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It is easy to understand why the American Guitar Maestro and singer/songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd wanted to split into two separate musical entities a highly successful project like his latest, called Dirt On My Diamonds.
After the many praises received by press and fans, following last year’s release of the Vol.1 of the project, Shepherd and his band had clearly in their minds that the time was right to release the second half of Dirt On My Diamonds, given also the enthusiastic receptions showed by every crowd that attended the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band’s latest Tour, in support of the Volume 1 of the album.
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Every time that there is a new album release by the American singer/songwriter Billy Price, it always feels like a special event.
At the age of 74, the New Jersey-born artist keeps on delighting his audience and any Blues, Soul and R&B aficionado through this irresistible blend of genres that Price has mastered to perfection for many years now, a blend that can be very much enjoyed on the artist's brand new record called Person Of Interest.
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An artist can never foresee what the next step in his/her career is going to be, because very often and inevitably, through time, plans do change, because life changes around us.
When American cult Rock Band The Airborne Toxic Event released their last studio album called Hollywood Park, back in 2020, a record where the band's chief songwriter and frontman Mikel Jollett delved heavily on the early stages of his life and in particular, about his relationship with Jollett's father, an ex con man and ex heroin addict, with some of the songs written from the perspective of Jollett's father, it would have perhaps been an easy decision to write more about this difficult family dynamic on a follow-up record, given the consensus received from fans and press, when Hollywood Park got released.
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It's always challenging to review a new record, no matter the genres, where an artist surrounds him/herself by an array of Special Guests, playing literally on each and every song of said record.
While the attraction, for some music lovers and for a new body of work like the one mentioned above, may come from big names taking part to the record itself, it's when the album features the real core of the artist in question the factor that really elevates the overall quality of the finished product.
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Looking at the history and the development of a music genre like the Blues, especially throughout the last 6 decades, nobody on earth could deny that the American guitarist, producer and songwriter Steve Cropper has been and still is, at the tender age of 82, one of the greatest innovators of the genre, especially through the monumental body of work that Cropper did with Stax Records and, subsequently, with the cream of the Blues and Rock'N'Roll industry.
Forever considered a forward-thinker artist, somebody that would never sit comfortably on his fame and success, Cropper (and his unmistakable guitar playing style) has been the ultimate Guitar Maestro for any aspiring musician for so many years as he still is now, second perhaps only to the late great Jimi Hendrix, according to some worldwide press.