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https://www.8ballaitken.com/

For more than a decade, blues-rocker 8 Ball Aitken has toured the world - performing his swampy, slide guitar-driven songs at more than 200 gigs each year. His live shows have rocked music festivals across the US, Australia, Europe, Canada, and Asia.

Since relocating to Nashville eight years ago from his native Australia, he has honed his songwriting, guitar playing and showmanship with some of the best in the business today.

With his 11th album, Swamp Blues 2, 8 Ball delves deeper into the Delta. It’s a groove-heavy, funkier follow-up to the success of last year’s Swamp Blues album release that hit #2 in the Australian Blues Charts and produced the 2019 APRA Song of the Year Shortlisted “High Water.”

https://8ballaitken.bandcamp.com/

The Aitken family, originally from Scotland, settled in the Atherton Tableland area of Queensland's Deep North and felt no reason to leave for several generations. 8 Ball Aitken inherited the family's distinctive shock of bright red hair, but not that desire to stay in the one place. At an early gig in a rowdy pub a fight broke out over a pool table and the 8 Ball was knocked onto the stage, leading the band to give him his nickname and the title of his first recording

https://www.facebook.com/8ballaitkenmusic

8 Ball Aitken demonstrates that the blues are alive and well Down Under with this deep-in-the-pocket collection of modern blues and blues rock that’s built atop a swamp blues structure. Chicago Blues Guide

"8 Ball is not an act any band wants to follow! ....even a 5 piece band will have to do some quick and serious note pounding to get 8-ball's vibe off the stage, it just hangs in the air long after he is gone.....he's a freakin solo red headed infector...!"Mitch Lind, owner/promoter of the Riverhawk and Stringbreak Music Festivals, Florida, USA

“This is outstanding. The way it should be done. You have a new fan.”Ray Wylie Hubbard (Snake Farm), Texas, USA

https://thedeadshowdealers.bandcamp.com/album/the-...

The Dead Show Dealers are an Aggressive/Americana band founded in Central Florida. A single styling or genre cannot define their sound. As you can hear in their music; they have a bit of punk, rockabilly, country, bluegrass, blues, and rock. When you mix all of those sounds together, you have The Dead Show Dealers. Lyrically and musically, the Dead Show Dealers are relatable to all.

https://www.facebook.com/thedeadshowdealers/?ref=p...

The Dead Show Dealers are an Aggressive/Americana rock band founded in Central Florida.

Robert Wilson - Vocals/Guitar/Harmonica

Josh Henry - Drums

Stone Jamess - Bass/Vocals

Bink Skiba - Guitar

http://20watttombstone.com/

20 WATT Tombstone are Wausau Wisconsin’s hard touring death blues saviors

They have played hundreds of shows over the past few years, and are now looking at embracing European shores this summer. Fusing the sounds of ZZ Top with Kyuss by way of Robert Johnson and Black Flag, the band has continually outdone themselves since their formation in 2011. Frontman Tom Jordan is even stepping in as an organizer of Wisconsin Doomed & Stoned Festival. Their DIY aesthetic has impressed fans across the world, all of whom are eager to see the band’s next steps.Remember – this is a group who records everything live in the studio. There’s no room to mess around in 20 Watt Tombstone. Instead they are doubling down on their live magic and are eager to delve ever deeper into this scene. With loud guitars and a passion for the music what could go wrong?

https://www.ericjohanson.com/

Below Sea Level was recorded at Zebra Ranch in late February 2020, with Terrence Grayson (Victor Wainwright) on bass, and Ray Jacildo (JD McPherson) providing an additional B3 organ on one track. The album features 12 original songs penned by Johanson, and was mixed by Dan Auerbach’s head engineer at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, M. Allen Parker.

“The songs deal a lot with rebuilding and reorienting the mind and one’s relationship to the world,” Eric explains. “With this album I was finally able to bring my blues and rock influences to a place of more imagination and creativity, while keeping it organic and honest. It’s contemporary music naturally grown from the roots of southern blues and psychedelic inspiration.”

https://hellsfiresinners.bandcamp.com/

The Hells Fire Sinners are a band from Columbus, Ohio. The members are Alan Downing on vocals & guitars, Matt Toledo on lead guitar, Alex Neff on drums and Andy Neff on bass. With influences across the board, each album the band records has it's own sound, different from the one before. With hints of punk, metal, country and goth the Sinners can scratch a lot of different musical itches.

https://www.steepwater.com/

THE STEEPWATER BAND IS ~

Jeff Massey ~ lead vocals / guitars

Joe Winters ~ drums / percussion

Eric Saylors ~ guitars / lap steel / backing vocals

Joe Bishop ~ bass / backing vocals

Something primal lurks in their music, but always wrestling with emotions and stories that are everyday-ready ~ music at once strut-inducing sexy and brass knuckles honest, a sound evolved smartly & patiently through countless gigs, running the bulls whenever and wherever they've been welcomed since 1998. Their songs bridge the miles between lovers, throw lines to brothers and sisters in need of some understanding and a spark that makes them shuffle, eyes closed, shaking off the day's heavy load, ready for another round because the right song by the right band made them feel they had enough fight left in them. - Dennis Cook

https://www.stephendalepetit.com/shop/

Some music has a life force and quicksilver energy that nothing else can provide. Such music has developed across the years and binds its devotees like disciples to a religion. It creates armies of passionate believers, devoted to the cause and like a religion, it Messiahs are rare, precious and beautiful. Somewhere in the dark past, this recovered addict, with the dead pan stare and the faraway eyes was chosen - the baton was passed… And the rest will be history. Who knows where it came from - maybe one of his heavy friends or famous admirers - Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Mick Taylor, Jeff Beck - they all know this kid's in town, but he needs no superstar endorsement. The music does the talking in the world of new blues… but he got that baton from somewhere…

https://jennyhatestechno.bandcamp.com/album/alien-...

