MALTED MILK

A masterpiece where Blues meets Americana, Louisiana and Cajun music…!
« Deeper In The Well » has been recorded in Louisiana, a place where the old styles survive and thrive and new sounds are born. Eric gathered exceptional Louisiana musicians as well as the legendary Jerry Douglas, top dobro country guitar player in the US who also contributed to the common project.

« Thusly assembled, in beautiful, not-too-hot, bayou weather, the seven of us, brothers of varying hue, came to record a celebration of our shared Americana héritage : “Deeper In The Well”. »
Eric Bibb

Lightnin' Guy just won the belgian Blues Challenge and will represent Belgium at the next European Blues Challenge to be held in Berlin on 16 and 17 March 2012. He’s one of the hardest working performers in the Belgian blues & roots scene. He toured also through the Netherlands & Austria and played on the legendary Peer Blues, Kwadendamme Blues & Gouvy Jazz-Blues Festivals. With this album Lightnin’ Guy pays tribute to his slide guitar hero & inspiration by playing Hound Dog Taylor’s music in the same setting and with the same energy as he did. This album is a perfect alternative to recapture the magic of a Hound Dog Taylor concert.

Alexx & Lionel from "Alexx & MoOonshiners" are proud to present their acoustic project: "The MoOonshine tracks". The leading pair of the MoOons, along with the band, cooled things down while recording some acoustic tracks and indulged themselves in rerecording their favorite all-time songs, in a more intimate way: one voice, one acoustic guitar.

7 eclectic and varied rearranged covers, in which the warm and powerful vocals of Alexx and the at-once recognizable guitar playing of Lionel mingle perfectly. Swing, warmth and intimacy are yours to be picked up on the MoOonshine tracks. This new project from two Dixiefrog artists will entice the MoOonshiners' fan, unveiling a new side of this band, and will also appeal to amateurs of cooler melodies than the punky blues rock they're already distilling. Available in digital version only.

BLUES POWER BAND (BPB) is the most explosive group on the French Blues Rock music scène and their first album was awarded “Best Blues Album of the Year”. With over 500 concerts under their belts, BPB have become the benchmark in France when it comes to performing extraordinary shows. Famous for their creativity and energy, the Beeps (such is their nickname) know how to switch from a more “radical” style of music to something more orchestrated with arrangements for choirs, brass and strings. You want the proof: listen to « Dark Room »!

Born two years ago of the reunion in North Carolina of three young African-American players, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are rapidly growing into some-what of a phenomenon on the American blues circuit these days. Armed with 5-string banjos, fiddles, guitars, jugs, kazoos, spoons and various other percussive “instruments,” the CCD revisit the jug-band and Black string-band music of the ‘20s and ‘30s with the zest of the most energetic hip-hoppers and the acumen of old-time music pioneers. Although they remain faithful to the tradition, they have an atypical way of articulating their own artistic feelings. They’ve just cut “Leaving Eden”, produced by the legendary Buddy Miller.

BEST OF – 2 CDs – 32 FULLY REMASTERED SONGS
Including “’Libero,”, the song selected by Aki Kaurismäki for the soundtrack of his latest movie, Le Havre, with Little Bob cast in his own role.

Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki casted Little Bob in his latest feature, Le Havre, playing in theaters all over the world this fall. Little Bob plays his own role in the movie, and is featured with his band on “Libero,” a title chosen personally by Aki.

Aki KAURISMÄKI: “…Le Havre was a real discovery. A city marked by its strong working class past, its dockers and its old port. Musically speaking, Le Havre is the Memphis of France, and Little Bob the Elvis of French rock ‘n’ roll.”

He is bouncing back in a dazzling way towards a dynamic and groovy blues, at times even sticky with Rock and Louisiana influences. Guy Davis, Rod Piazza, Monster Mike Welch and David Maxwell invited themselves to the pagan celebration…! Lonely Number is the record I have always wanted to do, a real blues album where originality takes over tradition with the consent and the support of the masters and the peers.

It’s always exciting to listen to a new CD by Thorbjørn Risager. Dust & Scratches is the 6th CD in 7 years and contains 11 originals – 9 written by Thorbjorn and the remaining 2 by the newest member in the band, guitarist Peter Skjerning, and with horn arrangements by the band members: Kasper Wagner (sax) and Peter Kehl (trumpet). As usual the music spans from soulblues with funky horns to low-down and dirty blues which is more down-to-earth than ever. And ason all of the CD’s, and on the concerts, the seven-piece live band is backing Thorbjorns ”larger-than-life voice” – although this time, there are a few songs with a smaller lineup, without the horns, and one one track even down to a duo.

