Featured Artists
Bob Salmieri
Bob Salmieri is a Italian composer, musician and writer. He plays tenor and soprano sax, ney and Turkish baglama. Coming from a Sicilian family who emigrated to Tunisia in the early 1900s, he has always been interested in Middle Eastern culture, infusing all his projects with it’s atmospheres and sounds, mixing the jazz language with that of Arab culture.
Roberto Lessa
Born in Crato-CE, Brazil, Roberto Lessa is a blues guitarist influenced by BB King, Lightinin’ Hopkins, and Albert Collins, and has been the frontman of bands such as Blues Label and Gumbo Blues for 22 years. Roberto Lessa is an artist who researches the blues in its various aspects and he also hosts and produces the radio show “Encontro com O Blues”.
Rosedale Junction
Rosedale Junction is the crossroads of traditional American born and raised blues, country, R&B and good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. Founded by Boston based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Toby Soriero, the band released their debut album, Stompin’ on the Front Porch, in 2021
Alber Solo
An incredible live artist, Alber Solo has a unique and distinctive style, his guitar sound is distorted, while his vocal style is gritty and intense. “Absolute junkie of vintage music and sound”. This is how this guitar virtuoso declares himself, maker of bluesy melodies mixed with soul and rock n’ roll.
Jonah Carden
Jonah Carden is an American singer/songwriter from Southern West Virginia. He has written, recorded, and independently released 3 solo albums to date. The only true consistency through each of his genre-defying releases are his powerful baritone, intricate guitar playing, and a knack for creating a “vibe”. Everything from somber acoustic ballads to hard-hitting metal tunes are allowed in his sandbox.
Jessica Born & Georg Crostewitz
Jessica Born & Georg Crostewitz play bluesy ballads, rock and soul and rhythm ‘n’ blues from the 1960s to the present day. Without being unfaithful to the blues, they always play their own ideas into their concerts and draw from a variety of different musical styles. A pleasure for the audience: So familiar and yet so different.
Rob Europe
Rob Europe Is a Blues and Americana artist from Long Island, NY. He also acts as the singer/guitarist of the rock band “Foster Europe Band”. “My style is very much a rootsy one, I do soft solo acoustic stuff in one place and then you can see me elsewhere with a full band playing my electric entirely too loud,” Europe said. “Anything in between is also possible, but the one constant is that I will more than likely be playing fingerstyle.
The Gumbo Kings
The Gumbo Kings are a five-headed Soul Monster that combines the groove of New Orleans Funk with the grittiness of Delta Blues and the melodies of Memphis Soul. The five Gumbo Kings are young but seasoned heavy cats who already performed the world over, from the USA and Italy to the tiny Azores Islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Magnum Opus
Magnum Opus is a blues singer-songwriter from the Netherlands known for his creative & deep guitar tone and dark, raw vocals. His latest independently produced track “The Blues in Me” – a heartfelt slow blues piece is available now for streaming & download.
Spotify Playlists
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Don’s Tunes Official Playlist
Dark Americana / Country / Blues / Folk
The Legends
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.
B.B. King – Famous Quotes & Trivia
The significant difference between B.B. King and his disciples is that he had long ago mastered the concept that less can be more when it comes to the number of notes in a solo. “If it’s done well with less, then use that,” he says. “
Aretha Franklin – The Queen of Soul
Aretha Franklin possessed one of the most distinctive and influential voices in the history of popular music.
In a 50-year recording career she racked up 20 Top 10 albums, a dozen million-selling singles and earned no fewer than 18 Grammy awards.
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