What sets Duke Tumatoe apart from the mob of contemporary guitarists who practice the blues these days is his sense of humor. He usually finds something to chuckle about in the barroom tales he spins, where the pain and misery on display is more often than not self-inflicted and just as often hilariously ironic, at least in Duke's view. Oh, he falls into the trap of tired blues clichTs occasionally, which is pretty much endemic in the genre, but then he pops out with a song like {&"My Baby Is a...   [ read more ]

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Roots rocker Webb Wilder was due for a live album, which he finally recorded for the cameras in August 2005. The result was then packaged as a DVD/CD collection and released by Landslide in 2006 where it languished in near obscurity. Along comes the better distributed Blind Pig to the rescue and reissues the audio-only disc as a new release in January, 2008, two and half years after the original performance. By then Wilder should probably have had a new studio album in the can. Regardless, base...   [ read more ]

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