Rory Block Blues Walkin' Like A Man A Tribute To Son House (2008)

Let's just say that the songwriting of this venerable Chicago singer-guitarist - papa to the young guns who lead the Kinsey Report band - doesn't measure up to his intentions. Despite its title, this 1993 effort is a tribute to Kinsey's role model Muddy Waters. And luckily most of the tunes are classics from Waters ("Mannish Boy," "Got My Mojo Workin'," "Walking Through the Park"), Sonny Boy Williamson ("Nine Below Zero"), and others. The expert support includes Buddy Guy and Big Daddy's son Donald on guitar; harpmen James Cotton, Sugar Blue, and Billy Branch; piano legend Pinetop Perkins; and Lucky Peterson on organ. So the playing is every bit as Delta-authentic as Kinsey himself, whose deep Mississippi-accented voice is a glorious time machine that transports us back to the era of the Saturday night fish fry.

Guitarist Lou Pallo, …, has an album coming out on September 11 that pays tribute to his late friend and bandmate Les Paul. Titled Thank You Les: A Tribute to Les Paul, the 21-track disc covers a range of styles pop, jazz, country, rock and blues all tastefully…

The Scorpions never sounded better. This tribute is well worth adding to your archives of metal. Inspired by the pioneers of metal, you can't help but like this one. Take away Therion's cover of Crying Days and Rough Silk's version of Is There Anybody There and your left with 16 killer tracks…

Sometimes we can type until our fingers are battered, bloodied stumps and still fail to come up with anything that’s a patch on that which some poor, harried blurb writer managed to spit out seconds before popping down the pub for a few pints. So what are Ten Years After all about? Take it away Blurbie…
“In the beginning God made the guitar. Then he created a new breed of guitar Gods to play it, and Alvin Lee of Ten Years After was the fastest guitar-slinger in the West.”

A collection of moody and magnificent covers of Cave’s landmark compositions by Primal Scream, Sharon Van Etten, Giant Sand, Mark Lanegan, My Morning Jacket and more.

What happens when you take a master of progressive rock and an accomplished Nashville producer engineer, and put them together with a host of top-flight Nashville session players to reinterpret one of the most revered 70s prog double-albums? In the case of Spock s Beard drummer Nick D'Virgilio and producer engineer Mark Hornsby, you get Rewiring Genesis A Tribute To The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and it's fantastic. While the original featured layers of classic synthesizers (ARP, Mellotron, etc.), there's none of that fake string or choir stuff going on here. Besides rock guitar, bass, and Nick's great drumming (and tasteful lead vocal work), The Lamb is filled with real strings, huge vocal arrangements, horn sections, and even some accordion! Clearly, it's not attempting to simply re-record the classic, it's a fresh and beautiful sounding reinterpretation.