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Lightnin' Gone Bluesville
You can't tell that the early 1960s were a time of such tumultuous change (in society and music) from the rock-solid, timeless sound of Lightnin' Hopkins' The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings (Prestige, 1991), a seven-CD box which presents more than 100 songs that this Texas blues legend recorded for these two labels between 1960 and 1964.... MORE
Blues Surprise
Karrin Allyson was at the top of her game when she recorded her first blues album, In Blue, in early 2002. That wonderful, occasionally throaty voice of hers -- touchingly vulnerable yet sure and confident, always mellifluous and at ease, and musical as all get out -- was emanating with that undefinable mix of outer beauty and inner knowing that have earned her, to this date, four Grammy nominations.... MORE
Vinyl to Vinyl
Rhythm and blues singer Shirley Brown scored big with her first single, 1974's "Woman To Woman," the title track from her first album which, amazingly for a debut, reached the Top 20 on the Pop charts and #1 in R&B. And Stax recently re-released Woman To Woman in vinyl format.... MORE
