Damon Fowler's Practice Sessions: Blues Slide

'Alafia Moon' is the 2021 release from veteran bluesman Damon Fowler, a masterful singer, guitar player and songwriter. Combining first rate musicianship and soulful vocals, the album represents various styles that make up the roots of American music. 'Alfafia Moon' marks Fowler's 8th solo release. With all the elements of a classic blues record, it shows off Damon's unique fret work, heartfelt vocals and vivid songwriting to the max.

Sessions is Union Square Music’s 2CD urban and dance music range. Aimed at both the hardened dance music fan and the impulse purchaser, each Sessions title is packed full of hit singles, big club tracks and a choice selection of forgotten gems and underground classics picked out by our expert crate-digging compilers. Strong generic packaging including an outer slipcase, informative sleeve notes and a low price in the shops have made Sessions one of our most popular labels.

Mississippi born and raised, Elmore James learned his trade in the Delta in the 1930s, emerging in the early 1950s as the godfather of modern electric guitar, and no guitarist who ever plugged an instrument into an amp is free of his influence. Not only did he create the template for electric slide players everywhere, he also reworked his amps until they delivered a raw, overdriven sound that became endemic in pop and rock music a decade later, and no punk band ever sounded more ragged or passionate than Elmore James in full stride. James recorded for some dozen labels during his short recording career (he died in 1963 of a heart attack at the age of 45), and he is one of those rare artists whose recorded output was seamless from the first to the last…