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JOHN "BLUES" BOYD

"The real deal"
“...if you're in the mood for something lowdown / you want some blues you can really feel / you don't have to look no further people / because I am the real deal...”.

This quotation, extracted from the refrain of the homonym opening tune that, as a couple of others included here, come out directly from Rick Estrin’s witty pen, insists on the self-celebratory, and recurrent in the blues, concept of real deal....

JANIVA MAGNESS

"Love wins again"

Today, much of what is passed off as soul or pseudo-soul, as a matter of fact, it is often a hybrid that brushes up well more easily the fields of pop music, rather that other musical genres.

After a superficial and hasty listening, some of the tunes included in this cd could suffer the fate of being really confined in this implicitly discredited category. And after a superficial listening.....

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BIG JON ATKINSON & BOB CORRITORE

"House party at Big Jon's"

A sincere, intrepid juke joint atmosphere permeates the whole brand new cd of the young and giant Big Jon Atkinson. Young but well-up on this subject, he recalls the ancient splendors of the blues, supported by a small combo in which stands out the presence of harp player Bob Corritore, who’s co-holder of the recordings.....

GREGG MARTINEZ

"Soul of the bayou"

With Soul Of The Bayou, Gregg Martinez probably realizes his more finished and focused recording. Next worthy candidate to be included in the group of all those masculine voices comfortably placed on the intersection between soul and R&B, he shows here all of his versatility as a singer and performer.....

Frank Frost
(1992: photo Giovanni Robino)

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Marsico-Federighi-Viale

Located in the suggestive frame of Villa Gropella's garden in Valenza Po (Italy) the concert-reading we have assisted finds position in the amplest and, by now, decennial review Parole e Musica in Monferrato, artistically directed by Enrico Deregibus....

Guitar Ray & the Gamblers

we are in Gavi (Italy) and, few days after their concert with Otis Grand in Novi Ligure, we find Guitar Ray & the Gamblers once again, but this time in blessed loneliness. The delicious frame is the one of Agorà, but the weather doesn't grant, contrarily to what was planned, the possibility to play in the bordering square....

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DAVID "HONEYBOY" EDWARDS: I'M GONNA TELL YOU SOMETHIN' THAT I KNOW

a Jeff Dale film - CD e DVD

Pro Sho Bidness - 2016

David "Honeyboy" Edwards is just like a centuries-old tree. Under the shade of its branches and close to its trunk so much life has gone by and so many fellow musicians have found refuge to make this man what he has really been: the precious witness of almost a whole century of blues history....

JOHNNY WINTER: DOWN & DIRTY
a Greg Olliver's film
Secret Weapon Films - 2016

Johnny Winter passed away in the 2014. In his own personal way he’s been a legend, before on the rock side of the genre and then, on the crossing between the '70s with the '80s, he’s been like a sacred icon of the blues, after the definitive legitimateness consequent to his entry in the Muddy Waters Band as official member....

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Randy McAllister

Drummer, harp player, singer and original songwriter, East Texas bluesman Randy McAllister boasts an outstanding career and a bunch of excellent records. We've had a little talk after the issue of his last, beautiful cd Fistful of Gumption. What follows if the conversation he has granted (thanks to Frank Roszak) to Macallè Blues....

Bob Trenchard

Bass player, songwriter, producer and boss of one of the contemporary most distinctive soul-blues label, Catfood Records, Bob Trenchard talks to Macallè Blues....

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July 25th, 2016: Fabrizio Poggi's 20th album, Texas Blues Voices, is scheduled to be released on September 2016....

May 16th, 2016: Billy Price and Otis Clay win Blues Music Award: This Time for Real named Best Soul Blues Album of 2015. These are Price's words:....