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Canadian Blues Master Wailin' Al Walker Hits #1 With New Album 'Bluesman'

 

Vancouver bluesman Al “Wailin’” Walker has spent nearly five decades proving that the blues is not a genre you retire from. His eighth self-produced album, 'Bluesman', has landed at #1 on the Roots Music Report Canada chart and #13 debut this month on the Canadian Big Blues Chart, powered by worldwide blues radio hosts, the latest chart-topper in a catalogue that stretches back to 1978, and a career built almost entirely on his own terms.

Walker wrote, produced, engineered and mixed 'Bluesman' himself, a role he has filled on every one of his eight albums, from his 1978 debut, 'Rock It Day and Night', with his band the Houserockers, through 'The Devil Made Me Play It', 'Buzzsaw Boogie', 'Crazy at Night', 'No Regrets', 'All Fired Up' and 'Blues Lightnin’'. The last three releases have each reached #1 on the Roots Music Report charts in Canada, and 'Bluesman' has now added a number six placement on the US Roots Music Chart, with airplay on 57 stations worldwide.

The album’s lead single, “Too Many Bills,” has already reached number one on the Roots Music Report Top 50 chart in both the US and internationally, and drew praise from Blues Blast Magazine. Recorded with longtime collaborators Bruce O’Neill on bass, Marko Ibarra on drums, Darryl Havers on keyboards and Jerry Cook on saxophone, the track pairs a driving, high-energy groove with the raw grit Walker has built his reputation on.

Walker leads the Wailin’ Walker Band out of Vancouver with bassist Bruce O’Neill, drummer Marko Ibarra, saxophonist Jerry Cook and keyboardist Dave Webb, all fixtures of the city’s West Coast blues, jazz and roots scene. It is a lineup with deep roots of its own: Ibarra spent more than twenty years as Jerry Doucette’s drummer, Cook earned a 2026 CBMA nomination for Best Sax Player on Walker’s 'All Fired Up', and O’Neill has held down the Vancouver blues scene’s low end since 1982.

Across 'Bluesman’s' ten tracks, Walker moves between original songs and tributes to the artists who shaped him. “It Takes Time” is a cover of his mentor Otis Rush, recorded, Walker says, to honour “his iconic Chicago blues blueprint” and let “his signature guitar work and emotional depth breathe.” “Directly From My Heart” reworks Little Richard, and “Blues Hour” brings in Hollywood Fats Band alumni Richard Innes and Larry Taylor.

Two tracks carry weight. “Drink Muddy Water,” a cover of Eddie Miller, features the final recorded guitar performance of the late Jerry Doucette, with whom Walker played for twelve years. “Never Getting Old,” the album’s closing track, was co-written with the late Evan Johns, a friend and collaborator whose songwriting partnership with Walker stretched back years before his passing.

Walker’s history in the blues runs deeper than his own catalogue. He has been personally mentored by Buddy Guy, Pee Wee Crayton and Otis Rush, and has shared stages with Johnny Winter, George Thorogood and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Buddy Guy has said simply, “He plays the stuff like it’s supposed to be played,” while Otis Rush praised his diction: “His elocution is incredible! I can hear every word he sings from the back of the club!” Walker was also a member of the Jerry Doucette Band from 2006 to 2018, served as the house band at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom for 78 shows, and has written songs recorded by Long John Baldry and Powder Blues.

The band celebrates the release of 'Bluesman' with an Album Release and Dance on Saturday, November 14.

Sasha Persholja

 

 

It’s just me, myself, and I, doing my music. I do everything from silence to the final product. I mainly write and produce my music in my home. I don’t do any shows at this point. My reasons for doing so now is I still have a lot of ideas I want to write and produce in my music before releasing it to the public venue scene, or collaborating with others in concerts etc. On the upside of it all, I have a lot of finished product for new and old fans to listen to from me and my band.

My very first song was written and produced in Solvenian called “Uzela si mi vse” which means, “you took all from me.” I dedicated that song to a girl who ripped out my heart. Basically the song was based on me getting my heart-broken which we all have or will experience in some point of our lives. As far as my favorite songs goes, I will have to go with one of my very own. My reason for this is because it tells about a very compromising position in Central European slang. The position describes a guy in traffic jam stuck with a crazy woman behind the wheel. “Crawling King Snake“ by John Lee Hooker and the Doors also because I like a woman to crawl all over me.

