It took Tinsley Ellis 40 years to get around to it, but, for his 21st album, the blues singer-songwriter and guitarist—who long ago established himself as one of the consummate badasses of the genre—has made a solo acoustic album. Naked Truth is the perfect title for it too because Ellis, who has never resorted to […]
Maximum Swing is the sixth collection of previously unreleased material by the groundbreaking jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery to be issued by the indie Resonance Records—the campaign was launched in 2012 with Echoes of Indiana Avenue and has yet to run out of gas. This newest entry serves as something of a companion piece to two […]
As their 14 months of touring together as a duo winds down, Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton gave the sold-out Narrows every resounding reason to want this partnership to live on. Supporting their Grammy-nominated Death Wish Blues, the two in black tore through over 90 minutes of blues and rock, saturated in guitar and soul-drenched […]
