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2020 release. Ronnie Earl is a four-time Blues Music Award winner as 'Guitar Player of the Year,' and a world-renowned composer and musician. Most of his 26 albums have included chart-toppers and... more

Guitar Heroes: James Burton, Albert Lee, Amos Garrett, David Wilcox* Four Telecaster Masters shake up the rock and roll universe on this historic release. Guitar history was made on July 12, 2013... more

PINKY'S BLUES is a raw, electric guitar driven romp through the backroads of Texas, with Foley's signature pink paisley Fender Telecaster, 'Pinky' at the wheel. Pinky's Blues is a guitar driven... more

After giving herself to blues, jazz, folk, gospel and country, Maria fell hard for the sounds of New Orleans starting in the '90s. Teaming with the cream of the Crescent City crop, she digs deep into... more

Maria was so smitten with New Orleans street band Tuba Skinny that she asked them to play with her at the January 2020 International Folk Alliance Conference. Then the pandemic came—but that didn't... more

An almost all-instrumental blues guitar release by one of the most acclaimed guitarists of our time. With The Broadcasters, his band of over 25 years, Ronnie's latest 'live' release shows him to be... more

Rory Block is the winner of five Blues Music Association Awards including one for her last CD THE LADY AND MR. JOHNSON. Her new album is a tribute to Son House, one of histories most important blues... more

'Ol' Eon' is a Classic Ian Tyson release, now being re-issued in 2023! In 1973, when this Classic title was first released, Ian Tyson was still watching the West as he was seeing it change - and not... more

Ain't Nobody Worried is a tribute to some of the most iconic female soul & R&B artists of that ruled radio waves from the past five decades. Rory's arrangements of chart topping hits originally... more

2020 release from the blues guitarist. Duke Robillard's career path was forged in 1967 when he founded the iconic Roomful of Blues, later holding down the guitar spot in The Fabulous Thunderbirds... more

Texan folk hero Sir Doug Sahm meets underrated guitarist Amos Garrett and ex-Blasters keyboardist Gene Taylor and they cook like an Austin barbecue.

Over a four-decade career, there's not a lot Amos Garrett hasn't done. As one of the most distinctive guitar players since the Telecaster was invented, he's made almost a dozen albums of his own,... more

Taj Mahal, Pinetop Perkins and Alvin Youngblood Hart join Maria as she pays loving tribute to Memphis Minnie on this 2005 album. There's personality, playfulness and sultry singing to spare here: "I... more

While Sass Jordan is celebrated as a multi-platinum selling premiere rock singer, her 2020 album, Rebel Moon Blues, demonstrated that she sings the blues with as much power and authenticity as she... more

Carnero Vaquero includes 10 songs that can be described as true and clear as the western sky, the foothills of the Rockies and the changing cowboy tradition. The album's title - "Carnero" is the... more

Not only is Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne one of our foremost contemporary blues and boogie pianists, he's also extraordinarily well-versed on his chosen genre's proud history. Blues from Chicago to Paris... more

With a vault full of songs written over the past two years, both on the road and then in lockdown, it was a tough choice to select just 13 for this album. Colin James and his co-producer Dave... more

Regarded as pioneers of the folk & Americana genre, Ian & Sylvia's 'The Lost Tapes' features over 20 previously unreleased recordings, including many of Ian & Sylvia's classics, but also enough to... more

On the heels of Eric Bibb's Grammy nominated Migration Blues comes his most ambitious project to date, the 2-disc set Global Griot. It is easy to point to Eric's accomplishments. A five-decade career... more

Canada's longest-running indie label turns 40 this year. This 3-CD celebration pairs their most prized blues/roots tracks with rare and unreleased cuts: "Louis Riel" Doug Sahm, "Rivers of Babylon"... more

The fifth release in Rory's "Mentor Series" —previous editions were devoted to John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Son House—honors Skip James, one of the most important country... more

A 1963 backstage meeting with this country-blues legend got Rory started on her own journey toward greatness as a singer and guitarist. Her vocals are relaxed and soulful and her finger-picking... more

Maria Muldaur produced this new tribute to her blues hero Memphis Minnie. Along with her own performances of Me and My Chauffeur Blues and Crazy Cryin' Blues; you'll hear new recordings (Ain't... more

Rory met this Delta blues guitar master when she was 15, and it stayed with her ever since. She honors him on this 2011 album with a set of driving guitar tunes—his as well as tributes she wrote:... more

2009 release from the singer/songwriter, his first album in four years. A tough time for Ian Tyson yields an important new album of touching, heartfelt songs. Now, thanks to a stubborn virus, Tyson... more