Blues Reviews

A battered Strat. A check shirt. Rory Gallagher wore them both well, as a new live album recorded in 1977 shows

Collector-friendly seven-inch single box set from reluctant rock god Robert Plant

Multi-disc career overview from great American noodlers The Allman Brothers Band

Crack open a cold one and celebrate the Cadillac Three's fourth

Recorded at London's Islington Academy in 2009, Gary Moore: Live from London finds the guitarist back in blue and at his peak

Side one is an acknowledged prog masterpiece... but how much does side two drag the overall score down?

Texas Flood was the debut album from Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Texas cat with the hat and the Strat who hot-wired the 80s blues revival

The return of Rich Robinson’s high flying birds The Magpie Salute, with second album High Water II

After half a century on the cutting room floor, Creedence Clearwater Revival's Woodstock set is officially out at last

Three-CD set combines post-’71 studio cuts, live recordings and recent tour guest slots from The Rolling Stones

Thirty-five years down the road and The Quireboys still sound fresh on 12th album Amazing Disgrace

Rolling Stone Keith Richards' 1988 solo debut gets major expansion job – in real Fender wood!

UK rockers of a certain age were introduced to Nantucket Sleighride by political broadcasting on the TV, but there was also an album attached to the song

After Rick Parfitt, what next for the Status Quo man?

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' career-spanning double CD compilation, also available on quadruple vinyl

Susan Tedeschi. Derek Trucks. And their Band. Album number four is Signs

A debut album from the youthful Free, a band with a couldn’t-care-less attitude honed on the rough-and-ready UK circuit of blues clubs and ballrooms

SAHB crept up on an unsuspecting nation, grabbed it by the balls and won hearts and minds in unison

Long Beach rockers’ Rival Sons' sixth album twists and turns and ultimately triumphs