Jack White’s Third Man Records has teamed up with an obscure Scottish label to reissue early blues records. White’s label has partnered with Document Records to reissue the complete works of Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and the Mississippi Sheiks on remastered vinyl. A release date has been set for January 29. “Third Man Records [...]
Early Blues Records Set For Reissue From Rocker Jack White, Scottish Label
January 21, 2013 | Posted by
Gary Clark, Jr.: Blues Brother on a Mission to Make Blues the Hip-Hop Generation Can Appreciate
October 23, 2012 | Posted by
How can a serious bluesman thrive in the age of Auto-Tune? That’s the question Gary Clark Jr. grapples with on his major label debut. Since his teens, Clark has been the young titan of Texas blues, coming out of Austin in the early 2000s with a smoothly long-suffering voice and one hell of a mean [...]
Gary Clark, Jr. Collaboration with Alicia Keys, Crucial to His Crossover Ambitions
September 21, 2012 | Posted by
Gary Clark, Jr., hopes that his major label debut album — “Blak and Blu,” due Oct. 22 on Warner Bros. — will show that he’s more than just another Austin, Texas, guitar slinger with hot chops and fast fingers. “I’ve been associated with the blues guitar guy thing, and that is a major part of [...]
Highway 61: The Blues Highway
June 2, 2012 | Posted by
Highway 61 running south out of Memphis forms a legendary route along the Mississippi River evocative of a delicious slice of Americana represented by a genre of music known as the Delta blues. A road is a road, but sometimes it’s more. Sometimes a road sings. Drive the old Blues Highway—Route 61 between Memphis and [...]
Jazz, Blues, Roots: We Are Handing Our Dazzling Cultural Legacy Over to Europeans and Asians
May 16, 2012 | Posted by
Towards the end of Marley, the new documentary chronicling the brief life and brilliant career of the Jamaican music legend, members of his organization lament the failure of Bob Marley and the Wailers to be embraced by black American audiences. Marley died in 1981 from the melanoma that had spread throughout his body. He was [...]
