It's got a velvety sound. Very beautiful!

Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Zlu_c6hp-iQ

John Fusco’s third recording outing, an authentic, fun, and often hard-hitting collection that, again, demonstrates his unique cinematic style. While still rooted in blues, gospel, and country-rock, Borderlands draws on Fusco’s deep, long-time affinity with the American West. Or as Fusco, himself, puts it: The wild west soul of America.

Cyanide Whiskey

https://www.bisonhip.com/
Following on from 2 tremendously well-received EP releases, Bison Hip return with their upcoming album, ‘Older Stronger Better’, featuring the singles ‘Doghouse ‘ & ‘Stronger’. ‘We’ve been working towards this album since we formed during the lockdown’ explains vocalist Paul. Formed by long-time friends during a lockdown Zoom call in 2020, 4 of the 5 members are over 50. “We wanted the album to reflect where we are in our lives, we’re definitely getting on a bit, but life experience has made us stronger than ever, and I think we’re on top of our game”. Continuing the ethos of real songs played by real musicians, the album is filled with those life experiences. ‘The songs are full of pain, loss, failure, disappointment, but also joy, excitement, and lots of hope. We’re getting older, but the best years aren’t behind us, they’re still to come, and we wanted that feeling in the music’. The band are looking forward to an exciting year, with live shows across the UK. ‘We’re ready to get out there and show people what we’re all about’ adds Paul. ‘It’s taken us a long time to get here, we’ve arrived fashionably late, but the wait has been worth it’. A collection of powerful songs, telling real stories, forged in the band’s hometown of Glasgow, ‘Older Stronger Better’ announces the complete arrival of Bison Hip as a unique blues rock band ready to make their mark.

Older Stronger Better

Bison Hip - This Old City

https://www.rayfuller.com/
The Ray Fuller Band was formed in 1974, evolving into Ray Fuller and the Bluesrockers in 1978, releasing a self-titled album on vinyl, and Fuller has not looked back since. Mastering his craft throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Fuller was quick to become the “go to” act throughout Ohio to open for iconic blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy and more.

MUDDY WATERS after witnessing an opening act performance by Fuller exclaimed for all to hear, “That was some hot slide boy, I could smell the smoke backstage!”

JOHN LEE HOOKER was so impressed that he took Ray Fuller as his special guest at his next show! Fuller released Something Shakin’ in 1984 and Damn Guitars in 1989, which was quick to become a top seller for Rounder Records, followed by Ray Fuller and the Bluesrockers Live in 1992. In 1995, touring paused with the demise of Fuller’s first marriage which ended in true blues fashion.

Fuller went on to release Pearlene in 1997, Twist of Fate in 1999, and in 2003 Live Rockin’ the Blues. In 2010, Fuller played his first overseas show at the Vodacom Ampitheatre in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and began focusing on his passion for slide guitar, playing in his own style which has been compared to and inspired by Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor and even Earl Hooker (cousin of John Lee Hooker). Fuller found himself in demand with renewed focus on his unique style of “Rockin’ Slide Guitar Blues,” playing major blues festivals in the USA, Canada and Europe. In 2011, Fuller released Piece of Work on the Azuretone Record Label. In 2014 Fuller had the rare honor of recording Ray Fuller and the Bluesrockers LIVE at Buddy Guy’s Legends. In 2014 and 2016 Fuller crisscrossed Europe, with audiences demanding as many as five encores! In 2016, Fuller released Long Black Train in Europe a month early to coincide with his Europe Tour; its official release was in October 2016. Ray Fuller and the Bluesrockers’ new release, PAY THE PRICE on Azuretone Records, has a release date of May 28, 2019. Pay The Price shows promise to be the crown jewel of Fuller’s 40-year career. Pre-release reviews have called it “outstanding,” praising Fuller’s seasoned, clear vocals and tight rhythm section while, as American Blues Scene put it “leaving listeners both breathless and thirsty for more!

