Blues: Delta Style and Mood: Brooding
THE MISSISSIPPI MARVEL: The World Must Never Know
At 78-years old, the Mississippi Marvel has lived a life steeped in blues and it shows: His powerhouse voice is one of the most riveting instruments in the blues world today, and his ragged-but-right guitar work is filled with jagged riffs and raw fury.
Recommended if you like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf.CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ROBERT LIGHTHOUSE: Drive-Thru Love
He can deliver a solo performance, playing a stomp box, amplified harp and guitar that will astonish blues purists and even get a crowd up to dance. Add a rhythm section and Stratocaster and he is Robert Johnson meets Jimi Hendrix, pleasing rock and blue
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE HELLBUSTERS: Guilty
Powerful, raw, energetic, Delta-inspired outlaw blues: "George Thorogood meets R.L. Burnside in a dark alley, just as Henry Rollins walks up with Kim Wilson, and somebody starts counting off."
Recommended if you like North Mississippi Allstars, The Black Keys, George Thorogood & The Destroyers.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
THE CHUCKY MONROES: Fallen Angel
Produced by Tony Cohen (Nick Cave, The Cruel Sea), 'Fallen Angel' is a confrontational, take-no-prisoners-rock'n'roll-meets-the blues-in-hell type of record that is guaranteed to frighten small children and their parents.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MARTIN JACK ROSENBLUM: Swamp River
Brooding Blues about a world that does not add up.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
MARK SCHLAEFER: The Sweet Honey Mead
Personal acoustic blues about my life in the Colorado high country. Even though these songs were written above 9000 feet, they still sound firmly rooted in delta mud.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00