Contemporary Blues: Best Sellers

Danny Kalb was the bluesiest member of the Blues Project, the seminal Greenwich Village band of the mid-'60s that helped usher in the blues-rock era. A stunning [more]

Corey Harris takes a decidedly anthropological and academic approach to the blues, deeply researching its variants and origins, even making several trips to Africa to trace out its DNA [more]

Escape from the Chicken Coop is a departure of sorts for Watermelon Slim (Bill Homans), with Slim working with musicians outside of his band, the [more]

Big Bill Morganfield continues to forge his own sound with a delicate balancing act on this, his forth album. He pays tribute to his dad and the Chicago sound he helped create on [more]

Guitarist Sue Foley sent a demo tape of herself to Antone's Records in 1990, and the label quickly saw her potential and signed her to a recording contract. A debut [more]

Otis Taylor doesn't suffer fools lightly, and his songs are full of defiant reclamations of history and tender vignettes of people struggling to survive in hostile [more]

Whenever a new music group comprised of teens (or even pre-teens) appears on the scene, it's sure to be met with a degree of skepticism. After all, for every [more]

A lot of interesting things have been written about Fiona Boyes, but one of the most attention-grabbing came from Midwest Record Recap -- which said that the Australian singer/guitarist [more]

Although in some respects Lay Your Burden Down is exactly the kind of record one would expect from Buckwheat Zydeco (Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr.) at this point -- upbeat [more]

Rounder's Perfect 10 Series compiles recycled tracks taken from Ted Hawkins' stint with the label from 1982 to 1985. The ten tracks are taken from his [more]

A quick sampler of Duke Robillard's blues-based work with Rounder Records, this set teases more than it delivers, and one misses the more swing and [more]

Rounder's Perfect 10 Series compiles recycled tracks taken from Ruth Brown's short stint with the label in 1997 and 1998. The ten tracks are taken from her two [more]

Blues man Roy Rogers released breakthrough recordings Slidewinder and Blues on the Range in his early days for the Blind Pig label, and returns to their stable of artists with his [more]

This is slide guitar wizard Sonny Landreth's most ambitious work, and true to form it comes with no glossy fanfare (even the packaging is sepia tinted), just straight-ahead, [more]

Shirley Johnson has toiled regularly in Chicago nightspots for decades, and follows up her successful Delmark CD Killer Diller with this set of originals and soul standards, [more]