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"'Just play what you feel, be real about it, and enjoy yourself.' That's what Albert Collins taught me," says the award-winning guitar virtuoso and soul-deep singer Coco Montoya. The self-taught, left-handed Montoya mastered his craft under Collins' tutelage. Incorporating lessons learned from his mentors, the iconic Collins (for whom he originally drummed), and UK legend John Mayall, Montoya puts his own stamp onto every song he performs. Since his first […]

THE NIGHTHAWKS, Washington DC's legendary road warriors of blues and roots music , celebrate their 50th Anniversary with a brand new album – THE NIGHTHAWKS – ESTABLISHED 1972. Produced by the Nighthawks and longtime compadre David Earl, they took advantage of the pandemic slowdown to hunker down in Earl’s Severn Sound Studios in Annapolis, Maryland and crank out fourteen new tracks in the great Nighthawks tradition - rockin’, heartfelt material […]

After thousands upon thousands of gigs and easily a million miles traveled, iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® Inductee Alice Cooper revs up as loudly as ever on his new solo album “Road”. Produced by longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, it’s written, composed and recorded with his current touring band. Bringing everything full circle, it channels the spirit of old school Alice with instantly recognizable grit and plenty of gusto. […]

After working hard to establish himself on the Pacific Northwest music scene by playing in several popular bands, winning 18 “Best Of The Blues” awards from the Washington Blues Society and signing on as a featured Lee Oskar harmonica artist, singer-songwriter, blues harp man and graphic artist, Joel Astley, is poised to burst on to the national scene with his debut solo album, Seattle To Greaseland. The collection of eleven original […]

Seventy years is a long time. Seventy years before the late Bob Koester founded Delmar (later Delmark) Records while a college student in St. Louis, Buffalo Bill’s travelling Wild West Show debuted, Chester A. Arthur was president, Thomas Edison brought electric light to Roselle, NJ for the first time, and “Black Bart” was in the news for another stagecoach robbery. When Koester released his first record in 1953, many of […]