Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, April 26th, 2024)
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Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, April 22nd, 2022)
“Sitting on Top of the World” written by Walter Vinson & Lonnie Chatmon, rearranged by Howlin’ Wolf – Covered by Cream (1968) and The Grateful Dead (1967)
Artist: Phil Gammage
Title: Used Man For Sale
Label: World Wide Vibe
Genre: Blues/Americana
Release date: October 4, 2016
New York blues/americana musician Phil Gammage returns with a new 10-song album Used Man for Sale featuring all original songs. In this collection, Phil explores blues, lounge, and countrypolitan, all to great success. The result is an album of unforgettable melodies and music.
Artist: Tomás Doncker Band
Title: Big Apple Blues
Label: True Groove Records
Genre: Blues/nu blues
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
Let’s face it; the blues have been done to death. Far from its African roots, its American tradition, during the 60s and beyond, the blues were looted by the (sometimes well meaning) British and Americans. With only a few exceptions, it seemed to have been squeezed for every drop of essence it had, and what was left was sustaining mostly unimaginative musicians who were seduced by its romance and deceptively simple musical structure, and die-hard traditionalists who struggle to preserve the tradition.