My most memorable performance was on the Cross-boarder with Italy called The Battle for Socialistic Democracy. On the other hand, my worst performance was when I did a Jimi Hendrix memorial concert here in the city of Trst (Europe), Italy a local area and capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and of Trieste provincial, northeastern Italy, located on the Gulf of Trieste at the northeastern corner of the Adriatic Sea 90 miles (145 km) east of Venice. Two guys at my performance were throwing stones on the stage and of course it was not popcorn!

The only other highlight in my life other than staying focus and remaining humble in whatever I do in life is introducing my music to world successfully is farming. Yes I am a farmer also, and I love doing it as well! The low points in my music career are numbered high but I keep myself busy with move forward, staying positive abount my low points, and integrating new ideas into my music.

We have two new projects with a new band coming up soon.

https://sashapersholja.com/

Dammit Goldie - Pardon My Intrusion

 

New band  from Hamilton Canada, seems like a cool place for music, Monster Truck and Madison Galloway to name a couple anyway! So this is the modern rock sound of Dammit Goldie, who have released 4 previous single this year. "Pardon My Intrusion" is their 5^th single release from the band. The band are a quartet with a lot of different influences going off in their music. The guys have said they`re planning to release another 3 singles, before putting out their debut full length album in new year.

BIO Dammit Goldie is a band from Hamilton, Ontario, known for their energetic performances and eclectic sound. Their music blends elements of rock, punk, metal and alternative, creating a unique and dynamic sound that is equal parts innovative and familiar.

 

 

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INTERCONTINEN7AL, The World's First Rock Band To Record Across All Seven Continents, Releases "Lighthouses (Acoustic Remix)"

INTERCONTINEN7AL, the project that bills itself as the first rock band in history to record music across all seven continents, releases "Lighthouses (Acoustic Remix)" out now, a moody, folk leaning reinterpretation of a track originally featured on the band's 2022 record, ‘Volume 3.’

The original "Lighthouses" began almost by accident. Freehold, New Jersey-born, now Castle Rock, Colorado-based bandleader Matt Smith was experimenting with synth effects on his phone in September 2021 when he recorded a one-minute descending bass line in A minor with a trip hop feel, uploading it to the band's shared BandLab folder just to see if anyone connected with it. A month later, his cousin Alex Burke added haunting piano chords to the intro, and the darker turn convinced Smith the song needed to become something more, a minor key duet about a relationship reaching its end. He wrote the lyrics and vocal melody in about 20 minutes, drawing on the feeling of his own past relationships winding down. 

Remarkably, the vocal take that made the final mix was his very first attempt, recorded straight into his phone's microphone, a performance he could never quite recreate no matter how many times he tried. Bandmate Becca Drayer joined as the female half of the duet, and Argentina based Gustavo Prida reworked Smith's original drum programming to give the track its finished shape.

Two years later, in October 2023, Smith set out to rebuild the song entirely. He stripped away the original synth bass line and replaced it with a slide Drop D acoustic guitar riff while keeping the melody intact, softened the drum programming into more of a brush kit feel, and brought in longtime collaborator Marcin Nawrocki from Poland to record a new bass line to anchor the track. The rework took years of returning to the mix in stages before Smith felt it was finally ready for a wider audience this fall.

The result trades the original's electronic texture for something rawer. "You were my beacon, but now our love has weakened," the duet opens, building toward the song's central image: "When the lights go out, safe harbor cannot be found, when the lights go out, best swim before we drown." Reviewing the track, Alt77 likened the Smith and Drayer duet to "the equally darkly romantic duets between Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell."

INTERCONTINEN7AL's story is unlike any other band. What began in March 2020 as members of the Columbia, Maryland band Toast trying to keep collaborating remotely during the pandemic grew, through Smith's use of BandLab's public creator tools, into a project spanning more than 30 musicians across 15 countries. 

Inspired by the Foo Fighters' Sonic Highways concept, Smith set out to find a musician on every continent, including Antarctica, eventually recruiting two researchers stationed there to record parts for the progressive rock track "Manor Hill." The band takes its name and stylized "7" from Tool's "7empest," and its catalogue now spans seven volumes of original material. Within these volumes, there are five original songs that include instrumentation recorded on all seven continents. All five songs are compiled together on the band's ‘World Over’ EP. True to its collaborative spirit, every dollar of streaming revenue from INTERCONTINEN7AL's music is donated to humanitarian causes, including Stand Up 2 Cancer, Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, St John's Hospice, the International Rescue Committee, the International Justice Mission and the GoFundMe COVID-19 Global Relief Fund.

