Spencer Mackenzie

 

‘New Artist of the Year’ Maple Blues Award winner, Spencer Mackenzie, has an insightful musical expression emerging from his body and the only explanation is an old soul residing within! He has a deep, soulful, true to the blues sound, with an electrifying twist that captivates his audience. There is no question that musicians should be judged by ability and not by age, and that is certainly the case with blues artist Spencer Mackenzie…”his guitar playing is crisp and clean even as it delivers some down-to-the bone licks…He’s got the blues power in his soul...” – Blues Blast Magazine (USA).

​His debut album in 2016 ‘Infected with the Blues’ released in May 2016 earned rave reviews and consistently had international airplay hitting the Top 50 Roots Music Report Blues Charts. "Goodbye Lucille is the best musical tribute to BB King I've ever heard....." -Blues Matters Magazine (UK). Spencer and his original song "Devil Under her Skin" took a 3rd place WIN in the Blues Category at the 2016 International Songwriting Competition! 

 

 https://www.spencermackenzie.ca/

Boz Scaggs

 

William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. An early bandmate of Steve Miller in The Ardells and the Steve Miller Band, he began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until his 1976 album Silk Degrees peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, and produced the hit singles "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown". Scaggs produce two more platinum-certified albums in Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, the latter of which produced two top-40 singles "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo". After a hiatus for most of the 1980s, he returned to recording and touring in 1988, joining the The New York Rock and Soul Revue and opening the nightclub Slim's, a popular San Francisco music venue until it closed in 2020. He has continued to record and tour throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, with his most recent album being 2018's Out of the Blues. 

 

 https://www.bozscaggs.com/

 

 

Guanipa King Band

 

 

A Spanish Blues Rock trio where the Guanipa King Band follows the musical school of great artists such as Joe Cocker, B.B.King, passing through Buddy Guy or John Lee Hooker among others, as a reference. "Guitar Man" is the title of the third album by Guanipa King Band, which they have published this year 2020 through Rock CD Records. The pandemic has slowed down its evolution to present it on stage. Eleven songs of Blues Rock Social, as the Guanipa King Band like to call themselves. With a very classy live show, lyrics with a message, a lot of strength and a taste for honest music without shrillness.

Angel Sucheras

 

 

The tradition of the southern United States revisited by the renowned pianist and singer Angel Sucheras. The cauldron where the different musical cultures that gave rise to jazz such as blues and gospel and indigenous and Caribbean influences merge.Angel Sucheras & “New Orleans Spirits” Music from southern Louisiana, influenced by the rhythms of Mardi Gras, a festive tradition. The New Orleans Carnival and its various styles reflected in a super dynamic show. Leo Cejas, electric bass, double bass and choirs. Diego Alejandro, drums, percussion and choirs. Angel Sucheras, piano and voice.

 

 https://twitter.com/angelsucheras

The Rank Outsiders

 

 

The Rank Outsiders are four seasoned musos cobbled together from the big smoke of Melbourne to The Great Ocean Rd. They love nothing more than the sound of vintage guitars played through fine amplification, a little denim… and a smattering of facial hair. Schooled in the great deeds of acts such as SRV, early ZZ Top, Freddie King, Clapton, The Allman Bros, Jimi Hendrix, Los Lobos, Georgia Satellites and the original Fleetwood Mac to name a few, the boys deploy a classy trove of their own tunes at every opportunity and can delve into an extensive repertoire of blues and R’n’B covers when required.

 https://www.therankoutsiders.com

Radionomy

 

Radionomy was an online platform that provided tools for operating online radio stations. It was part of Radionomy Group, a company which later acquired the online streaming platform SHOUTcast from Nullsoft, and eventually consolidated Radionomy into its SHOUTcast service.  

The name of Radionomy is a contraction of two words: radio + autonomy. Radionomy allows users to create their own online radio or listen to online radio, all created and programmed by users. Through a platform called RMO, they can choose music, chronic and radio jingles or they wish to broadcast their radio. They can add their own audio content including own musical pieces, jingles. Moreover, it is possible to make live broadcasts.

Radionomy acquired copyright license for its music content through SABAM. It generates revenue to pay royalties and other operating costs by broadcasting up to four minutes per hour of advertising. 

 Radionomy was founded in September 2007 by four Belgian entrepreneurs: Alexandre Saboundjian Gilles Bindels, Cedric van Kan and Yves Baudechon.