Pay The Price

Ray Fuller & The Bluesrockers - Mean And Evil Woman

During part of the 1970s and 1980s, he lived in California and performed with many stars such as Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Janis Joplin, Ted Nugent, Iggy Pop, Kenny Rogers, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Johnny Winter and many others. His autobiography explains how he entered the music business and how he got his nickname, the "Reverend" Marc Falconberry.
Marc's Musical Memoirs : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3s_uN55USPaNsScDjAL9dA
https://www.facebook.com/people/Rev-Marc-Falconberry/
https://revmarcfalconberry1.bandcamp.com/

Irreverend Blues

Rev Marc Falconberry - Back Down In The Bottle

https://www.granvilpoynter.com/
Quietly working under the radar is how one friend describes Granvil Poynter and his music. But he has not gone unnoticed! He has won best blues artist in the San Antonio music awards. Billy F. Gibbons has tapped him for shows with ZZ Top and for Mr. Gibbon’s solo tour. With the release of his new album “Cigarettes and Gin” maybe it’s time the world took notice of this San Antonio musician! Only time will tell.

Cigarettes and Gin

Granvil Poynter - Cigarettes and Gin

lbum: I'll Take The Long Road https://www.epikparadox.com/  Available on all major streaming platforms, Heavyweight 180g Vinyl LP and CD.
Singer, songwriter and guitar player Epi K. Paradox, originally from Chania, Crete, an island in the south of Greece, traded the sun-soaked Mediterranean to pursue his music career in London. Taking inspiration from the British Blues Explosion of the late 60s and early 70s, Epi K. Paradox creates his own brand of contemporary Blues music, while remaining faithful to Rhythm and Blues tradition. His music influences reminisce the roaring guitar riffs of Buddy Guy, Mike Bloomfield, Jimmy Page and Roy Buchanan, while his songwriting skills reflect on the revival sound of the Blues era.
After graduating from BIMM London and London College of Music in 2017 and 2018 respectively, Epi K. Paradox has performed in various venues in London including the O2 Academy, The Monarch, St Moritz Club and Fiddler's Elbow, just to name a few.


Guitar & Vocals: Epi K. Paradox 
Hammond Organ: Dimitris Dimopoulos 
Bass: Jon Mapp 
Drums: Lorenzo Riessler 
Recorded at Buffalo Studios in London. Mixed & Produced by JB Pilon. 
Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Sean Magee.

I'll Take The Long Road

Epi K. Paradox - Love Is A Losing Game

Album: The Originals |  https://www.reverbnation.com/victorla... 
Established about eight years ago and led by Lawson, the tight three-man band take their name from the song, “Boogie Chillen,’” which was made famous by late Delta blues icon, John Lee Hooker.

“We play a lot of blues,” said Lawson, befitting his band’s name. “But at a lot of the places we play we have to play classic rock and country, too, so people can dance.”

Despite his love of original music, Lawson allows that he and Boogie Chillen may summon no more than a trio of originals during any given performance.

“We do one called ‘Hammer,’ which is a blues-based rock song,” Lawson said. “We have one called ‘Back to Alabama,’ which I play with a slide guitar. Mostly wherever we play we’re expected to play covers, but every now and then we’ll throw an original into the show.”

Now, Lawson certainly neither qualifies nor touts himself as a long-suffering Delta blues musician a la John Lee Hooker or Robert Johnson. He’s an art teacher at Richlands Middle School.

However, he plays a wicked Fender Stratocaster, with which he rocks from a base forged in the blues. Include him more within the school of blues in terms of style that yielded Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jonny Lang than Muddy Waters and Elmore James.

“It’s definitely more of a blues-based sound,” Lawson said. “Even when we play classic rock or country, you’ll hear that blues influence. One of my favorites was Stevie Ray Vaughan, but I love the old guys like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, too.”

