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Eric Bibb: Diamond Days (Telarc/Elite)

Bibb is one of that new generation of bluesmen who sounds utterly authentic: this despite Bibb growing up in New York, having John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet as an uncle, and studying psychology

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Eric Bibb: Get On Board (Telarc/Elite)

...instantly familiar yet new. Very special man. Eric Bibb plays a short New Zealand tour in late...

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Blues at Elsewhere: blues/2197/eric-bibb-get-on-board-telarc-elite/

RUTHIE FOSTER (2011): A Southern soul sister rises

...old sidekick Gurf Morlix on lap steel on Eric Bibb's A Friend Like You, and she covers Williams'...

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RUTHIE FOSTER: LIVE AT ANTONE'S (Fuse DVD)

Many who witnessed the sad and rather shameful "performance" by BB King in Auckland's Civic this year (see review here) have walked away embarrassed for King . . . but thrilled by his openin

Film at Elsewhere: film/4318/ruthie-foster-live-at-antones-fuse-dvd/

Ruthie Foster: The Truth According to Ruthie Foster (Shock)

...singer makes a guest appearance on the new Eric Bibb album Get On Board -- and Bibb contributes two...

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ERIC BIBB INTERVIEWED (2009): Born into this

...could say singer-guitarist Eric Bibb had little choice, that he was born to the...

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/4918/eric-bibb-interviewed-2009-born-into-this/

Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (2011 reissue)

...And of course blues artists like Keb Mo, Eric Bibb and others will always use him for a reference...

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Big Daddy Wilson: Love is the Key (Ruf/Yellow Eye)

...the end, the real pay-off here. Guest here is Eric Bibb (another who came late to the blues and has a...

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/3371/big-daddy-wilson-love-is-the-key-ruf-yellow-eye/

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB (2011): The Dylan tribute albums

...parlour in a stately home, and she gets in Eric Bibb on guitar for Trouble in Mind and the rather...

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Big Daddy Wilson: Thumb a Ride (Ruf)

...with his fine Love is the Key which featured Eric Bibb, a singer he is close in spirit to. This all...

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/4455/big-daddy-wilson-thumb-a-ride-ruf/

BIG DADDY WILSON INTERVIEWED (2012): Blues sprechen here

...whose manager started the label, his hero Eric Bibb, Walter Trout and others, and deliver a smart... ...I'm about. I remember the first time I heard Eric Bibb I thought he was part of a new generation...

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/4919/big-daddy-wilson-interviewed-2012-blues-sprechen-here/

Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite: Get Up! (Stax)

...rarely found them genuinely interesting (and Eric Bibb was doing much more challenging stuff but...

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/5488/ben-harper-charlie-musselwhite-get-up-stax/

Seasick Steve: I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Got Most of it Left (Warners)

...at times his rural blues recalls a more gritty Eric Bibb or Malcolm Holcombe, in other places he sings...

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John Scofield: Piety Street (Universal)

...album of two years ago. And singer-songwriter Eric Bibb and Ruthie Foster are also exploring this...

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DEREK TRUCKS INTERVIEWED (2009): Allman and Clapton, but his own man

For someone yet to hit 30, the Jacksonville, Florida-based singer-guitarist Derek Trucks has achieved a lot. But then, he was almost born to it. His uncle is drummer Butch Trucks of the Allman Brother

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/2184/derek-trucks-interviewed-2009-allman-and-clapton-but-his-own-man/

Modou Toure and Ramon Goose: The West African Blues Project (Arc Music)

...It's a path back and forth which the likes of Eric Bibb, Keb M'o, Baaba Maal and many others have...

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Guy Davis: Skunkmello (Red House)

Before you look at the title and the cover art -- Davis laughing and surrounded by smoke -- let's get it straight: this isn't a stoner album but (apparently) takes its title from a notorious chicken t

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M Ward; Post-War (EMI) BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2006

Matt Ward could easily be a musicologist's research assignment: this album -- his fifth -- roams effortless from hushed balladry to guitar work which sounds like the Shadows on a surf-rock kick, and f

Music at Elsewhere: music/934/m-ward-post-war-emi-best-of-elsewhere-2006/

Liam Ryan: Mississippi 2 Mauao (Torch)

On the release of excellent recent albums by Wellington pianists Kevin Clark and Charmaine Ford, and Auckland saxophonist Brian Smith I have noted what a rare year it is shaping up to be in New Zealan

Music at Elsewhere: music/1133/liam-ryan-mississippi-2-mauao-torch/

Peter Case: Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (YepRoc Records)

Case used to be the mainman in the Plimsouls, a terrific and slightly ragged power pop band but he has enjoyed a long and diverse alt.country/alt.rock solo career -- as befits a man who was once marri

Music at Elsewhere: music/1376/peter-case-let-us-now-praise-sleepy-john-yeproc-records/

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