That story has earned the band coverage from more than 200 news, music and media outlets, including Rolling Stone en Español, Spin, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Denver Post and Earmilk, among many others. The Big Takeover has called the project's music-first approach one where the songs "speak volumes" despite the scale of the recording feat behind them, while Earmilk described the experience of the band's World Over EP as "an audio journey unlike any other."

As a project built entirely on remote collaboration across continents, INTERCONTINEN7AL has no touring plans, true to the borderless, virtual nature of how the band has always operated. With "Lighthouses (Acoustic Remix)," the band proves that same spirit works just as well stripped down to a single acoustic guitar and two voices as it does with musicians recording from opposite ends of the globe.

INTERCONTINEN7AL Band Members:
Matt Smith, Castle Rock, Colorado, USA, guitar, vocals, production
Becca Drayer, Columbia, Maryland, USA, vocals
Marcin Nawrocki, Torun, Poland, bass
Gustavo Prida, Buenos Aires, Argentina, drum programming
Alex Burke, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA, bass, synth
Josh Pearlson, Johannesburg, South Africa, guitar, synths, bass
Jukerok, Cairo, Egypt, guitar, piano
Aymar de Lichtervelde, Princess Elisabeth Station, Antarctica (resides in Brussels, Belgium), guitar, piano
Stijn Thoolen, Concordia Station, Antarctica (resides in Boston, Massachusetts, USA), percussion
Nerse, Chiang Mai, Thailand, violin, guitar, banjo
Tanabata (aka Tnbt), Kanazawa, Japan, drums
Robert James Shoveller, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia, guitar
Andrasta, Cleethorpes, United Kingdom, vocals
Miami73, Chambéry, France, guitar
Rousevision, Darmstadt, Germany, guitar, piano
Kelly Wandless, Gateshead, United Kingdom, vocals, guitar
Michael Ahart, Wicomico Church, Virginia, USA, percussion, production
Emily Betz, Columbia, Maryland, USA, vocals
Hope Gray, San Francisco, California, USA, vocals
Jamie Miller, Columbia, Maryland, USA, drums, djembe, cajon
Nereo Paulus, Buenos Aires, Argentina, bass, guitar, vocals, mandolin
Darren Fellows, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, piano, guitar
Jeff Hobbs, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom, guitar
Rieneke van Laarhoven, Arnhem-Nijmegen, Netherlands, vocals
David Green, Chico, California, USA, guitar, vocals
Debby Greene, Columbia, Maryland, USA, vocals
Devin Heritage, Edgewater, Maryland, USA, bass
Dale Pearson (aka Dirty D), San Diego, California, USA, saxophone (deceased)
Ben Gaither, Columbia, Maryland, USA, vocals, guitar (deceased)
Ruslan, Chelyabinsk, Russia, guitar, synths
Yaroslav, Kyiv, Ukraine, guitar, drum programming

Canadian Blues-Rock Legends TRIBZ Look Back On First Love With Nostalgic New Single "Young Love"

Hamilton and Toronto's TRIBZ release "Young Love" out now, a pop-rock ballad that trades the band's usual social urgency for something quieter and deeply personal, a trip back to first love, sweet sixteen and the memories time can never fully take away. For a band built on more than a century of combined musical history, it is a fitting turn inward, tracing the story all the way back to where guitarist Earl Johnson's own journey in music truly started.

The song comes directly from Johnson's own life. The melody had been living in his head for years, its chords deliberately written to capture the excitement and simplicity of being young, and the lyrics draw from his real first love, a girlfriend named Linda he dated for about three years through high school. Introduced by his best friend Mike, who was dating Linda's friend Wendy, Johnson and Linda were in the same grades, walked to and from school together every day and spent Friday nights dancing to Motown on the radio, the kind of romance that feels, at sixteen, like it could never end. "We were high school sweethearts, from the day we met, walking hand in hand, everywhere we went," the song begins, building to the hook at its centre: "Young love, thought it would last forever, forever would you be mine."

The relationship eventually gave way to the pull of music, and at 18 Johnson left high school to go on tour with the legendary King Biscuit Boy, the first step on a path that would carry him through the founding of the cult rock band Moxy and, decades later, into TRIBZ itself. He still has Linda's picture. Decades on, that memory became the seed for "Young Love," proof that even a life spent on the road never fully lets go of where it began.

