Larry McCray - Blues Without You (2022)

 

Underrated and overlooked blues guitar veteran Larry McCray finally gets his due with the help of rockstar producer team Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith. After growing up with his incredible talent Joe and Josh felt it was time for the world to discover this Bay City, Michigan gem. With 11 original tracks (plus 1 cover) this new album showcases Larry's powerhouse, soulful vocals,blazing guitar playing, and amazing songwriting. Blues-Rock stars Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes and Joanna Connor all lend their fiery guitar solos as featured guests.

https://album.link/i/1607417923



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Albert Castiglia - I Got Love (2022)

 

'I Got Love' was produced by Gulf Coast Records guitarist and co-owner Mike Zito and features a stellar cast of musicians backing Albert Castiglia (guitar and vocals): Justine Tompkins (bass and vocals); Ephraim Lowell (drums and vocals) and Lewis Stephens (Hammond B3 organ and piano).

The new album, which showcases 11 blistering, blues-drenched tracks, is a personal and powerful statement from Castiglia. "'I Got Love' is a musical essay documenting the last two years of my life: two years of many highs and lows," Castiglia offers. "It's about falling, failing, adapting, reinventing, surviving and becoming triumphant. It contains musings of an unemployed man, a covid-stricken idiot and getting through it like Andy Dufresne in 'The Shawshank Redemption.' The blues and blues-infused music is rooted in truth. "This album is my truth. To ignore the events of the past two years (the covid era) and write about anything else would not be my truth. I went through it all - loss, depression, illness, fear of the unknown. I know I couldn't have been the only one that went through it. This collection of songs is for those who felt like I did. It's for those who went down fighting and those who keep on fighting. For many of us in my profession and in the gig economy, this was our great depression. Some of us are doing well and some of us are still trying to find solid ground."

https://album.link/i/1606222822

The Simon Kinny-Lewis Band - King Biscuit (2021)

King Biscuit is a modern blues album featuring the cream of the blues crop.

https://album.link/i/1604997982

Darren Rahn - Rock The World (2022)

 

Tracklist:

01. Darren Rahn - Rock The World

02. Darren Rahn - Cry

03. Darren Rahn - On Wings Of Hope

04. Darren Rahn - Table For Two

05. Darren Rahn - Weekend Flow (feat. Brian Bromberg)

06. Darren Rahn - Midnight Sun (Extended Version)

07. Darren Rahn - The Perfect Storm (feat. Dave Koz, Najee & Everette Harp)

08. Darren Rahn - Caught Up In You (feat. Brian Culbertson)

09. Darren Rahn - Moxified (Extended Version)

10. Darren Rahn - Funky D

11. Darren Rahn - Infinite Love (Extended Version)

12. Darren Rahn - Everlasting

With multiple GRAMMY nominations over the past 14 years as an artist, producer and mixing engineer, Darren Rahn has become urban jazz’s premiere sonic architect – the “go-to” guy for established genre greats and up and comers looking for their next sure-fire hit.

After launching his career producing, engineering and mixing for local Denver area artists starting in the late 90s, Darren became the ultimate urban jazz hyphenate as an artist/producer in the 2000s, following his success with Wayman Tisdale (which included the #1 hit remake of “Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now”) with behind the scenes roles as producer, composer, arranger and/or mix engineer for music on five Dave Koz projects (Greatest Hits, Hello Tomorrow, Summer Horns, Gifts Of The Season, and A New Day ).

Over the years, as his detail-oriented sonic excellence led to more and more hit recordings, his resume has grown to include everyone from Toby Keith, Jonathan Butler and Najee to Bob James, Rick Braun, Jeffrey Osborne, Phil Perry, Jeff Lorber, Kirk Franklin, Jonathan Fritzen, Julian Vaughn, Blake Aaron, Lebron, Riley Richard and the late Nick Colionne.

