Finnish guitarist/singer/songwriter Erja Lyytinen sure does love live albums. This is the fifth (and sixth) collection of concert recordings since 2002s studio debut. Its title, 50th Birthday Live, though indicates why she’s in a celebratory mood. The sprawling package not only contains a double CD/DVD of a 90-minute March 21, 2026 gig in her home turf of Helsinki, but another live disc from Tempo, Finland 2025, featuring some of the same tunes, plus five different ones.
She hasn’t toured America recently (although she went to school here and recorded 2006’s Dreamland Blues in Oxford, Mississippi) but Europeans know Lyytinen as a well-respected, uncompromising, veteran blues rocker. She sings in English, with between-song-patter in her…

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