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One of the most memorable Blues and Blues/Rock live acts, not solely in the United States but also in the rest of the world and especially in the decade starting from 1987 to 1997, was undoubtedly Omar & The Howlers.
The band, led historically by the singer and guitarist Omar Dykes, formed back in 1973 to then move, few years later, to Austin, Texas where their sonic combustion of electric and acoustic Blues, Blues/Rock and Cajun blossomed at its very best, to the point to be considered among the very few authentic torchbearers of a style of Texas Blues music that would bring Omar & The Howlers to get worldwide recognition for their sonic strength, musicianship and the unique powerful vocal skills of their band leader Omar Dykes.
Read more: Omar & The Howlers - Classic Live Performances Vol.1-4: 1990's

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One of the greatest gifts that an artform like Music in its entirety possesses, is that of allowing any listener to romanticize about it, by associating to the power of Music a moment in time in their lives that has a personal meaning. Naturally, a different one to everybody. But whatever said meaning is for any of us, there is something about the intensity of music, any music, no matter the genre. It might be a question of arrangement, uplifting bridges and choruses, the strength and passion emerging from vocal deliveries, fierce guitar solos or an artist's very personal songwriting that resonates with something happening in our personal lives at certain stages.
When it comes to intensity and its application to music, very few artists are able to express their devotion and unconditional dedication to it, that includes also a certain amount of physicality, more than the Texas-born Blues/Rock guitarist and singer/songwriter Chris Duarte, somebody that "feels" music through his own skin, even at the cost to have his fingers bleeding on stage, when he plays guitar, for the strength and athleticism that Duarte puts into his guitar playing.

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It is somehow baffling the way that some people look at a music genre like Bluegrass, often underestimating how much craft, musical knowledge, appreciation and talent run within those musicians who carry so passionately the torch of a genre that procures so much joy and good vibes to everybody.
In that respect, there are not so many bands, in the current music business, able to translate at the highest possible level the musical message of authentic pioneers of the genre like Bill Monroe And The Blue Grass Boys or Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt as well as the American quintet The Infamous Stringdusters does.
Read more: The Infamous Stringdusters - A Tribute To Flatt & Scruggs

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In these days and age, there are very few artists able to paint a global, sonic landscape of a country's own music and tradition through the decades, especially in a country like the United States, where there is a long and multi-layered history of Soul, Blues, R&B, Boogie, Country, Folk and the list goes on and on.
It is for this very same reason that a body of work like the one delivered by the Louisiana-born singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Nelson Blanchard, through his self-titled new record, deserves to be considered a modern masterpiece of Americana at every possible level.

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In a time of the world where we are surrounded by an enormous amount of pressure, expectations, where uncertainty for the future seems to be the constant point of concern for the whole humanity, it's hugely comforting to know that at least, Music is still there to provide for us those rare moments of inner peace, that brief time for escapism from reality that we so much crave for, at the end of another challenging day in our personal journey in life.
Creating atmospheres able to generate sonic feelings of strong spirituality and inner peace, has always been one of the strongest skills of the Italian Pianist and Composer Roberto Cacciapaglia, an artist whose compositions have always been inspired by space, nature and its many movements, all elements that have brought the Italian Composer to create immortal piano pieces, through the years, that are well known all over the world not only for the depth of melody they naturally possess, but also because of their intensity.

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2022 has been a highly successful year for the British/German singer/songwriter Roxanne De Bastion. The unanimous praises received from the English and European music press and from old and new fans for her latest studio album You & Me, We Are The Same, has brought this young and highly talented artist to the attention to wider and wider audiences, thanks also to an extensive amount of Tour dates, where De Bastion was also the Support Act for very big names of the music industry, like the Synth/Pop Master Howard Jones, among others.
De Bastion's aforementioned latest studio album has been and still is one of the highest points to date in the musical career of the London-based troubadour artist and the way that the crowds have increasingly embraced the sometimes minimalistic but highly effective sonic approach, inspired songwriting and vocal intensity of De Bastion, since her 2017 debut album called Heirlooms & Hearsay up until now, it is hugely impressive.
Read more: Roxanne De Bastion - Live At St. Pancras Old Church

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Every artist feels the concept of Music in different ways and releases his/her own interpretation of it according to their inner instinct or, perhaps, by compromising their musical skills and their vision with what can be seen as a contemporary sonic trend or the latest "Hip" kind of sound.
Thankfully, the multi-faceted Rock and Soul Dutch collective DeWolff belongs to the first category of the aforementioned artists, a band that keeps pushing their musical boundaries on each passing record towards a musical greatness that they have most certainly achieved through their brand new album called Love, Death And In Between.
