B&R Issue 393 – Out Now!

JESSE STONE aka CHARLES CALHOUN: R&B history in Opal Louis Nation’s Back Room Wizards Series

SUNNYLAND SLIM – Hungover Blues by Hans Schweitz

Chris Smith’s Words, Words, Words features PRINCE PATRIDGE – Part One

Blues Throwbacks by Ray Templeton feature Texas bluesmen LEE HUNTER & LEROY ERVIN

Part Two of THE BIG BOB DOUGHERTY STORY – Complete Discography

More on Chess Records by Dan Nooger – this issue: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PARROT RECORDS?

Looking Over Jordan – Chris Smith’s unique research on LUKE JORDAN

Mike Stephenson Blues Young Blood Series focuses on AMANI BURNHAM

Plus: Obituaries on Michael Ochs, Flaco Jimenez, Tommy McLain, Joe Rivers; Letters; Champion Jack Dupree from UK 1959; Eastside Kings Festival by Mike Stephenson ; Reviews include Johnny Otis; Bobby Bland; Buddy Guy; Dixie Hummingbirds; Magic Sam; Rudy Greene; The Coasters; Roomful Of Blues; Robert Lockwood; Films: Big Mama Thornton; King Records.

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B&R Issue 392 – Out Now!

R&B History: THE BIG BOB DOUGHERTY STORY by Armin Buttner

MODERN RECORDS BOX SET PREVIEW by John Broven

GRANNY LITTRECEBEY – CHICAGO STREET SINGER – by Cary Baker

MO’ R&B HISTORY: Doin’ The Mambo – feature on the Whitchta, Kansas R&B Nightclub by Bob McGrath & Jim O’Neal

LEROY DALLAS – Postwar Blues Throwbacks by Ray Templeton

PETE WELDING – 1994 INTERVIEW by Leonard Watkins

JIMMY REED & LUTHER ALLISON IN HOUSTON 1975 by Ralph Fales

Plus: Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez, Billy Dunn, Ann Sexton, Patti Drew, Jo Jo Wallace, Cadillac John Nolden, Robert Nighthawk, Blind Wille Johnson, Kirk Fletcher, Ping Rose, Mississippi Hill Country Blues, Clara Ward, Soul 66, Stax ’65 and many more.