Anyway, Paul Nickels has appeared in this column quite a lot in the past few years for his work recording and drumming on all the recent Butterfield 8 material, but these are his first “solo” outings ...

This typically well annotated 3CD anthology from Cherry Red ranges far and wide in its choice of subject matter as it paints a vivid musical portrait of the U.S. soul scene in the mid sixties, drawing ...

An archival recording of the original Blues Brothers — John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd — performing live, The Lost Recordings, will arrive this October.

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July 2025’s new music releases include albums from the resurgent Styx, the reuniting Alice Cooper group and the remastered Jethro Tull. The avian-themed Crash of the Crown is Styx’s third LP since ...

A real curates egg of an album – some divine playing and excruciating vocals, all sounding as though it was recorded on a cassette from the back of the hall. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was ...

From his first album, 1986's Cold is the Night, to his most recent, JLW, Walker has fearlessly expanded the parameters of the blues by writing ambitious, inventive songs which reflect a wide range ...

Joe Louis Walker, a raspy-voiced singer and guitarist who took an expansive approach to the blues, recording gritty, down-home albums as well as acclaimed records incorporating gospel, soul, jazz ...

A Complete Unknown documents Bob Dylan’s history in New York, but the singer spent an influential month in Chicago before heading east.

Goldberg played live with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (which included his friend Bloomfield) when they backed Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival; by ‘going electric,’ this ...

Barry also was one of the musicians, along with members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Al Kooper, who backed Dylan at his historic 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival, when Bob ...