One day, a black man in a feathered Indian headdress and four white guys in masks of Mexican wrestlers met... It sounds like the beginning of an unfunny joke or a forbidden fairy tale for…
Hot Chickens – Rock’n’roll Vendetta (2025): Old Monsieur’s…
R means a rooster! V means vendetta! Moreover, the rooster is exclusively Gallic. But with the letter R, everything is much more interesting. These are "rock and roll", and "rockabilly" and even "rhythm and blues".…
White Buffalo – A Freight Train Through the…
Live albums are an ambiguous matter. For a huge category of listeners, concertgoers, along with singles, compilations and tributes, are sent to the category of optional bonuses: you can listen to all this, but only…
The Maple Blues Band – Let’s Go: Maple…
Old people don't belong here. This is a place for mature gentlemen who know their business. Canada is a province torn between two hegemons: the British Crown has formal power over it, and the United…
Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven: Eleven Lives on…
Dave Alvin, born on 11/11/1955, recorded his eleventh solo album with the characteristic name Eleven Eleven in 2011. In numerology, the prime number 11 is considered very powerful, but we will leave such interpretations to…
Imelda May – 11 Past The Hour (2021):…
Ireland is an island green with the magic of the Hill People, full of the manuscripts of great writers. The island of the first slaves of the British Empire, the explosions in Ulster and Catholic…
In memory of Dusty Hill
This story is as old as a turtle in a New York sewer: in the sixties, walking with long hair in Texas meant learning a cartoon ostrich run from local coyotes. Contrary to the opinion…
Tami Nielson – Chikaboom Deluxe (2021): The Booming…
"A bootleg full of surprises" is what you can call this boot-shaped island state in Oceania, although some prefer the traditional New Zealand. Maori dance brutally here, Kiwis sneak mercilessly at the worm in the…
Dion – Blues With Friends (2020): one hundred…
Paul McCartney is dead. That's what Tim Harper said in 1969. And even Paul found it difficult to get away with it: there are dozens of proofs of this on the cover of Sergeant Pepper.…
Crossroads (1986) or How to Become a Bluesman
I really like it when in one work of art you can find small references to another creation of mankind - and you walk along them, as if on bread crumbs, from one island of…
J. D. McPherson – Signs And Significators, Honest…
J.D. McPherson is a heroic guy. For the root music of Americana with a mix of blues and rockabilly, he is like Tom Petty for country rock, embodying honesty and uncompromising. He can be serious…
The Gun Club – Lucky Jim (1993), a…
The band The Gun Club from Los Angeles is considered to belong to the punk scene. It's also common to think that punks don't play their instruments well, in particular guitars, and in general, if…
Blue & Lonesome (2016) – The Rolling Stones…
I think the Rolling Stones are an overrated band. I think the Beatles are an overrated band. That's the kind of terrible person I am. The best work of these two and many other bands…