- Chris Cain, Raisin’ Cain, Alligator
- Curtis Salgado, Damage Control, Alligator
- Damon Fowler, Alafia Moon,
Author Archives: Living Blues
Living Blues 2021 Festival Guide
LIVING BLUES RADIO CHART MARCH 2021
- Curtis Salgado, Damage Control, Alligator
- Selwyn Birchwood, Living in a Burning House, Alligator
- New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers,
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,
