Masters of The Tele Promises Guitar Lover’s Heaven
The Masters of Tele concert at Cohoes Music Hall Saturday night (September 21) is likely to go down as one of the best concerts of the year. Jim Weider, G. E. Smith, and Duke…
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Don Wilcock was nominated for Music Journalist of the Year in the 2019 inaugural Capital Region Eddies Awards. He began writing about music for The Army Reporter at U.S. Army Headquarters, Vietnam. He’s written columns for NYS Music, Metroland, The Saratogian, and The Troy Record; and edited several music magazines including King Biscuit Times, BluesPrint and Blues Wax. He wrote Buddy Guy’s authorized biography Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues, and his interviews with more than 6000 artists from Jerry Garcia and James Brown to Derek Trucks have appeared in publications around the world.
Blues Rocker Albert Cummings Signs with A Major Label
Provogue Records has announced that blues-rocker Albert Cummings of Williamstown, Massachusetts has just signed with the label, part of the Mascot Records Group whose artists…
Johnny Sansone Steals the Show at Chenango Blues Fest
They used to call him Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone. At 62, this former athlete who won a college scholarship based on his swimming prowess no longer jumps around on stage, but,…
Bucolic Bliss: Tab Benoit, Joe Louis Walker and Mississippi Heat at 2019 Chenango Blues Fest August…
While there are hundreds of blues festivals throughout the world, The Blues Festival Guide lists only five in New York State. The Chenango Blues Festival south of Albany in…
LIVE: Thornetta Davis – A Mid-summer Night’s Dream @ Music Haven Stage 8/4/2019
A perfect night!
A crescent moon shone down on a full house captured in a fairy tale come to life at a time when our country has become as dangerous as Vietnam a…
LIVE: Rory Block’s Blues and Gospel Fest; Spiritual Nirvana as Blues and Gospel Combine 7/26-28/2019
Both blues and gospel share an ability to bleed emotion all over the stage and pierce an audience’s collective heart. The catharsis for both the audience and the performer…
The Queen of Detroit Blues Thornetta Davis plays Schenectady’s Central Park
We love labels like "Queen of the Blues". They sell tickets and conjure images in our minds of what to expect. But Thornetta’s back story is so much more than that label…
LIVE: Feel Good Blues from Taj Mahal 7/20/2019
It’s not his eclecticism which may be unparalleled in blues that defines Taj Mahal for me. And It’s not his acumen on stringed instruments ranging from National steel guitar…