SE 4 Ep 14 - Classic Album Feature - Clarence Gatemouth Brown - The Man

 “I am an American world musician, Texas drive.” Brown has roots in the hard-swinging big-band blues ‘n’ boogie he recorded for Aladdin and Peacock in the 40s, but today his music is a kaleidoscope of western swing, Cajun, hard-core country, funk, rock, and jazz. His guitar style still echoes T-Bon…

SE 4 Ep 13 - Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials - Classic Album Feature - Roughousin

“Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials are the hottest purveyors of bottleneck boogie to come out of Chicago since Hound Dog Taylor.” – The Chicago Sun-Times “Raw-boned, old-fashioned Chicago blues has a new young master –Lil’ Ed Williams.” – The New York Times With Lil Ed Williams  enjoying a birthd…

SE 4 Ep 12 Classic Album Feature - John Mooney - Against The Wall

“Mooney is one of a handful of younger blues players who has forged his own style, a jarring juxtaposition of angular Delta guitar and funky New Orleans backbeats. He explores the dark sides of those traditions in Against the Wall, a harrowing and stark work. Mooney's voice and guitar, both quiveri…

SE 4 Ep 11 Women in Blues Special - Marcia Ball - Live! Down the Road

“A welcome ray of sunshine…Ball is a killer pianist, a great singer and songwriter. Potent blues, sweet zydeco, soulful, fast and furious Texas boogie…heartfelt, powerful and righteous.” – Billboard “Rollicking, playful, good-time blues and intimate, reflective balladry…her songs ring with emoti…

SE 4 Ep 10 - BWAF Live Focus - James Harman Band - Strictly Live - '85

“Consisting of tapes recorded live over two nights in March of 1985 at the Belly Up Tavern in Soldano Beach, California, this captures James Harman and one of his best bands in full cry… Harman and the boys kick hard and heavy through half a dozen of his better-known numbers… The guitar interplay…

SE 4 Ep 9 Live Focus - Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets feat. Sam Myers - Live At The Grand Emporium

“Myers is no stranger to irony, as his ballad "Shedding Tears of Laughter" attests, and he covers tunes by Little Walter, B.B. King and Elmore James with considerable authority. Yet it's mostly Funderburgh's far-ranging but always tasteful guitar work -- check out his evocative homages to James, Al…

SE 4 Ep 8 Eric Bibb Interview & Album Feature

“The ultimate “blues brother”, Eric Bibb, is known and revered globally as a fiery singer-songwriter with true soul, grounded in the folk/blues tradition but with contemporary sensibilities. ​ Testament to his endurance as one of the most relevant, leading bluesmen of our time, Eric’s most recent…

SE 4 Ep 7 New Release Feature

I’ve put together a great collection of new release tracks this week. There’s some incredible blues hitting the shelves at the moment and I’m looking forward to blessing your ears with just some of the very best. Featuring songs from the late great James Harman, Jon Cleary, Cedric Burnside, Eric B…

SE 4 Ep 6 Jimmy Rogers Classic Album Feature - Blues Blues Blues

“Jimmy Rogers was very much a musician's musician -- the kind of guitarist that earned accolades from contemporaries and successors alike -- yet one who never wins a wide, mainstream audience. Blues Blues Blues was designed as the album that would find Rogers a larger audience, and as such, it has …

SE 4 Ep 5 - Lou Ann Barton Classic Album Feature

"a set of scorching performances that remind us not of what she might have been, but what she is—a natural-born singer who's learned hard lessons by living them.”                                                             The Rolling Stone Album Guide With legendary Austin Texas based singer Lou…