Review: Chris Duarte – Ain’t Giving Up Provogue Records (April 14th, 2023 Reviewer: Stephen Brophy Sometimes you need to live with an album a long time before some of the intricacies and nuances start to sink in properly and for me ‘Ain’t Giving Up‘ was one of those alums. Please don’t get me wrong here, […]
Blues-roots guitarist Chris Duarte has just released ‘Ain’t Giving Up’, his 15th studio album, out via Provogue Records. Featuring a wide range of outlaw blues, Americana, roots, and even alt-country influences, ‘Ain’t Giving Up’ finds the Austin, Texas guitarist teaming up for the first time in 22 years with producer-guitarist Dennis Herring, also known for his work with artists like Buddy Guy, Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello, and the Hives. But the resulting album isn’t a calculated return to […]
Texan blues-roots guitarist Chris Duarte has released ‘Half As Good As Two‘, an instant blues-rock classic featured on his 15th studio album ‘Ain’t Giving Up‘, out April 14th via Provogue Records. “While Beth and I were throwing around ideas for songs, she sent me a sound recording from her phone that had the basics of ‘Half as Good’, and I was admiring the simplicity of the song,” Duarte recalls, referring to the Austin based songwriter Beth Lee. […]
Blues-roots guitarist Chris Duarte has announced his new studio album ‘Ain’t Giving Up‘, which will be released on April 14th via Provogue Records. Check out the music video for the opening song ‘Nobody But You‘. His 15th studio album features a wide range of outlaw blues, Americana, roots, and even alt-country influences, ‘Ain’t Giving Up’ finds the Austin, Texas guitarist teaming up for the first time in 22 years with producer-guitarist Dennis Herring, also known for […]
On December 2nd, the five-time-Grammy-nominated guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd will release ‘The Trouble Is…25’, a top-to-bottom reinterpretation of his seminal album ‘Trouble Is…’, which struck the match that reignited modern blues upon its release 25 years ago. And while the tracklist is almost the same, there is one outlier that fans will notice – a […]
Supersonic Blues Machine is joined by Ana Popović for ‘Do It Again‘, the latest single off their new album ‘Voodoo Nation‘, out now via Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group. A firecracker of a track about “the happiness and blessing of being able to do what you love,” today’s release was accompanied by a music video for the song, featuring Popović and the band […]
To celebrate the announcement of the release of ‘Trouble Is…25’, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band have revealed a run of six special UK shows for April 2023 as part of their ‘The Trouble Is… 25th Anniversary World Tour’, where they will be playing songs from their iconic album, ‘Trouble Is…’ They will play Parr Hall in Warrington, Queens Hall in Edinburgh, Tyne Theatre in Newcastle, the De La War Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea and Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. Tickets are available from here. ‘Trouble Is…25’, a top-to-bottom reinterpretation of his seminal album ‘Trouble […]
Today, the five-time-Grammy-nominated guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd announces ‘Trouble Is…25’, a top-to-bottom reinterpretation of his seminal album ‘Trouble Is…’, which struck the match that reignited modern blues upon its release 25 years ago. Slated for release on December 2nd via Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group, the album (which includes a bonus track of an unreleased version […]
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