On 1 January, Radionomy shut down its streaming service and migrated towards the Shoutcast platform. This move was part of the group's wish to offer all digital radio producers new professional-quality tools to better meet their needs.

www.shoutcast.com

Down South Pepper band

 

 

Down South Pepper band is from Kvalsund in Norway, we have been making and playing music since the mid 80's. Today we mostly do country and americana music.

We have released several songs that has been on heavy rotation on country radio all over the world. Some of the songs: Coming Back to Town, Easy Going Guy, Northern Boy, Grandpa on the Floor, That's How the Money Gets Around and several others. All our songs are available on Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, Amazon and all other streaming services. You can also see our videos on our YouTube channel.

DSP band are Rune Nyby and Per Øyvind Mathisen.

 https://twitter.com/the_dsp_band

 

Super sonic Blues Machine

 

An ever evolving music community of friends and guests that’s aimed to bring the crowds a true “one of kind” music experience, just like you could have lived as an active music lover & concert goer at the end of the 60’s or early 70’s! 

After touring as the rhythm section of the jam band Goodfellas (side project of legendary guitarist Steve Lukather), Italian born (but American naturalized producer/writer/bass-player) Fabrizio Grossi (Steve Vai, Steve Lukather, George Clinton & P-Fink, Billy F.Gibbons, Alice Cooper, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Gales etc.) and New York native (but Indiana raised) drumming legend Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, John Fogerty, BB King, Paul McCartney, Dr. John, Smashing Pumpkins , etc.) wanted to continue and expand the Goodfellas concept. Cementing their rhythmic chemistry with lots of live performances, and studio projects featuring recordings with artists such as Leslie West, Joe Bonamassa, Slash, Zakk Wylde , etc., their determination to create something more than just a “session ensemble for hire” grew exponentially. 

It was when living legend Billy F. Gibbons (of ZZ TOP fame) contacted Fabrizio to collaborate on the writing/production of a song for an up-coming commercial, that all pieces came together. The song didn’t become a commercial after all, but had Gibbons giving Fabrizio the suggestion to write “9 more songs” and start a band, with whom he would have loved to jam with whenever ZZ Top’s schedule would allow it. Kenny Aronoff immediately tracked drums to it, and the song “Running Whiskey” ended up becoming the first single of Supersonic Blues Machine’s . Several other legendary musicians such as Warren Haynes, Eric Gales, Lance Lopez, Robben Ford, Walter Trout and Chris Duarte joined the party, very successfully narrated in the band first release. 

In what it could sound like a movie plot, Fab calls the band’s UK label office to verbally give them the news about Lopez departure. Before he could even say “hello”, he was met by the label’s enthusiasm about a new signing, a successful MMA fighter champion, turned guitar hero by the name of Kris Barras, who was taking the UK by the storm. Fab, who was already familiar with the bearded & tattooed artist from Devon tells the executives “ well , then I might need that dude’s phone number, before he gets bigger than Clapton , I’ll tell you why later…” 

A couple of calls was all that it took to get Kris on a plane to LA, where he was met by Fab and none other than the band’s Godfather : Reverend Gibbons. After a Tequila fueled night and 3 days of jamming , he was “made” Supersonic’s new front man ! 

 https://www.supersonicbluesmachine.com

Derek & the Dominos

 

 

Derek & the Dominos was a group formed by guitarist/singer Eric Clapton (born Eric Patrick Clapp, March 30, 1945, Ripley, Surrey, England) with other former members of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, in the spring of 1970. The rest of the lineup was Bobby Whitlock (b. 1948, Memphis, TN) (keyboards, vocals), Carl Radle (b. 1942, Oklahoma City, OK -- d. May 30, 1980) (bass), and Jim Gordon (b. 1945, Los Angeles) (drums). The group debuted at the Lyceum Ballroom in London on June 14 and undertook a summer tour of England. From late August to early October, they recorded the celebrated double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (November 1970) with guitarist Duane Allman sitting in. They then returned to touring in England and the U.S., playing their final date on December 6.

The Layla album was successful in the U.S., where "Bell Bottom Blues" and the title song charted as singles in abbreviated versions, but it did not chart in the U.K. The Dominos reconvened to record a second album in May 1971, but split up without completing it. Clapton then retired from the music business, nursing a heroin addiction.

In his absence, and in the wake of Allman's death in a motorcycle accident on October 29, 1971, the Dominos and Layla gained in stature. Re-released as a single at its full, seven-minute length in connection with the compilation album History of Eric Clapton (Atco 803) (March 1972), "Layla" hit the Top Ten in the U.S. and the U.K. in the summer of 1972. (It would return to the U.K. Top Ten in 1982.) A live album, Derek and the Dominos in Concert (January 1973), taken from the 1970 U.S. tour, was also a strong seller.

