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Delta Kream, their first album since 2019's  The 11-track album features songs from the Mississippi hill country blues artists who inspired the Black Keys when they were still cutting their teeth as an indie blues-rock duo in Akron, Ohio. Guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney will pay tribute to the likes of John Lee Hooker, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and more. The duo previewed  Delta Kream with album opener and lead single "Crawling Kingsnake," their take on Hooker's version of the blues standard, which he recorded for producer Bernard Besman in 1949. ...

Matt Sweeney Loves “Guitar Playing That You Don’t Understand” April 1, 2021 Matt Sweeney's career amalgamates an uncommon blend of indie- and roots-rock-cred, high-profile session gigs, membership in the Billy Corgan-led supergroup Zwan, and collaborations with Josh Homme and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Photo by Chris Shonting The Superwolf, Zwan, and Chavez guitarist's tone secrets: fingerpicking, flatwound strings, and overdriven amps. Matt Sweeney thinks you should fingerpick. "I don't want to sound like some sort of dick who hates guitar picks," he says, ...

Show More When I reviewed Roon at its launch, back in 2015, I called it “must-have software for hardcore music fans.” I stand by that characterization, although in retrospect, I shouldn’t have restricted its appeal to the hardcore. Anyone who derives deep enjoyment from music will reap tremendous benefits from this one-of-a-kind—albeit incredibly complex—software. That said, if you don’t consider music essential to life, you’ll probably have difficulty justifying the cost of a Roon license and the relatively steep hardware requirements you’ll need to run it. In addition to th...

  I can’t hit the page without hearing Hendrix, his psychedelically bluesed guitar journeys I bathed in for at least an hour every day for four or five years of my early twenties until I’d memorized every solo, him fingering feedback and folding wah wah into sonic ambulances of soul. I can’t hit the page without the echo of Muddy Waters’s Mississippi guitar that found its way to an electrified Chicago, without hearing the “I’m a Man” foundational blocks with his legendary harmonica men—Little Walter, Carey Bell, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Big Walter Horton, George Smith. I h...

Rolling Stone Historic Soul Label Malaco Records Preps New Book Written by Rob Bowman, By Malaco Records Written by Rob Bowman — known for 2003’s Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records — the book will chronicle the history of the label, which was started by Tommy Couch Sr. and Mitchell Malouf in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962. The book dives into the careers of label artists that include Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bobby Blue Bland, Z.Z. Hill, Little Milton, Johnnie Taylor, James Cleveland, Little Milton, and others. The 200-page volume contains rare photographs ...