Reaching yet another creative milestone in a dual career as an artist/producer that has earned him 26 #1 Billboard singles and multiple Grammy nominations, Darren Rahn’s highly anticipated new full length album Rock The World offers a message of love, faith, and hope through music in these challenging times.

https://album.link/i/1605391400

Sugaray Rayford - In Too Deep (2022)

 

Sugaray Rayford returns with In Too Deep - following up to his 2020 Grammy® nominated Somebody Save Me, an album which also earned Rayford two major Blues Music Awards for B.B. King Entertainer and Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year (2 straight years). Combining classic soul melodies with funky R & B grooves, raw blues power and mashed up with modern sensibilities, the album takes on social issues, such as, PTSD, civil rights and social justice. With vibrantly detailed arrangements tailored to showcase Rayford's deft portrayals and interpretations, In Too Deep is a poignant album that seeks to inspire and uplift. Albumism described Rayford as having "a sound that's undeniably fresh and inspired," while PopMatters declared it "will appeal to fans of Gary Clark Jr. and Chicano Batman." At his core, Sugaray Rayford is a galvanising uniter. His live shows are a party. Some conversations may be had, and some self-reflection may occur, but at the end of the day, people leave feeling a sense of joy and togetherness

Title: In Too Deep

Year Of Release: 2022

Label: Forty Below Records

Genre: Soul, Funk, Blues

Total Time: 37:51

Tracklist:

1. Invisible Soldier (3:54)

2. In Too Deep (3:34)

3. No Limit to My Love (4:26)

4. Under the Crescent Moon (3:43)

5. Miss Information (3:48)

6. Please Take My Hand (3:04)

7. One (4:09)

8. Gonna Lift You Up (3:31)

9. Golden Lady of the Canyon (3:40)

10. United We Stand (4:08)

https://album.link/i/1592461310

Kris Barras Band - Death Valley Paradise (2022)

Kris Barras Band return armed with towering anthems on the heaviest album to date; 'Death Valley Paradise', available on CD, transparent red vinyl and digitally. Produced by Dan Weller (Enter Shikari, Bury Tomorrow, SiKth) and recorded at VADA Studios in Alcester, they return heavier, darker, more introspective but enormous at the same time. Barras decided to remove all shackles and began collaborating with songwriters, such as the heavyweights; Jonny Andrews (Three Days Grace, Fozzy), Bob Marlette (Alice Cooper, Airbourne, Rob Zombie), Blair Daly (Halestorm, Black Stone Cherry) and Zac Maloy (Shinedown, Tyler Bryant). Death Valley Paradise started life as a song before it was dissected and spread across the album. Death Valley is a place of extremes, where living things are said to not be able to survive. For 18 months the world stood still and the realisation set in that there was no control of ourselves anymore. For the ex-MMA/cage fighter, there was only one way out, to re-focus, and started with no preconceived plan for the album. But now, Death Valley Paradise is ready to be unleashed upon the masses, who are yearning to rock out, fist pumping in the air.

https://album.link/i/1591591461

Phil Buckle, Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson - Custom Made (2022)

 Tracklist:

01. Phil Buckle - Mark Against Your Name (feat. Virgil Donati)

02. Phil Buckle - Custom Made (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

03. Phil Buckle - Somebody to Rely On (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

04. Phil Buckle - Slippers (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

05. Phil Buckle - Keep It Up (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

06. Phil Buckle - Just Go (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

07. Phil Buckle - Money (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

08. Phil Buckle - Get That Thing (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

09. Phil Buckle - Welcome to My Hell (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

10. Phil Buckle - She's Just Got to Win (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

11. Phil Buckle - To the Coast (feat. Virgil Donati & Jimmy Johnson)

I’ve spent most of my life writing songs for other people. I love doing that. However, over the past years I've felt a very strong call to write for myself again. So I started.

But when you get up one day and say “ok, now do what you really want to do, write what you really want to write”, it’s quite a shock to discover that you don’t really know who or what you are anymore.

It came slowly. I had many false starts. There was too much overthinking and trying to please some invisible “cool” young sector of some imaginary audience.

The songs started to flow when I decided to just be me. Warts and all. To be as honest as I can and if someone likes it then, great.

So here is my album starting with first single "Custom Made". I will then release a few more singles along with videos followed by the album........and then followed by some new singles that I'm working on right now.

I am joined by my old friend and former band mate Virgil Donati on drums and my new friend Jimmy Johnson on Bass. These guys took the tracks to another planet. If you know of these legends then I need say no more.

https://album.link/i/1609164610