Don’s Tunes is about the music. It’s about the sound. It’s about the real thing.

I’ve been collaborating with blues & jazz artists / labels for more than 15 years, helping them reach new audiences through my YouTube Channel, my curated Spotify playlists and the amazing community on my social media pages. My passion is to discover lesser known, but extremely talented musicians and to promote songs with an audiophile sound and authentic emotion.

If you’re an artist or label and want to collaborate with me – check this Page & write me on don@donstunes.com. For song submission the best way is to use my SubmitHub & Groover profiles.

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Latest Tunes

Big Pete Pearson - Heartaches

Big Pete Pearson – Heartaches

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69 Comments
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy

Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy

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441 Likes
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Leon Russell's Advice To Young Musicians

Leon Russell's Advice To Young Musicians

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Guy Verlinde - Treat Me Right

Guy Verlinde – Treat Me Right

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427 Likes
81 Comments
Kat Danser - Lonely And The Dragon

Kat Danser – Lonely And The Dragon

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420 Likes
86 Comments
The Klem Blues Band - Without You

The Klem Blues Band – Without You

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484 Likes
86 Comments
Dave Gross - Make Things Right

Dave Gross – Make Things Right

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393 Likes
72 Comments
Johnny Winter & Dr. John - Mean Mistreater

Johnny Winter & Dr. John – Mean Mistreater

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324 Likes
17 Comments

Featured Artists

Eve Gallagher

Eve Gallagher

Eve is from Sunderland in the Northeast of England. She grew up in West Africa and has travelled the world extensively. She stands 6 foot tall and is one of the best live performers around according to the American Billboard Magazine.

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Lily Vakili

Lily Vakili

A lifelong observer, chronicler, and creative force, Lily Vakili has spent years gathering fragments of the world – memories, landscapes, voices, losses, joys – and transforming them into urgent, electric songs. She was raised across Honduras, Florida, Thailand, Puerto Rico, and Iowa – absorbing pieces of each place, each culture, along the way.

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Alex J. Wolfe

Alex J. Wolfe

Hailing from the Carolinas, 21-year-old Alex J. Wolfe is an avid outdoorsman, guitarist, songwriter, composer, and singer. His latest EP, “Kudzu,” is driven by his new slow-burning blues song titled “Kudzu Woman”. He played all of the instruments heard in his work, with the exception of organ on “Kudzu Woman”, which also features the haunting background vocals of the incredible Abby Bryant.

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Copper Mine

Copper Mine

Copper Mine is a Cyprus-based blues/indie/folk band formed in 2020, born from thecollaboration between singer-songwriter Marc Zagar and compadre producer/musician Andreas Matheou. Their sound blends blues authenticity, rock drive, and folk-inspiredstorytelling, focusing on groove, atmosphere, and strong songcraft.

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Donna Hourigan & The Turnaround

Donna Hourigan & The Turnaround

Thriving on the influences of Motown, Memphis & New Orleans, The Turnaround takes the traditions of Blues, R&B and Soul and infuses them with a completely original and contemporary vibe. This energetic 4 piece is electric on stage, rocking their original music plus well loved covers.

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Jonathan Hirsch

Jonathan Hirsch

Originally from England but now based in Malaysia, my musical journey started when I taught myself to play the guitar at the age of 14, using an old and battered classical instrument that had been handed down via my mum from my great aunt Agnes Capri. Style-wise, the obvious references are Dire Straits and Pink Floyd, with Mark Knopfler and David Gilmour being formative influences on my guitar playing and songwriting.

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Dida Pelled

Dida Pelled

Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Dida Pelled, is widely regarded as the greatest jazz guitarist this side of the Mississippi. Love of the Tiger, Pelled’s latest album, is the product of a jazz prodigy gone rogue. It is a love letter to the obscure, weaving across genres, twisting and turning with Pelled’s ever-expanding range of musical abilities and interests.

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Dirty Shoes Band

Dirty Shoes Band

Dirty Shoes Band is a collaboration of Colorado musicians who share a love for American roots music. The band is led by “Doctor” Doug Krause who plays the piano. He immersed himself in the history if rhythm and blues piano styles from the time his father played boogie-woogie 78 rpm records for him when he was a teenager. This is evident in his songwriting, which is deeply influenced by the swampy, funky tradition of New Orleans, folksy storytelling, the raw emotion of the blues, and salt-of-the-earth honesty.

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Tim Larkin

Tim Larkin

Renowned composer and trumpet player Tim Larkin returns with Setting Standards, his long-awaited debut jazz album. Out August 1 on all major platforms, the album is a curated collection of reimagined classics and one original composition that captures the emotional breadth, musical depth, and cinematic storytelling that have defined Larkin’s career across jazz, film, and video games.

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Spotify Playlists

3 The Legends

Tom Waits – Collection of Quotes on Songwriting

Tom Waits – Collection of Quotes on Songwriting

“If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I’ve chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it. Most things you can get with a button nowadays. So if I was trying for a certain drum sound, my engineer would say: “Oh, for Christ’s sake, why are we wasting our…

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Keith Richards on the Blues – Collection of Quotes

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….

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