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Southern Avenue

3 weeks ago | twangville.com | Bill Wilcox |Mayer Danzig

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 By Bill Wilcox If you’re looking for a prescription to help get by in these darkish times, perhaps some unbridled optimism to offset the rancor that is so prevalent today, then Southern Avenue’s new Family might be just what the doctor ordered. When blues guitarist Ori Naftaly left his native Israel to compete in the International Blues Challenge […]
Merry Mulligans

Dec 20, 2024 | twangville.com | Bill Wilcox

I haven’t played golf in 20 years, and when I did play, I was terrible at it. But I gotta say that when I did play I was the master of one particular stroke – the “Mulligan.” That’s when your shot off the tee is so bad you either miss it all together or you send the ball dribbling tee and it doesn’t make it past the ladies’ tee, you get to take another shot. In reviewing music, the same thing happens sometimes.
Arlen Roth - Playing Out the String

Nov 27, 2024 | twangville.com | Bill Wilcox

With Arlen Roth, it’s all about the guitar. Having shared stage or studio with Bob Dylan, John Prine, Paul Butterfield, Loudon Wainwright III, Ry Cooder, Rory Block, Eric Andersen and many others, Roth has been long established as a “go to” session man or sideman on tour. Originally from New York City, Roth started a rock band while studying at University of the Arts in Philadelphia in the late sixties. After college he started a fabled career as a session man.
Arlen Roth

Nov 27, 2024 | twangville.com | Bill Wilcox

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 By Bill Wilcox With Arlen Roth, it’s all about the guitar. Having shared stage or studio with Bob Dylan, John Prine, Paul Butterfield, Loudon Wainwright III, Ry Cooder, Rory Block, Eric Andersen and many others, Roth has been long established as a “go to” session man or sideman on tour. Originally from New York City, Roth started a […]
Warren Haynes

Nov 21, 2024 | twangville.com | Shawn Underwood |Mayer Danzig |Tom Osborne |Bill Wilcox

Although younger than Willie by almost 30 years, Warren Haynes is maybe the last leaf on a different tree. With the recent passing of Dickey Betts, Haynes is now the elder statesman in a large group of southern rock and jam band musicians building on the legacy of The Allman Brothers Band. He just released […]In the eighties and early nineties, post one Daley and pre another one, one of the safer areas of Chicago to go see live blues was a short stretch on North Halsted Avenue.
Blue Moon Marquee - New Orleans Sessions

Nov 20, 2024 | twangville.com | Bill Wilcox

Going to sound like my dad here, but I’ll challenge anyone not to tap your toes listening to the new upbeat, old-timey New Orleans Sessions from Canadian duo Blue Moon Marquee. The duo, which features A.W. Cardinal on vocals and guitar and Jasmine Colette on vocals and upright bass, captures a unique feel they’ve dubbed “Gypsy Blues” and delivers the listener to a different time and place. The duo’s influences include early blues, jazz, ragtime and swing music, among others.
Eric Bibb - In The Real World

Oct 31, 2024 | twangville.com | Bill Wilcox

Happy Halloween!All right, now that’s out of the way let me say that there are different kinds of blues musicians. There are blues rockers who make their reputations with searing guitar solos and there are blues bar bands who may be great musicians but whose focus is making sure you have a good time. There’s nothing wrong with all of that. But then there are artists who drive the blues forward as an art form. Eric Bibb is one of the those.
Ronnie Baker Brooks - Blues In My DNA

Oct 17, 2024 | twangville.com | Bill Wilcox

Ronnie Baker Brooks plays such a serious guitar, one might say it’s in his DNA.
Ronnie Baker Brooks

Oct 17, 2024 | twangville.com | Bill Wilcox

Ronnie Baker Brooks plays such a serious guitar, one might say it’s in his DNA. The son of Chicago blues great Lonnie Brooks, Brooks (whose birth name was Rodney Dion Baker), along with his brother Wayne Baker Brooks, is one of a number of gifted blues offspring, including the likes of Shemekia Copeland (daughter of […]
Dave Alvin

Oct 3, 2024 | twangville.com | Mayer Danzig |Shawn Underwood |Bill Wilcox |Chip Frazier

LYDIA LOVELESS Loveless played two shows to celebrate a new album, Something Else, a reimagined version of her 2014 release Somewhere Else. The new release is nearly entirely Loveless solo on piano and was the focus of a stunning Thursday appearance at Todd Snider’s Purple Building. The next afternoon Loveless and John Calvin Abney brought […]What originated as a long weekend, AmericanaFest now has official events beginning on Tuesday.