Accoustic -Jugband -Country -Ragtime -Blues Americana -Oldtime Stringband - Homemade Instruments -Minesota humor -Jamming -Funky
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JOHN EMIL: John Emil
John Emil has taken the lost art of slide guitar to a totally new direction. This is new roots music for the new millenium..
CD price: $10.00
CHRIS ENGLISH: Lowdown in the House
Delta style is Chris' forte, singing, playing vintage guitars and harp, stamping out the time on an old wooden coca cola crate, creating subtle polyrhythms and powerful vocals .
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
THE YARD DOGS: Welcome To Paradise
Cajun/Zydeco music...but not really. Uptempo, footstomping, original and lots of fun.
Recommended if you like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buckwheat Zydeco.CD price: $17.00
MARTIN JACK ROSENBLUM: Swamp River
Brooding Blues about a world that does not add up.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
LAPTOP RANDY: Down at the Cajun Cafe on the Bayou
Swampy, backwoods, backwater, down home, front porch, Dobro style lap slide guitar music.
Recommended if you like Leo Kottke.
SWAMP BOOGIE: Food and Sex
In the context of the band's bayou-inflected blues-singing slide guitar, joyous and dirty rhythms, carnival-esque accordion-and ebullient, innuendo-laden vocals, food and sex seem pretty much the same thing.
Recommended if you like Buckwheat Zydeco.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
VINCE JUNIOR: Better Than A Wheel
Adult Acoustic Folk Swamp. Bluesy, but not the blues: Lots of slide on an old National resonator guitar. Smokey vocals and mysterious lyrics.
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, Greg Brown.CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
