Mae Mercer, blues singer, bar manager Nov 14, 2008
Ms. Mercer performed at the club for eight years, Brown said, with Memphis Slim on piano and Sonny Criss on alto saxophone. She also toured Europe during the summers with the Keith Smith Climax Jazz Band. (Boston Globe)
Pop music: Randy Newman's 'Harps and Angels' a superb effort Aug 8, 2008
Drawing from influences as diverse as Fats Domino and Stephen Foster, Aaron Copland and Professor Longhair, Cole Porter and Memphis Slim, Newman has crafted nine new songs that are earthy and urbane, timely and timeless. (The 10th is a deeply moving, bare-bones remake of Feels Like Home, which Bonnie Raitt sang on the superb 1993 album, Randy Newman's 'Faust. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The homebody Nov 30, 2007
Even the cover of "Lady's Bridge" depicts Hawley at yet another Sheffield institution - the legendary Club 60, where the songwriter's musician father backed blues titans such as John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, and Muddy Waters at the dawn of the early '60s British Beat movement. Hawley credits his father, who died this year, with keeping him grounded, dating back to the days when the fledgling singer-songwriter began performing in Sheffield's working-class pubs at age 14. (Boston Globe)
Rhody royalty kicks off blues series Jul 6, 2007
His newest album is a two-CD set from Stony Plain Records called "World Full of Blues." Robillard writes in the liner notes that he wanted to "record a set of music that touched upon nearly all the areas of blues and blues-related music that make up my sound." Thus, he and his band romp their way through soul, funk, gospel, swing and gut-bucket blues, paying homage along the way to Memphis Slim, Jimmy Reed, T-Bone Walker, Bo Diddley, Booker T and the MGs, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. On this album,... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Starbucks, XM team up on blues CD May 10, 2007
It will include songs from such blues artists as Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry, Odetta, Roosevelt Sykes, Mildred Anderson and Furry Lewis. The CD will be sold at Starbucks stores. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