That sense of history runs through everything TRIBZ does. Frontman Errol Starr Francis won a JUNO for his 1989 hit "Angel" before stepping away from his A&M Records career at its peak, a story now told in the acclaimed documentary 'Temple of Love: The Erroll Starr Story.' Johnson's own résumé includes founding Moxy, whose 1976 debut featured Tommy Bolin on lead guitar and whose touring days included AC/DC opening for them in Texas in 1977, alongside dates with Black Sabbath and Santana. Bassist Donny Hill has recorded and toured with fellow JUNO winner Murray Porter and shared stages with Blue Rodeo, while drummer Dave Davidson brings more than four decades behind the kit, including a long run with The American Rogues. Together they represent one of the more quietly influential lineups working in Canadian music today.

TRIBZ was born from that shared history colliding in a pandemic era garage jam, and the band has carried its founding spirit, different backgrounds coming together as one unit, into every release since. Earl Johnson and Donny Hill are proud members of the Six Nations Tuscarora and Mohawk communities respectively, and Errol Starr Francis is an adopted member of the ASMINTI Anishinabek Metis Nation, a mix the band has always described as different tribes uniting under a single message of love, hope and empowerment.

Since their self titled 2024 album, TRIBZ has moved fluidly across styles, from the blues rooted reflection of "True Love" to the grief and healing of "Memories," the reggae inflected call to action of "Save the World" and the southern swagger of "Long Black Cadillac." "Young Love" marks a different kind of turn for the band, less a statement to the world than a memory shared, the sound of musicians with decades behind them still finding new ways to be honest.
With "Young Love," TRIBZ offers a reminder that behind every legendary career is a much simpler story, the one about the first person who made you believe forever was possible.

Fort Erie Roots Rocker René Huard Unveils New Single "Tail Waggin'" Ahead Of Album 'Gently Used'

  

 

Fort Erie, Ontario blues and roots rocker René Huard has released his new single "Tail Waggin'," out now and giving fans their first taste of his forthcoming album 'Gently Used', arriving November 5, 2026.

 The song traces back to an old bit of guitar-world folklore. René Huard explains: "Based on an anecdotal urban legend, jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery replied to a journalist's question, 'Do you find time to practice guitar while you're touring?' Wes quipped, 'I just open the guitar case every once and a while, and toss a chunk steak in.' Ding-a-ling-a-ling, went the Pavlovian songwriter bell in my brain. Life on the road, wearisome, tedious, sometimes perilous! Didn't B.B. King run into a burning building to save Lucille? Guitar man's best friend, sharp teeth and strings that bend."

The accompanying video, produced by Jim Casson, brings that story to life, threading a wry sense of humour through the very real grind of life on the road, and the bond between a travelling musician and the instrument that keeps him company through it.

 "Tail Waggin'" leads into 'Gently Used', an eleven-track collection written and performed by René Huard on vocals, guitar and harmonica, produced by longtime collaborator Rick Taylor, who also contributes guitar and vocals. The record follows with two additional singles, with video: "Brand New Low," out October 5, and the title track, "Gently Used," out November 5.

 On the road, and recording studio, Huard is backed by the Project band, featuring Rick Taylor on guitar and vocals, Jeff Muir on bass and Peter Griffin on drums, with special guest contributions to the record from: Chris Airyes and Thomas Nelson on vocals, Alistair Robertson on saxophone and Ed Roth on keys. The band has built solid grassroots following across the Niagara Region, playing summer festivals including the Canal Bank Blues Shuffle in Thorold and Donnelly's.

 Huard's musical roots run four decades deep from his early days fronting the Meteors, who opened for blues heavyweights James Cotton, Long John Baldry and the Downchild Blues Band, and appeared at the first-ever Ottawa Blues Festival. He's also known to Canadian audiences as the former host of the television series Antique Hunter and Antique Style.

 His previous album, 'Blues Calling', produced by Jack de Keyzer, climbed into the Top 20 on the Roots Music Report and held the number eleven spot for several months. Its lead single, "Hard Times," found its way to Holger Petersen's CBC Blues Radio Show, along with U.S. and international podcasts and campus radio playlists.

 With 'Gently Used', René Huard adds another chapter to a career built on the road, in the clubs, and among the musicians who shaped him, proof that four decades in, the songs are still coming, and the guitar case is staying open for more than just steak.