Pee Wee Crayton, a popular L.A.-based blues singer and guitarist, recorded frequently between 1947-57 but this 1970 session was his first full album and ended an eight-year drought in the studios. At 55, Crayton performed some country-flavored tunes and soul ballads but is at his best on the simpler straightahead blues such as a spirited "Let the Good Times Roll," the atmospheric instrumental "Blues After Hours," "Things I Used to Do" and "S.K. Blues" which at 6:24 is easily the longest performance of the brief 41-minute set. Although not a major stylist, Crayton is in good form throughout his date.

This collection contains eight of the very finest original albums by Hampton Hawes, consisting of more than five hours of music celebrating his work. Among the finest and most influential bebop and hard-bop pianists of the 1950s, Hampton Hawes' impeccable sense of timing, swing and expression left a permanent mark on the entire jazz genre. With a sound that drew heavily on that of Earl Hines and other leading players from an earlier time, Hawes also blended elements of blues and gospel into his style while employing the technique of using his right hand to emulate horn lines. This unorthodox approach was later popular with a number of esteemed pianists who followed Hawes, including Horace Silver, Oscar Peterson and André Previn.

This 4CD set brings together Wanda Jackson's most popular recordings made between 1954 and 1965 in a comprehensive compilation of her finest work Born in October 1937, Wanda Jackson, a native of Oklahoma who has spent most of her life in the state's capital city, is a multi-talented performer, singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. One of the first female rockabilly singers, Wanda achieved enormous success in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a pioneering rock and roll artist, earning her the title of Queen (or First Lady) of Rockabilly in the eyes of many.

In 1980 this was an authentic surprise for all the American-Rock fans. A mixture of mixed blues, country, rockabilly and rock & roll roots, Wayne had a peculiar vocal and personal style. An album played with verve and passion, heavy with blues, rhythm & blues and rockabilly. This is a wonderful reissue of an ultra-rare album and a really stylish digipack set. Originally released in 1980. Featuring: Bugs Henderson and band, Smokin' Joe Kubek, Jim Colegrove, the Juke Jumpers, Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets, Steve Doerr and Don Leady, aka Le Roi Brothers.

Sons of Sunday is the upcoming self-titled debut studio album by American Christian worship collective Sons of Sunday. The album will be released on May 16, 2025, through Elevation Worship Records and Provident Label Group, onto LP, digital download, and streaming formats.

NASHVILLE! COME CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF MY DEBUT ALBUM TRAUMACORE RAW & UNCUT the night will include live performances from myself and @samtinnesz , a bracelet making station (to make lifelong friends and bond over sad shit), a photo booth, a merch raffle and so much more!!

The Grand Scheme of Things is a 1993 solo album by Yes guitarist Steve Howe. The album features seven vocal tracks and nine instrumental tracks using instruments including dobro, steel guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, keyboards, organ, Spanish guitar and anvil. The album reached No. 15 in the Billboard Top New Age Albums charts. Steve Howe is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as the guitarist in the progressive rock band Yes across three stints since 1970. Howe helped to change the band's musical direction, leading to more commercial and critical success. Many of their best-known songs were co-written by Howe, who remained with the band until they briefly disbanded in 1981. Howe returned to the group in 1990 for two years and has remained a full-time member since 1995.

After stopping off in Cöthen, Benjamin Alard continues his musical journey through the works of J.S. Bach.Here he focuses on the composer’s early years in Leipzig, with the six Trio Sonatas, which he performs on harpsichord and clavichord. The famous ‘Little Keyboard Book’ of Anna Magdalena takes us into the more intimate world of the Kantor’s household.

Miracle Music is the ninth studio album from Grails, the American experimental rock titans who recently marked a quarter of a century together. The quartet reunite with their old producer Jason Powers at his Oregon studio where they made their earliest recordings at the turn of the millennium, and together they combine light, airy electric and acoustic instruments with the grit and darkness of early industrial music.

Taken together, David Coverdale's first two post-Deep Purple solo albums, 1977's White Snake and 1978's Northwinds, are rather more subdued and, while not exactly laid-back, more in a mainstream late-'70s rock groove than you might expect from a singer who fronted both Deep Purple and Whitesnake, with pit stops for roots rock, AOR ballads, and gently funky stuff. Taken on their own terms outside of the context of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, they're mediocre listening, the product of a man uncertain about where to take his music as a solo act, without the rock-hard hard rock support of one of his steady bands.

It was an unforgettable week of music at the Blue Note in New York City, March 2005, celebrating the legendary saxophonist & flutist James Moody's 80th birthday. 80 Years Young documents the grand finale of that week, now released for the first time and in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The club was buzzing that night with jazz legends, sports figures, TV personalities, and alive with love, joy, and the heartbeat of a community united in reverence for a great American cultural icon. Supporting Moody were Jon Faddis, Randy Brecker, Paquito D'Rivera, and Slide Hampton, with David Hazeltine and Cedar Walton on piano, bassist Todd Coolman, and drummer Adam Nussbaum, with a brief introduction by jazz impresario George Wein. Featured in the set was "Moody's Mood for Love," over a half-century since it was a major hit for King Pleasure and Moody's signature tune over the decades. 80 Years Young is a powerful reminder of the lasting impact of his music and exudes the deep joyful connection he created with colleagues and audiences throughout his six-decade career.

Tarja announces her new live album ‘Circus Life’ today, to be released through earMUSIC on May 16th.

It’s a brand new day for Cautious Clay, and he’s taking it head on. The singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist also known as Joshua Karpeh hits a galvanizing stride that unfolds hour-by-hour on his newest project, The Hours: Morning, a conceptual endeavor that’s equal parts mixtape and emotive timetable. Facing daybreak with a certain pop precision that he’s honed over the past decade, it’s a project that further illuminates Karpeh as an artist whose strength lies in his dexterity.

Words from Gruff Rhys on American Interior (2025 Remastered Bonus Edition) Revisiting American Interior 11 years later, feels very prescient. In following the unusual story of explorer John Evans (1770-1799), it becomes clear that faked narratives can have profound and unpredictable consequences in real life. His barely believable journey of verification in searching through continental scale wilderness for a [fictitious] Welsh speaking tribe believed to be living on the Great Plains of North America (an ancient folk tale perpetuated by the Elizabethan court following the subjugation of Wales, to make colonial claims on behalf of the British on the Americas) had a dramatic political effect on the fledgling USA and a devastating impact on himself and some of those who helped him on his way. I wrote an album of songs inspired by his life; American Interior, which also served as a soundtrack to a documentary film based on a book that detailed his journey, intertwined with my own investigative concert tour, all three of which I worked on simultaneously. It took me a while to process the whole experience and its lessons and feel I owe it to my former self to take these songs back on the road for a couple of months and re-tell the story for a new decade.

The self-titled album by the short-lived outfit Affinity displays a lot of potential, which if not wholly successful has an individuality separating them from their more jazzy and progressive peers. If Linda Hoyle's talent for fusing the vocal traits of Bessie Smith, Grace Slick, and Sandy Denny together semi-successfully is the defining point, then Lynton Naiff's pounding Hammond workouts fall somewhere between the exceptional and the overdone. With the addition of John Paul Jones' fine brass arrangements, which are to the fore throughout, a very soulful feel reminiscent of the latter work of Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & the Trinity is created. And the album's variety of moods sustains interest throughout. "Coconut Grove" (the Lovin' Spoonful song) is given a similar slow treatment to Donovan's diversions into jazz on Sunshine Superman, notably "The Observation," while a heavier element is supplied by a few heavy Hammond numbers…