Colin James Finds the Blues While ‘Chasing the Sun’
Canadian blues artist Colin James rocks out on the guitar on a new album, Chasing the Sun, and reminds us of strings’ power to pull emotions out of one’s heart.
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Folk Legend Sylvia Tyson Ponders Life ‘At the End of the Day’
Sylvia Tyson’s At the End of the Day reveals a thoughtful romantic with a heart full of spit and fire. The album is theatrical in the highest sense.
Rory Block’s ‘Prove It on Me’ Pays Tribute to Women’s Blues
The songs on Rory Block's Prove It on Me express the strength of female artists despite their circumstances as second class citizens in both the musical world and larger American society.
‘The Lost Tapes’ of Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird
Stony Plain Records rounds up lost tapes from Canadian country/folk legends Ian and Sylvia Tyson performing as Great Speckled Bird in 1969. It was a very good discovery, indeed.