Bruce Madden Grand Rapids, Michigan
My love of harmonica began as a child in the South. My love of guitar came about a little later--I use it to compose songs--
for example all the songs on the 2022 release, Trouble Times.
I was born in Arkansas and lived in Texas, Louisiana and Virginia. Eventually, I lived in France for three years before settling in Boston for a time.
I live in Michigan now.
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Bruce Madden recommends:
Bring Me My Shotgun – The Essential Collection
by Lightnin Hopkins
This is the real thing. Lightnin' Hopkins bowls you over with the immediacy of his vocals and instrumental down home, steamrollin' blues.
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Buffalo Nichols
by Buffalo Nichols
With virtuosic guitar-playing and evocative singing, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols returns Black stories to folk and blues.
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Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz
by Russell Morris & Rick Springfield
Russell Morris and Rick Springfield pair grave tales with smoldering blues on this Día de los Muertos-inspired collaborative LP.
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The King's Blues Box
by B.B. King
Cleopatra Blues recently unleashed a barrage of reissued essentials from Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells, etc.
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Cerebral palsy curbed his ability to play guitar the conventional way, so Nagoda learned double slide, this is his debut LP.
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Live at The Triple Door
by James Apollo
Imposing, echo-drenched, and soulful, James Apollo’s “accidental live record” captures the singer at the peak of his powers.
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