Time has only added to the renown of the group, which is now rated among Eric Clapton's most outstanding achievements. The 1988 Eric Clapton box set retrospective Crossroads featured material from the abortive second album sessions. The Layla Sessions was a 1990 box set expanding that album across three CDs/cassettes. Live at the Fillmore (1994) offered an expanded version of the In Concert album.

 

 

Brighton 64

 

Brighton 64 were formed in Barcelona in the fall of 1981, when Albert Gil and Ricky Gil, brothers of the actress Ariadna Gil, highly influenced by the British mod scene that they were beginning to discover through records and movies, decided to join forces with various colleagues studies and began to rehearse versions of The Who, The Jam, The Kinks and Chuck Berry. Quickly adopted by enthusiasts, especially Barcelona mods, they began to play in venues around the city such as Pub Boira and Salón Cibeles, culminating this first stage with their appearance on the TVE program “Musical Express” and a performance at Rock-Ola from Madrid. Barely a year after its formation, the group recorded its first album, the maxi single "Barcelona Blues", released in April 1983 by the independent Flor y Nata Records. They present the album in the Zeleste room with a full house, evidencing that they have already become a benchmark of the powerful Barcelona independent scene of the 80s. 

The following year they published the single "Stop playing my girl", and immediately afterwards they traveled to Rome to perform at a festival and make their debut abroad. The entry of drummer Tino Peralbó leads to the recording of the mini-LP Haz el amor, published by Twins and containing a good portion of hymns such as “LaNext Time”, “Photos of Yesterday” or “Explosión Juvenil Nº 17”. Shortly after, the incorporation of an old friend of the group, Jordi Fontich, as keyboard player, stabilized the group, and the multinational EMI signed the group and published in 1986 the maxi single "La casa de la bomba" with great sales success and strong radio and television promotion. The presentation of the album at Studio 54 in Barcelona was a success and “La casa de la bomba” won the Radio 3 listeners award for best song of the year. 

The band combines an endless tour with the hasty and problematic recording for EMI of the LP "The problem is age", which despite containing great songs like "Like we don't care" or "Get going for me", is harmed by the lack of confidence on the part of the record company, which cracks the morale of the musicians. In September 1987 they performed before the most massive audience of their career during the Mercè festival in Barcelona, ​​but internal tensions began to surface and the group ended up giving way to the Gil brothers' next project, the Brigatones. In 1994, the first and tremendous gathering of Brighton 64 took place in Barcelona (Apolo room) and Madrid (Revolver room), sharing the stage with Los Flechazos, Los Negatives, Scooters, Los Kanguros and Kamenbert to celebrate the compilation album "Mi Generación" . At the end of 2001, Albert, Ricky, Tino and Jordi get together again to participate in the Purple Weekend festival in León, and Bip Bip Records publishes the album "Explosión Juvenil" live. 

In 2003, Ricky Gil publishes the book "Bola y Cadena" (Editorial Milenio), where he explains the history of the group from a totally personal point of view, and in 2006 Brighton 64 fills La Paloma in Barcelona to the brim. In all these meetings there has been a curious communion between the usual public and the new batch of fans who did not have the opportunity to see them live at the time.

 https://linktr.ee/brighton64bcn

Philip Kamm Madeira

 

 

Philip Kamm Madeira (born 1952) is an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer. He was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island, and attended Taylor University, graduating in 1975. His songs have been recorded by The Civil Wars, Buddy Miller, Alison Krauss, Toby Keith, Ricky Skaggs, Bruce Hornsby, Keb' Mo', Garth Brooks, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Cindy Morgan, Shawn Mullins, The North Mississippi Allstars. His co-writing partners include Will Kimbrough, Matraca Berg, Chuck Cannon, Cindy Morgan, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Gordon Kennedy, Keb' Mo', and Emmylou Harris. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Madeira has recorded three solo albums. Madeira received the Nashville Music Award (Nammy) for Best Keyboardist in 2000. He also received a Humanitarian award from ASCAP in 1986 for his raising consciousness and money for the Ethiopian hunger crisis. In 2009, he received the Dove Award for "Recorded Country Song of the Year" from the Gospel Music Association, for his song "I Wish", co-written with Cindy Morgan.

https://philmadeira.net/