The Blues File from WXPN Podcast
The Blues File from WXPN, a weekly Blues profile on the genre's most important artists new and old.
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John Lee Hooker, Jr. "All Odds Against Me"
John Lee Hooker, Jr.'s new album "All Odds Against Me" offers volcanic emotion, telling observation, and incisive wit — qualities rarely found on recent blues releases.
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Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
The Folkways label brought the music of many blue artists to new listeners and larger audiences. This collection of blues piano music by such greats as Meade "Lux" Lewis, Memphis Slim, and Speckled Red, is an excellent sampler of the large body of piano blues that Folkways recorded in the 1940s, 195 …
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Tomcat Courtney debuts at age 79
If you can play the blues, you're never too old to make your debut album. 79-year-old Tomcat Courney has been a fixture on the San Diego blues scene since the 1960's. Now he reaches out to the wider world with an enteryaining album called "Downsville Blues."
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Kenny Neal "Let Life Flow"
Kenny Neal comes from a big musical family from Baton Rouge. A set of family tragedies, notably the murder of his sister a few years ago, underlies his new album "Let Life Flow," his first album in five years.
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Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials "Full Tilt"
"Full Tilt" is the seventh album from Chicago's Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials. Ed Williams, known as Lil' Ed because of his diminutive stature, is one of the leading blues slide guitarists, schooled by his late uncle J. B. Hutto. This album includes a few very strong songs, and a good number of unex …
The Blues File from WXPN Podcast
