Feed Christa Wells

Wells sings with a salty edge and clarity that are convincing and engaging, and he maintains his good humor even when saddled with less than first-rate material. He provides winning renditions of Ray Charles' "The Train," Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again" and Jimmy Reed's "Honest I Do," plus a good reworking of his own "Messin' With The Kid" and "Goin' Home." But the song that tears the house down is "Oh, Pretty Woman," featuring flashy, exciting guitar from Rico McFarland and Wells' swirling harmonica adding secondary fire. Indeed, Wells' harp playing's another bonus; it's focused and aggressive here. This is pretty good for a 1990s session.

This new DVD brings together great musical performances and off-the-wall banter from the east coast leg of the Stan Ridgway Trio's Spring 2009 acoustic tour - Like sitting in a front row seat - Fantastic!…

Hoodoo Man Blues is considered by most blues aficionados and fans to be one of the best blues albums of all time. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was chosen by the readers of Living Blues magazine as a top ten Desert Island Blues disc. Recorded on September 22 & 23, 1965 Hoodoo Man Blues was the first studio album to capture a working Chicago blues band doing essentially what they did on stage without time constraints to accommodate the singles market…

Rocking Chicago blues in all its glory and intensity - in a series of live sets from the great Buddy Guy's Legends club in Chicago. The show brings great icons of blues - Junior Wells, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy - together with younger artists - Pistol Pete, Roy Hytower, Rod Piazza - to showcase generations of great players of this hard driving American tradition.
The great Junior Wells' harmonica playing defines the Chicago sound: he worked with Muddy Waters in the 50s and with Buddy Guy in the 60s. Hubert Sumlin brought the Mississippi sound to Chicago and contributed to the dark sound of Howlin Wolf. Buddy Guy blew hippies away in the late 60s with his guitar theatrics.