Fittingly, Lawson and Boogie Chillen band mates Don Armstrong (bass) and Andrew Brown (drums) are apt to summon such blues staples as the Willie Dixon-written, Muddy Waters-performed “Hoochie Coochie Man.” Listen for Elmore James’ “Shake Your Moneymaker” alongside Vaughan’s “Texas Flood” and “Pride and Joy.”

“We do quite a bit of ZZ Top and Jimi Hendrix,” Lawson said. “I like to do things that nobody else does.”

As such, Lawson prefers to apply his own stamp upon tunes obscure and otherwise.

“We kind of make them our own,” Lawson said. “I never really play anything exactly like the records. Then I never play it the same way twice. We just take the music and go with it.”
Written by: Robert McGraw 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND

The Originals

Victor Lawson & Boogie Chillen - Suitcase Full Of Blues

Album:  Language Of Your Soul - https://robinbibiband.co.uk/ Lyrics: 
I’m listening to the sound of the rain 
That lonesome sound against my window pain 
Yeah yeah, like I cried over you 
World keeps turning, 
And I got these Up All Night Vampire Blues 

Can’t sleep In the night 
Got to keep myself out of sight of the light 
Yeah , keeps me from crying about you 
World keeps turning 
I got these Up All Night Vampire Blues 

Been so long , I’m not free 
Your Devil spell’s still got its hooks here in me
Yeah yeah , the nights are so long and blue
World keeps turning 
I got these Up All Night Vampire Blues 

Another Sleepless nights passed by 
I’m so tired of this feeling, I wish I could die 
Oh yeah , I know you got your troubles too 
The world keeps turning 
I got these Up All Night Vampire Blues 
( I’m howling at the moon ! ) 

The Robin Bibi Band was born in the late 90s when Robin was inspired to start his own Texas Style Blues/ Rock band after having worked as a session man with such arists as the Pretty Things, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Ben E. King and Helen Shapiro to name but a few.

The Band released their debut Album “Blue Thrash Therapy” in late 1997. Mainly blues standards with a couple of notable original songs thrown in. This album received AirPlay straight away from Paul Jones in his Jazz FM show and the band started to become popular in the live circuit. The follow up, “Language of Your Soul”, a work of mainly original material, was released to more critical acclaim in 2000. Since then – and 8 more albums and a DVD later – the Robin Bibi Band have established themselves as one of the UK’s hardest working and most popular bands in their genre and Robin had been widely recognised as one of the UK’s finest Blues / Rock guitarists!

The band have played all the major UK blues festivals and have toured in Europe, Ireland, Scandinavia and the USA! Robin is at present signed to Ashwood Records and has recently released what’s considered to be his best album yet “No More A Secret”, the first album of exclusively Robin Bibi originals. This album received rave reviews and extensive AirPlay including considerable airings on BBC Radio 2. It peaked at number 2 in the IBBA playlist.

Robin has been nominated by the British Blues awards in several categories and won an award for best Guitar Solo from the WRC! The band continue their never ending mission to spread their own personal brand of music and to entertain and lift the spirits of their audiences ..

Language Of Your Soul

Robin Bibi – Up All Night Vampire Blues

Texas Minded

Love That Burns

Mean Blues
Feel this is the end for me
Mean Blues
Feel this is the end for me
Cruel world pulling me down
It’s making it hard, tomorrow to see
Three days I haven’t heard from my girl
You know something’s wrong
Three days I haven’t heard from my girl
You know something’s wrong
She left me for another
There’s a hole now where my heart belongs
There’s no use of me searching
I gotta let that girl go
There’s no use of me searching
I gotta let that girl go
There’s nothing for her to come back to
Mean blues got me sinkin’ too low
Drown my sorrows with a bottle
Until I lose my mind
Drown my sorrows with a bottle
Until I lose my mind
They can drag the bottom of the East River
That’s where my heartache they’ll find

    Bass – Brad Vickers
    Drums – Michael Fox (4)
    Engineer, Mixed By – Glen Forrest, Ronen Barak
    Guitar – Zach Zunis
    Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Producer, Mixed By – Joel Poluck
    Harmonica – Anthony Kane, George Beckett
    Organ – George PapaGeorge
    Vocals – Floyd Lee