Out of Maryland, Jenny Hates Techno is a rock band out of Maryland. The band has been referred to as Soul Punk, Urban Indie Rock and Ghetto Punk Rock.

https://pietbotha.com

Piet Botha 18 July 1955 to 2 June 2019

Piet Botha was the son of the former South African Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha (not to be confused with P.W. Botha). Pik Botha, who served during the last years of the apartheid era was considered to be a liberal, at least in comparison to others in the ruling National Party and among the Afrikaner community at the time.

Piet Botha was born in 1955 and shared his birth date of 18th July with Nelson Mandela. He began writing songs and forming bands while still at school and his first professional gig was as an acoustic duo in 1974 at a local drinking hole in Pretoria.

https://www.redsnow.ca/

Wayne Lavallee is 2010 Juno nominee & winner for “Best folk acoustic album” “Best rock album” & “Best male artist” at the 2010 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. While the new release was a great success, it took a long time for Wayne to find the right path to creating the long awaited follow up to his award winning album “Green Dress”.

https://rustyjamesband.bandcamp.com/

Rusty James Band is a Texas based blues/rock band from the Houston area. Rusty has played and recorded in many different bands over the past years and finally decided to start doing his own thing. With the help of some local musician friends and family Rusty has jumped into the local scene with his own bran

http://www.tylerdmorris.com//

Tyler Morris is a 21 year old musician from Boston, Massachusetts who has released and supported four internationally acclaimed albums to date. Morris has enjoyed live performance ever since he first came onstage as an 11-year-old at the invitation of Gary King, musical director at B.B. King’s Blues Club.

One of Morris’ exclusive videos, a tribute to Eddie Van Halen, received much notoriety, leading him to start a touring tribute to Van Halen’s 40^th anniversary, which is regularly selling out at many theatres. In addition to performance and composition, Morris is also an Electrical Engineer, and has designed audio effects for the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Conan O’Brien, Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), Elliot Easton (The Cars), Brian May (Queen), Warren Haynes and others.

https://digawolf.com/home

Diga grew up in the remote community of Behchoko, located in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Behchoko is the capital of the Tlicho Nation. His first and only language until the age of 9 was Tlicho. G Yet, Diga’s first artistic interests fell firmly in visual arts and cartooning. It wasn’t until Diga found a forgotten copy of Tom Waits’s Rain Dogs that he developed fascination with music, and it led him down the journey he has been on since. Diga has been locked away in his studio with his computer and guitar, devoid of a live audience. Stemming from this period of isolation is a unique album that stretches song into ballad and guitar riff into an instrumental exploration. As soon as he was able, he brought the band together, to start recording this Covidian epoch. Diga invites you on a journey through Canada’s North with his poetic prose and distinctive growling voice.

https://zackuzmanov.bandcamp.com/

Zac Kuzmanov from Plovdiv, Bulgaria has suffered from ALS for over 15 years.

Zac Kuzmanov (Здраво Гулов) is best known as the front man in Ultra Grand Supreme, the bass and sometimes guitar player in Jim Jones' Black Moses and for his latest project with singer/song writer Mel Garside, Moontwin. Zac is also the founder of XRaydio.net

released November 23, 2020

Jones Nelson / Vocals

Paul Joseph / Guitars

Joe Senger / Drums

Produced by Paul Joseph

https://tylerjakes.bandcamp.com/

"Tyler Jakes is an astonishingly accomplished musician who revels not so much in virtuoso self-indulgence as in writing tunes which resonate heart and soul with the listener."

--Sonic Abuse

"Jakes displays great range and talent as a song writer. His music comes across as an amalgam of blues, folk, and punk baring the undeniable imprint of his travels...words spill out like a ray of amped beatnik stream of consciousness. In fact, it seems like spontaneous artistic bloodletting. Somebody get this man some more canvas!"

--Rift Magazine

"Jakes is intent on laying down some truly dirty rock and roll. The end result evokes T. Rexs’ mellow glaze crossed with Dylan-esque harmonica and Sergio Leone soundtrack/gypsy punk miscegenation."

--Pulse of the Twin Cities

https://kurtmauser.bandcamp.com/album/long-since

Kurt Mauser Salo, Finland

http://www.allthemwitches.org/

All Them Witches Nashville, Tennessee

Ben McLeod - guitar, resonator, loops, piano

Robby Staebler - drums, synth, loops, tapes

Produced by ATW and Mikey Allred

Mixed / Mastered: Mikey Allred

Assistant Engineer: Neil Dawes

https://madresun.bandcamp.com/releases

Madre Sun is a London based Rock band formed by Cavina brothers Eduardo (lead vocal/bass) and Matt (backing vocal/guitar) with Tyson Schenker on the lead guitar.

https://philipsayce.com/

Reports of rock and roll’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, and Philip Sayce aims to keep it that way. On his new album Spirit Rising, Sayce boldly lets his freak flag fly, reaffirming his status as one of the best electric guitarists on the planet right now, but also demonstrating that he’s got a lot to say.

Those ideas have been building for a while now, as Spirit Rising marks Sayce’s first studio effort since 2015’s Influence, an album that found he and famed producer Dave Cobb brilliantly refurbishing a wide range of obscure rock nuggets. With Influence bringing Sayce to the attention of many new listeners, Spirit Rising shows the full breadth of his talents, and how much they have evolved.

https://philipsayce.com/index.html

https://thegingerfayebakers.bandcamp.com/

The Ginger Faye Bakers Rochester, New York

PLAY LOUD

released January 1, 2021

Nate Briscoe: vox/guitar

Tim Sadue: bass

Billy Martin: drums/synth