Featured Artists
Cassie Taylor
Cassie Taylor is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and blues musician. She started her career in the early 2000s as a bassist for her father Otis Taylor, the critically acclaimed trance blues musician. Her formative years as a touring artist led her to share the stage and record with blues and rock legends including Joe Cocker, John Oates, Gary Moore, and Keb’ Mo’.
Peter Struijk
Peter works as musician, teacher and producer. For his debut solo album “Human Ways” from 2009, he recorded with his longtime friend the legendary Chicago blues singer Tail Dragger. Peter was also nominated for “Best Dutch Blues Guitarist” in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Chris Wragg and Greg Copeland
Chris Wragg and Greg Copeland released their debut Album “Deep in the Blood” on June 29th 2019. The Album is released on Honey Bee Blues Records and is be available on all major online distributes. The Album includes guests such as Greg Guy (Son of Buddy Guy) on Guitar, Shirley King (Daughter of B B King) on Vocals, Master Harmonica player Marcos Coll and Joel White on Hammond Organ.
Zorita
Zorita is a band formed around the songs of Belgian/Spanish singer and songwriter Carlos Zorita Diaz. The core of the music is inspired by stories, poems and thoughts. Somewhat like the songs of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, they take you somewhere.
Steven Heighton
Heighton began his creative life as an aspiring songwriter, in high school in Toronto. He kept at it into his early twenties, busking his way around Australia and Europe, playing a few small gigs, but before long he was devoting himself to writing books—poetry, at first, his lyrics morphing and learning to accompany themselves, to make their own music, as the words of a poem must do. Soon he was producing books of short stories, then novels, and then the rest. A long apprenticeship.
Guile Rush
Guile Rush is an alter ego, insired by Sunday afternoon westerns, gunslingers, outlaws and dark country music.
Located on the west coast of Ireland, Guile writes the occasional song in a small room and records it before it is forgotten. A few of those songs get polished up and those are the ones you hear.
Lloyd Spiegel
Australian blues musician Lloyd Spiegel isn’t here to change the world, just make it a little more bearable. Lloyd’s travels not only honed his craft, earned him a swag of awards and brought him to take counsel with the founding fathers of modern blues – it taught him the most important part of being a blues musician: connecting with everyday people.
JD Simo
The Chicago-born, now Nashville transplant is like a one-man crusade dedicated to keeping music real, raw, and honest. No matter the setting and no matter his role (whether it’s wingman or bandleader) J.D.’s presence infuses the situation of the moment with the music that’s been fueling him pretty much his whole life, spiced with influences that straddle both decades and dimensions.
Little Violet
Little Violet is a band from the UK fronted by the female singer, songwriter and pianist Cherie Gears. Classic vocal-jazz-inspired, even vintage sounding songs, combined with great melodies, witty lyrics and contemporary but swung beats proved quite the combination, matching influences from 20s and 30s swing with modern production.
Spotify Playlists
The Legends
Keith Richards on the Blues – Collection of Quotes
What was it about Waters, and that generation of bluesmen, that fascinated him so much? Keith shakes his head."I don't know. It just struck the chord in here somewhere. You heard it and all the breath left your body and you were...anything to be able to approach that....
Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Texas Blues King on The Blues & Life
The blues always sounded more like “the real thing” than anything else. It’s not like I automatically said, “This is cooler than this,” or “This has more emotion.” When I heard it, it slayed me! There was just not a question.
Rory Gallagher’s Blues – Quotes & Recollections
Rory Gallagher was the People’s Guitarist. Unassuming, but tenacious, the Irish blues man devoted his life to touring and playing his beloved Fender Strat to adoring audiences. He never stopped working, and could always command a crowd, but resolutely eschewed the trappings of superstardom.
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