Tone Cool

Positively Beadhead

(1999 ‘Tone-Cool’) (57:39/12) Sehr moderat geratenes, arg poppiges neues Album, das eher an die letzten Geschichten von Aaron Neville denn an Zydeco erinnert / this new one reminds me of the latest Neville Bros. releases. Modern pop music from New Orleans, with a little Zydeco left over. European pressing – last copies!Medium 1All Her LovinParadiseMardi Gras In The …

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Live at the W. C. Handy Blues Awards 1

It’s the biggest night in the blues – now on CD for the first time. Each year in May, the blues world gathers in Memphis to celebrate the best artists in the genre during the annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards Show – the blues version of the GRAMMY(R) awards. As the awards show unfolds, a select few performers …

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Just Won’t Burn

A Boston native now living in Atlanta, Sue Tedeschi gets wildly overpraised by some purported blues pundits and gratuitously slammed by others. The truth lies somewhere in between. She’s an earnest but undistinguished singer and a functional songwriter-guitarist whose music provides mild entertainment. On an album that veers between blues-slanted material (try “Friar’s Point”) and bluesy pop-rock (take …

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