Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears at Neumos
Black Joe Lewis will be back in Seattle this week, playing one night at Neumos on Thursday. I haven’t heard his Backlash album all the... Read more
Category: Funk
Video of the week: Please Please Please
Three contrasting covers of James Brown‘s Please Please Please. First Mike Zito‘s laid back, Midwestern twang; then The Godfather himself; and finally Black Joe Lewis‘... Read more
Video of the week: Fantastic Negrito
Fantastic Negrito – Honest Man Negrito’s journey into the blues is a fascinating story. His EP is an amazing blues funk consummation, although his first... Read more
Video of the week: Black Joe Lewis
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears – Mustang Ranch Joe mixes funk and blues for a very entertaining and high energy style. Think Howlin’ Wolf... Read more
NW blues profile: Curtis Salgado
Born in Everett in 1954 and based in Eugene, Curtis Salgado began his professional career with The Nighthawks in the late 60s, notable as the... Read more
Fantastic Negrito
I noticed a very busy news feed on Twitter, an artist named Fantastic Negrito. Modesty aside, he’s gone from being a big-time gangsta rap star,... Read more
This would be satisfying
Ran across this photo recently and thought to myself, wouldn’t it have been something to see those two to on the stage together? I heard... Read more
Mardi Gras
Today is Mardi Gras. Who better to mark the occasion than New Orleans blues/funk/boogie icon Dr. John. Right Place, Wrong Time was a hit in... Read more
Sounds like a winner
Rising in the budding funk blues subgenre, Jarekus Singleton‘s first album on Alligator Records, Refuse to Lose, sounds like a winner. Taking the lead from... Read more
Electric Slave review
After listening to Electric Shave a few times, I’m wondering if it isn’t a response to critics of Black Joe Lewis who have dissed him... Read more