The formidable impersonator of Skip James in the Wim Wenders film Soul of a Man is back with a Delta-oriented album that mixes blues with gospel hymns, folk songs and country music. A colorful, deeply personal set written, produced and executed by Keith himself…!

Download the lyrics here.

After the international media and commercial success of his previous album “Five”, Mathis Haug has extracted himself from his Mathematiks in order to record an album whose style could be described as folk/blues. “Playing my Dues” contains 10 subtle songs and confirms the musical inventiveness of this artist. The minimalism of the arrangements leaves space for a voice with a very particular colour, which touches the heart and soul from the very start.

The Delta Saints have spent the last few years cultivating a serious buzz and a strong fan base around Nashville and throughout the American southeast. With their special brand of Blues, Swamp music, revisited Southern Rock and Funk, they epitomize a new generation of artists bearing the torch of glorious bands such as The Allman Brothers or The Black Crowes.

Bjørn Berge is a true virtuoso. Those who’ve seen him live can testify to the man’s astounding mastery of the 12-string guitar, to the bewildering fluency of his slide work. A mix between a steam train at full speed and a four-piece band. “Back Wood” gives proof that blues, heavy metal and country music share roots that have spawned tasty fruits in the North as well as the South!



Also available an interview and a live session video on the official Dixiefrog channel on YouTube

David Gogo is one of Canada’s hardest working blues-rock guitarists. His brand new Soul Bender album features great Gogo originals and a few covers that run the gamut of his influences (Procol Harum, Elmore James, The Doors, Michael Jackson), all infused with a Gogo twist!

The Duke Robillard Band returns with a collection of the high energy uptown and lowdown blues that Duke is so fond of, some of which he learned when he was a teenager! A dynamic album that brings out Duke’s ‘wildest’ guitar playing and singing yet. These ‘direct to 2 inch tape’ tracks have a great feeling of urgency.

MonkeyJunk, the award-winning Ottawa band, draws heavily on the legends of the blues and translates those influences into a contemporary blend of what the group defines as “swamp R&B, soul boogie and bedroom funk.” To Behold is the band’s second album — the first was the independently released Tiger in Your Tank, which got five awards at the Maple Blues Awards on 2010 (Electric Act of the Year. Entertainer of the Year. Guitar Player of the Year, Vocalist of the Year and Harmonica Player of the Year) and was named, just after, Best New Artist Debut at the Blues Awards in Memphis. Finally, MonkyJunk just got also three new awards at the Maple Blues Awards on 2011 : Electric Act of the Year. Drummer of the Year, Harmonica Player of the Year.

The missing link between legendary blues & boogie-woogie piano players (Champion Jack Dupree, Fats Domino…) and contemporary blues. Duke Robillard has produced the album and plays guitar on all the songs.

100% groove and soul! 5 unreleased tracks,just recorded by Lucky Peterson, served hot with the finest cuts of three fellow blues stars. Electric blues at its best. A must! During the nineties, Lucky Peterson and Joe Louis Walker have been at the forefront of a new generation of bluesmen who added a solid dose of funk and groove to the celebrated Chicago blues, creating a new and exciting form of contemporary music. Here you will find both of them alongside the Hendrix influenced prodigy that was Bill Perry who left us too soon and the Mississippi born Magic Slim, a veteran roots musician whose energy and roughness denotes a real rock 'n' roll attitude. This is a very coherent album mixing unreleased tracks by Lucky Peterson, just out of the studio, and masterpieces from previous recording sessions by three undisputed heroes of the electric blues guitar.

Rural roots, urban rock and tribal trance are the main ingredients of the new blues recipe brewed by Hell's Kitchen, with a little help from Rodolphe Burger (former leader of legendary European underground band Kat Onoma, no less). The surrealistic Swiss group fuses post-industrial influences and gutbucket blues with primal, hypnotic energy, light years away from the bland politically correct sounds of FM radio, from the creative vacuum of soulless virtuosity. Regardless of its non-EU origins, Hell's Kitchen proudly boasts European roots and American influences on this mindboggling piece of recording.

A spectacular selection of blues veterans at their exhilarating best at various venues across the 'Old Continent'. Dr. Burt, Eddie Tigner, Alabama Slim, Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen and Albert White, joined by Pura Fe' for the occasion, perform their own brand of Southern blues, getting warm responses from rapt audiences everywhere. These "Lost and Last Blues Survivors" show no sign of wanting to retire!