Fitch Downgrades 6 Classes of COMM 2006-C8; Removes 1 From Watch Negative
Fitch Ratings downgrades, removes from Rating Watch Negative and assigns a Negative Rating Outlook to one class of COMM 2006-C8 Mortgage Trust, commercial mortgage pass-through certificates as follows: –$9.4 …
DOUG MacLEOD: Unmarked Road
This is the last installment of “Thrift Store Finds” for now. I am a compassionate man and will not torture you with too many strange albums…but as you can see there are treasures to be had as well so please enjoy this really fine album by Dubb (his …
Tom Gary Blues Band In The Storm Lake Paper
Yeah! I had another interview! This was with Dana Larson, Editor, of the Pilot Tribune in Storm lake Iowa. I am not sure how long it will be up and online, you can click here for the story or read it below.
Get Tom Gary on stage, and the passion for the music pours out. He and his bandmates rip through classic blues and tight, original stuff with a jumping beat.
Away from the footlights,
In Remembrance 2008 May They Rest In Peace
I hope we don’t have another year like this. The number of blues performers, or people who helped the blues that have left us in 2008 was staggering. It really doesn’t matter how prepared or how much you know that the music we love has a lot of older performers, and this is going to happen it still hurts. I suppose the one advantage of living in the modern world, is that we still have sounds
JD & THE STRAIGHT SHOT: Nothing to Hide
Another segment of “Thrift Store Finds”…Dolan travels from the Garden to Blues Bar with his debut release of Nothing To Hide which combines slow-burning blues (4, 9 and 10) together with ballads (tracks 1, 2, 
and rock songs (3, 5, 7). By night,…
THE REY-NICHOLS SHOVELHEAD BAND: Music from the Canyon
Since the Rey-Nichols Shovelhead Band’s debut album Music from the Canyon contains a number of blues standards peppered with a few original songs, it would be easy to think that’s a straight-ahead, unremarkable blues-rock album. It is true that the …
COZETTE MORGAN: Stay With Me
Cozette Morgan ’s first CD release in 1995 was the album Stay with MeThis is another from the “Thrift Store” purchases that were made yesterday. The genre was marked as blues…it is represented as such on many places online. I disagree with that but…
WOLFE – Why Thank You Very Much: Live at The Bluetone Cafe ‘03 (VBR)
Todd began playing on the New York scene back in 1979 with his band, Troy & the Tornados performing in rooms such as the Lone Star Cafe, The Ritz, My Father’s Place, Lamour’s, The Chance, Tramps, Rodeo Bar and probably any hole in the wall in the N…
IRMA THOMAS: The Story of My Life
Here is the definitive modern Irma Thomas album: great new songs by some of the most talented writers in the business, a band of many of New Orleans’ and Memphis’ best musicians, and vocals that offer an assured and compelling definition of soul. Th…
RAY CHARLES – O Gênio Live in Brazil ‘63 (DVD-Rip)
O Genio: Live in Brazil 1963 is a fairly astonishing document, and an invaluable addition to the catalog of one the great artists of the 20th Century. Here’s Ray Charles, “O Genio” (“The Genius” in Portuguese), 32 years old and in his absolute prime, a…
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