Blues

• Fantastic Negrito Is True to His Voice with ‘Please Don’t Be Dead’

  12-04-2018 17:30
  The nature of music reviewing is trying to categorize an artist. Comparisons help to give a sense of what an artist sounds like. Conversely, readers are often told that artists “sound like no one else,” which is usually fairly unlikely, unless the artist is performing microtonal bluegrass using a car horn and the cries of a distressed owl. On Please Don’t Be Dead, Fantastic Negrito has a unique sound, not because he sounds like no one else, but because of the way he adeptly fu
  
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• WORLD PREMIERE MUSIC: Mike Zito “First Class Life”

  12-04-2018 16:22
  Mike Zito Photo: Savas Mallotides
  There may not be a more honest bluesman than Mike Zito, whose 15th album First Class Life comes out May 11th on Ruf Records.
  As is fitting for a man with the word “Blues” tattooed across his picking hand, First Class Life focuses squarely on blues with heart and chops to spare, not to mention wit and openness. The rocking yet poignant title track explores his journey from addiction to sobriety and then musical recognition.
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• Lineup Announced for 2018 King Biscuit Blues Festival

  12-04-2018 00:41
  HELENA, AR — The King Biscuit Blues Festival showcases the nation’s foremost Blues music.
  Paul Thorn calls The Biscuit “one of my favorites” and “a wonderful event.” Carolyn Wonderland says it’s like going to Mecca: “You gotta make the pilgrimage because it’s where the music’s real.” Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke looks at the group’s Biscuit date as his job to “make sure we continue to push outwards with our music
  
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