If there was any question young blues rocking guitarist Gabe Stillman would progress from his impressive 2018 debut Nighthawks-assisted EP, it was demonstrably answered in the affirmative with his first full length album.
Stillman proved that his vocal, instrumental and most importantly compositional talents were more than ready for prime time on 2019s extraordinary Just Say the Word, one of the finest offerings from a new talent that year, and a Top 10 entry on Billboard’s blues chart.
Five years, one label change and a few hundred live dates later, he returns with the terrific What Happens Next?. It’s worth noting that most of the supporting musicians contributing to Stillman’s first Vizztone release – notably…
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Blues singer-songwriter and guitarist 
Paul Carrack is releasing a concert album recorded at Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 24, 2024, in celebration of 50 years of his first hit, “How Long,” recorded with Ace in 1974.
The initial plan for guitarist 
Dr. John – 
Before his career as a singer, songwriter, and recording artist took off, 
…include two live bonus tracks.
For 
Mike Finnigan: if you know you know, and if you don’t, you probably know Electric Ladyland. In June 1968, The Jimi Hendrix Experience were booked into New York’s Record Plant, as were The Serfs from Wichita, Kansas, cutting their only album, The Early Bird Café. “Jimi happened to hear us and said he’d like to have us play on his record,” the Hammond B-3 maestro Mike Finnigan told MOJO in 2008. “Jimi was very easy-going, very loose. His notion was the Jimmy Smith organ quartet with a different kind of slant, and we jammed it down on the spot. If I’d had any sense I’d have got some writer’s credit on that Rainy Day deal. And I never got paid for the session, by God!”
There have been a few singles from the UK band, Wille and Bandits, shared on this site that have drawn enthusiastic responses. Let’s fill in some blanks, now that their new album, Salt Roots, has arrived. The band hails from Cornwall, a place that almost feels like the Deep South of the UK, rural, coastal, variable weather, and a place that prides itself on rugged individualism. The band’s live shows have audiences abuzz.
Too many blues and blues-rock guitarists try to impress their audiences by playing a blazing series of multiple notes, yet fail to make a statement. San Diego-based, BMA Award winner Laura Chavez, on the other hand, manages to consistently ‘say something.’ There simply are not many guitarists who stand side by side with the great Ronnie Earl and earn his respect like Chavez.
Milwaukee’s Altered Five Blues Band is nearing the quarter-century mark and returns with their eighth studio album, Hammer & Chisel. The multiple BMA nominees are one of the most dependable, hard-driving blues units on the scene. Once again, Tom Hambridge is in the producer’s chair for the sixth consecutive time. As such, the album was recorded in Nashville. Principal songwriter and guitarist Jeff Schroedl is now the head of Blind Pig Records, the band’s label for nearly the past decade.
One glance at the credits to Nashville by-way-of Canada guitarist 
The lineage of Chicago blues slide guitarists runs from Elmore James to Hound Dog Taylor to J.B. Hutto to Lil’ Ed Williams. Williams’ career, at 49+ years, is the longest of any. Of course, many of you know that he learned his trade from “Uncle J.B” Hutto. Williams’ band, The Blues Imperials, has been together for an astounding 38 years, unheard of for a blues unit. Not only that, but they are the longest continual entity in the Alligator catalog. Other artists joined the label before 1986, but they had stints at other labels before returning to Alligator. Slideways is the band’s tenth album for the label.
It’s not clear how many albums veteran guitarist and occasional songwriter