Robert Parker’s Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo

John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Padlock on the Blues (Purple Pyramid)

John Mayall is certainly one of the most accomplished bandleaders in blues history, a veteran of scores of albums who’s consistently put together interesting and musically sophisticated bands. The current […]

Lucky Peterson, Lucky Peterson (Blue Thumb)

Wilson Pickett, It’s Harder Now (Bullseye)

Imagine if Aretha Franklin went back into the studio and made an album as good as, say, Aretha Now? Imagine what Otis Redding might be doing had he not gone […]

Ruben Blades

George Porter, Jr.: Here Comes the Meter Man

George Porter, Jr. is one of the most influential rhythm and blues players from the post-1950s generation of musicians that engineered the revolution in soul music that became known as […]

Cajun, Not Crossover

"I don’t have any gold records on my wall, but I’m proud of my music," said one of New Orleans’ underrated musical treasures, Bruce Daigrepont. Daigrepont’s Sunday Fais Do Do […]

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Buck Jump (Mammoth)

Jay McShann, Still Jumpin’ the Blues (Stony Plain)

Louis Prima, Say It With A Slap (Buddha)