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Bluesology: Ally Venable, Duke Robillard, Alabama Slim and The Hitman Blues Band Get the latest tip-top blues with releases from Ally Venable, Duke Robillard, Alabama Slim and The Hitman Blues Band. Author: By Mike Greenblatt She’s so cute. How could she play such ball-busting guitar? Obviously, her two attributes are not diametrically opposed. Ally Venable sings up a storm, writes her own material, and is said to be an onstage blockbuster. At 21, this Texas Tornado is on her fourth album. (Ruf Records) picks up where 2019’s Texas Honey left off. Produced by Jim Gaines (Stevie Ray Vaug...

When I saw this CD’s primitive package and reading Alabama Slim’s bio, I thought someone was perpetrating hoax, creating the Sidd Finch [fictional baseball player] of the blues community. Come on, it’s 2021, and you’re telling us from out of the blue comes a relic blues guitar player from Klan country playing a style of music that originated on 78 r.p.m.s? Well, Alabama Slim is authentic and living here in New Orleans, and he’s not half bad. In fact, along with his buddy/cousin Little Freddie King (heard here on “Freddie’s Voodoo Boogie”), Slim is one of the last practitioners...

Alabama Slim – The Parlor (Cornelius Chapel): “The story of a bluesman getting discovered late in life is one that has repeated itself a handful of times over the last few decades. There is a sadness to this story in the fact that talented musicians can toil away most of their life without having their music ever heard and appreciated by anyone outside of their immediate community. But there is also a triumph, a redemption of sorts that comes from this music finally reaching grateful listeners around the world. While visiting bluesman Little Freddie King in New Orleans, Music Maker Reli...

Along with his upcoming 82nd birthday, New Orleans blues artist Milton Frazier has something else to celebrate. Frazier—the singer, guitarist and songwriter known as Alabama Slim—is releasing his third album, The Parlor, today. Accompanied by his cousin, Little Freddie King “Fread Eugene Martin,” and producer-drummer Ardie Dean, he recorded the project in four hours. “We went in and laid it down,” Frazier said of his unfussy session at the Parlor Recording Studio. “As a matter of fact, me and Freddie, we’re just ready, man, because that’s my thing.” You can stream the pre...