Guy Smith | June 5, 2009
A hurricane died this week. Koko Taylor was nothing less than a growling storm of blues. Hailed as the Queen of the Blues, Koko possessed seemingly endless energy erupting from her paunchy Chicago blues body and soul. When performing you lived in fear that either she or the audience would explode in frenzied elation, like [...]
Guy Smith | January 15, 2009
I want to brag about a local band, not because they are good great musicians, but because they write honest songs. The outfit is called Houston Jones, and their music is as they bill it “high-octane Americana.” Fitting description as they rather seamlessly weave together sounds from blues, folk, country, gospel and their own cosmic [...]
