b. 9 Feb 1937, Winnsboro, Tx, USA, d. 17 August 1993, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Sayles was probably among the finest ‘tough-soul’ performers of the initial (early 60s) spirit era, and many of his recordings for George Leaner’s Chicago-based Mar-V-Lus label are as powerful and informing as anything documented undoubtedly better-known …

Pronounced ‘Loo Ga Roo’, which translates through the Creole term for ‘folkloric werewolves’, this NY, USA centered group mine musical territory in the classic Cajun tradition, up to date through their brutal employment of traditional instruments and contemporary technology: ‘Our music is approximately celebration’, is the way they themselves surmise …

Tx guitarist Gary Clark, Jr. continues to be compared to electric guitar symbols like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and his performing is a robust and inspired mixture of blues, modern spirit, and hip-hop, so when he’s rolling at his greatest, he appears like nothing a lot as an …

After an extended amount of struggle, Kris Kristofferson achieved remarkable success being a country songwriter in the beginning of the 1970s. His music “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Help Me Make It During the night,” “Weekend Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” and “For the nice Situations,” all chart-topping strikes, helped redefine nation songwriting, …

Marblehead, Massachusetts-based songstress Jeanie Stahl was over the crest of the promising solo profession, in 1983, whenever a tragic blowing wind surfing incident prevented her from executing for just two years. Although she acquired simply released her debut single record, I’m Simply Fooling Myself, Stahl was still left curing her …

After his stints performing as Palace, Palace Songs, Palace Brothers, and under his own name through the entire ’90s, by the finish from the decade Will Oldham appeared to finally choose the Bonnie “Prince” Billy moniker because the main outlet for his function. Whatever the name he utilized release a …

Billy Novick may be the penultimate woodwind and reeds player. Similarly comfy playing traditional Irish folk music (for the pennywhistle), New Orleans jazz (on clarinet and soprano sax), straight-ahead jazz, golf swing (on alto and soprano saxophones), and acoustic folk music (on clarinet and saxophone), Novick offers maintained a apparently …

Can Oldham, the brains and brawn in back of releases mainly because Palace Brothers, Palace Tracks, Palace Music, and basic Palace, is loosely grouped using the ’90s anti-folk motion that also contains Expenses Callahan of Smog, a labelmate of Oldham’s about Chicago’s Drag Town Records. Often recognised incorrectly as an …