Mean Blues

Paris nineteen fifty-six, number nine rue Git le Coeur
Word is out and everybody′s beating on the door
Madame Rachou will let you in, just smile and ring the bell
Welcome to Nirvana at the Beat hotel
The sweet smell of Pernod, a Gauloise cigarette
It's a cosmic congregation but you ain′t seen nothing yet
It's an open invitation, an existential clientele
All looking for Nirvana at the Beat hotel
They looked for it in New York City and San Francisco Bay
They looked for in bebop jazz and it blew them all away
They tried out every avenue and then said "What the hell,
We'll look for it in Paris at the Beat hotel"
Burroughs came up from Tangiers, Ginsberg from New York
Kerouac came up from Italy and slept out in the park
Gregory Corso came and went and where he′s at no one can tell
He′s still looking for Nirvana at the Beat hotel
Take me to your leader, take me to the man
Someone has got the answer, someone's got the perfect plan
If you′re looking in the alleys, if you're looking in the bars
You′ll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars
This ragged band of poets, Christians, Buddhists, Jews
A new Beat generation searching for the Muse
Some found it in the arms of a mystic mademoiselle
Looking for Nirvana at the Beat hotel
The rooms count up to forty-one, but you can sleep out in the hall
For a few centimes you can get a drink and write your poems on the wall
And the marijuana mixes with the Tukish toilet smell
It's all part of Nirvana at the Beat hotel
Alex Campbell strums an old guitar someone picked up in Spain
Ginsberg′s howling poetry and Kerouac's drunk again
The rent is overdue there must be something they can sell
Maybe they can sell Nirvana at the Beat Hotel
Someone's taking photographs, Janine takes off her clothes
Marlene′s meditating and concentrating on her toes
Jasmine hides in room sixteen and curls up in her shell
She′s communing with Nirvana at the Beat Hotel
Take me to your leader, take me to the man
Someone has got the answer, someone's got the perfect plan
If you′re looking in the alleys, if you're looking in the bars
You′ll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars
They did it for the journey and not for getting there
Fame is in a whisper when you pay the taxi fare
It's just this side of Heaven and a long, long way from Hell
It′s somewhere in Nirvana at the Beat Hotel
Nothing lasts forever, and forever's in a rhyme
It's a Buddha-like connection and everybody has their time
If you want to drink the water you′ve got to dig into the well
Maybe then you′ll find Nirvana at the Beat Hotel
It was over by nineteen sixty-three and everyone had gone
But they'd opened up the road and the revolution was getting won
When the poems were painted over and they rang the final bell
It was goodbye to Nirvana at the Beat Hotel
The myth is stronger than the truth, and truth can sometimes lie
To see it all for what it was you need an uncorrupted eye
Was the journey worth it, only time will tell
Still looking for Nirvana, at the Beat Hotel
Take me to your leader, take me to the man
Someone has got the answer, someone′s got the perfect plan
If you're looking in the alleys, if you′re looking in the bars
You'll find us in the gutter, looking at the stars
Looking at the stars
We′re looking at the stars


Allan Taylor: vocal, guitar.
Chris Jones: guitar
Lutz Möller: piano
Beo Brockhausen: sax, percussion, autoharp, accordion, kantele
Hans-Jörg Maucksch: fretless bass
Grischka Zepf: electric bass
Nils Tuxen: pedal-steel
Martin Huch: dobro (manzanita)
Thomas Klippel: Hammond B3
Siard de Jong: violin, viola
Simone Mittelbach: violoncello
Thomas Körber: e-guitar
Christine Maringer-Tries: harmony voc.
Christiane Eiben: harmony voc.

All songs written by Allan Taylor
Produced and recorded by Günther Pauler
Mastered by Hans-Jörg Maucksch
Photography & design: Manfred Pollert

The Beat Hotel

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