- Curtis Salgado, Damage Control, Alligator
- Selwyn Birchwood, Living in a Burning House, Alligator
- New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers,
Author Archives: Living Blues
Living Blues #271 Top 10 Reviews
DON BRYANT
You Make Me Feel
Fat Possum – FP1747-3
Pressing the play button on a CD player with Don Bryant’s You Make Me Feel is like activating a time machine that takes the listener back to the early 1970s heyday of Memphis soul music in studios like Stax and particularly Hi Records.
LIVING BLUES RADIO CHART FEBRUARY 2021
- Selwyn Birchwood, Living in a Burning House, Alligator
- Curtis Salgado, Damage Control, Alligator
- Veronica Lewis, You Ain’t Unlucky,
Living Blues Radio Chart’s Top 50 Blues Albums 2020
- Roomful of Blues, In a Roomful of Blues, Alligator
- John Primer & Bob Corritore, The Gypsy Woman Told Me,
Living Blues #270 Top 10 Reviews
SONNY GREEN
Found! One Soul Singer
Little Village Foundation – LVF 1037
Although he’s being touted as a soul “discovery,” vocalist Sonny Green hasn’t spent his life languishing in total obscurity.
LIVING BLUES RADIO CHART JANUARY 2021
- Selwyn Birchwood, Living in a Burning House, Alligator
- Shemekia Copeland, Uncivil War, Alligator
- Kim Wilson, Take Me Back!
LIVING BLUES RADIO CHART DECEMBER 2020
- Shemekia Copeland, Uncivil War, Alligator
- John Németh, Stronger Than Strong, Nola Blue
- Kim Wilson, Take Me Back!
Race Relations at the Mother Station
By Michael Streissguth
The violent backlash that program director Chris Spindel feared in 1948 when WDIA shifted to Black-oriented programming never materialized. Although, according to production manager Don Kern,
LIVING BLUES RADIO CHART NOVEMBER 2020
- Shemekia Copeland, Uncivil War, Alligator
- Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite, 100 Years of Blues, Alligator
- John Németh,
Living Blues #269 Top 10 Reviews
SHEMEKIA COPELAND
Uncivil War
Alligator Records – AL 5001
Uncivil War finds Shemekia Copeland holding steady on the course she’s been traveling, melding her bona fide blues roots with various elements that carry her into the realm of what has come to be called Americana;
