Koko Taylor - Crown Jewels
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Every respectable Blues fan on the planet has come across, sooner or later, to the talent of one of the greatest Blues Queens of the last 50-plus years, the American singer and songwriter Koko Taylor.
Taylor's start in music wasn't one of the easiest, with losing her mother at a very young age and having to work her way up in life through hard graft, like by looking after children of families working in the same grasshoppers farm, where Koko was also living in, back then.
Samantha Schmütz & Adrian Younge - Samantha And Adrian
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Crossover, for the future of music, its continuity through time and development through experimentation, has become a vital concept and a key word to ensure that music is going to progress and move forward, for centuries to come.
But forward thinking and progression attitude, in music, also need using lessons from the past, by safeguarding musical guidelines created through the decades that have provided the learning platforms for millions of artists that have used them as the backbone to build their careers and by recording albums and music in general that would, hopefully, will stay in people's minds for the eternity.
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Live - O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, 18th July 2025
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
It's an auspicious occasion for the United Kingdom and Blues-Rock lovers; one of the most celebrated, talented, respected and greatly loved American Blues-Rock artists, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, returns to the British shores after a 2-years hiatus, with his Band and with a very Special Guest, a living legend of the Blues, the 91-years-old singer-songwriter and Harmonica Maestro Bobby Rush.
As previously amply documented through our website and by the whole music media worldwide, Shepherd and Rush have released, early this year, a formidable record called Young Fashioned Ways, where the two artists celebrated two different generations of Blues coming together, with, if we may add, a hugely remarkable vocal and sonic outcome.
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