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  Welcome Austin Young — Free Download and Listening Party!

  VizzTone proudly presents the debut recording from Colorado’s teenage blues phenom, AUSTIN YOUNG.  At 17, he delivers deep passion, exciting showmanship, and electrifying musicianship.  His inspirations range from Blues giants to guitar masters.  As he devastates audiences near home and at concerts and festivals, he is a hard act to follow even for today’s established stars. [...]

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  Long Tall Deb – Raise Your Hands Listening Party!

  Just click on the CD cover to hear the whole album in the VizzTone Store. VizzTone is so proud of the new Long Tall Deb CD, Raise Your Hands, we’re having a week-long Listening Party! “Long Tall Deb is a powerful singer who was raised in the dirt of Texas Blues.”    – Art Tipaldi, Blues [...]

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  Bob Margolin receives Keeping the Blues Alive Award

  Congratulations to this year’s KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE Award recipient in the field of journalism… BOB MARGOLIN! Bob’s eBook is available in the iTunes Store, also on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble & Sony   Unfortunately Bob couldn’t join us in Memphis to blow the roof off the Rum Boogie or accept his KBA award [...]

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  Goodbye to Ann Rabson

  Our dear friend, Blues Legend Ann Rabson passed on January 30. Beloved by many around the world, Ann was known for her 25 years with Saffire—The Uppity Blues Women, as well as her solo projects.  She was also known for her exceptionally good humor, big heart and generosity of spirit.  She will be deeply missed. [...]

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  James Montgomery Band – feat. Johnny Winter, James Cotton, and More!

  The VizzTone label group is proud to welcome the James Montgomery Band, and their new CD featuring special guests Johnny Winter, James Cotton, Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer, the Uptown Horns, and seminal rapper DMC! Click Here To Listen! When blues legend James Montgomery sings and plays the harmonica, he summons the power and inspiration of [...]

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  Good Luck to our Blues Music Award nominees!

  Good Luck to our BLUES MUSIC AWARD nominees!!! Ann Rabson w/Bob Margolin / Not Alone – Acoustic Blues Album Bob Margolin- Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year Phantom Blues Band – Blues Band of the Year Tony Braunagel (Phantom Blues Band, Robert Cray Band) – Drums Mike Finnigan (Phantom Blues Band) – Pinetop Perkins Piano Player [...]

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  Mitch Woods on Voice of America!

  Mitch Woods has been getting a tremendous response to Blues Beyond Borders, his CD/DVD chronicle of his triumphant tour of the Republic of Turkey.  Voice Of America Radio recently broadcast a great interview, in which Mitch talks about his travels as well as his influences and beginnings in the gumbo of New Orleans music and [...]

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  VizzTone Blues Party On Beale!

  One of the highlights of IBC Week is our annual VizzTone extravaganza at the Rum Boogie Cafe on Beale street. We’ll be tearing it up with performances by VizzTone family and friends on Friday and Saturday nights, February 1 and 2, from 10 PM until LATE!  This year DAVE GROSS and GINA SICILIA will host the [...]

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  A Harp Player’s Take on Dennis Gruenling’s Technique

  —by Richard Rosenblatt (Non harp-playing readers beware:  Turn back now, read no further, lest you catch a glimpse into the dark recesses of a harmonica player’s brain.  It’s not pretty, and you may turn to salt.) ROCKIN’ ALL DAY by DENNIS GRUENLING is, among other things, a very advanced Blues Harmonica Master Class.  Dennis is above all things [...]

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  Available now… new Fiona Boyes CD!

  Now Available!   Blues For Hard Times is the latest Blue Empress/VizzTone release from internationally acclaimed blues artist FIONA BOYES.  This new recording is a stripped-back, traditional album featuring a mixture of acoustic and electric small ensemble performances and 6 solo tracks.  Produced by Kaz Kazanoff, featuring guests Bob Margolin, Derek O’Brien, Jimi Bott and [...]

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  Mac Arnold’s Blues Revival!

  VizzTone is proud to announce the release of MAC ARNOLD’S BLUES REVIVAL – a great live recording of Mac and his band with special guests Kim Wilson, Bob Margolin and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. MAC ARNOLD has had an amazing career.  Starting out in South Carolina in a band that sometimes included James Brown, he [...]

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  Addicted to Gina Sicilia!

  More and more people are getting “addicted” to Gina Sicilia — she’s keeping up a whirlwind pace, but still finding time to sign a young fan’s shirt! Among other things… •  She’s going to be releasing a Chirstmas single this holiday season.  A large percentage of sales are going to benefit the St. Judes Children’s [...]

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  EG Kight is on a roll

  EG KIGHT is on a roll!!!  Bouncing back from recent health problems, EG is thrilled with the tremendous response her new CD LIP SERVICE has been getting with press and on the radio around the world.  She says with a Georgia Songbird smile, “I’m so thrilled that after everything I’ve been through this year, my [...]

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  Blues Blast reviews Greg Nagy

  BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE, 9/15/11 Featured Blues Review 5 of 6 Greg Nagy – Fell Toward None Big O Records/Vizztone www.gregnagy.com 11 tracks/44:14 In sports, there is a commonly used term known as the “sophomore slump”. It refers to an athlete who has an impressive rookie season but fails to come close to matching that level [...]

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  Blues Revue catches Chris O’Leary on the road

  Blues Revue writer Kay Cordtz caught the Chris O’Leary band at the Towne Crier in New York – sounds like a hell of a night! Share

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  VizzTone is rockin’ with AirPlay Direct!

  As of April 18, 2011, new releases from VizzTone Artists occupy THREE out of the top FIVE slots on Airplay Direct’s monthly Blues Album chart!  #1: TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT / #4: PETE ANDERSON / #5: GINA SICILIA.  AirPlay Direct’s Global Radio Indicator Charts show the most popular tracks that are being downloaded for airplay by [...]

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  Johnny Ace’s Psychedelic Interview!

  IT’S PSYCHEDELIC BABY just posted a great career retrospective interview with Johnny Ace – from his early days in 1960′s New York to his current home in the San Francisco scene, playing with diverse acts and artists including:  The Thompson Ferry Blues Band, the Blues Busters, Victoria Spivey, John Lee Hooker (pictured here), Perry and [...]

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  TUF cover story in the new Blues Revue!

  Trampled Under Foot is featured as the cover story in the March/April issue of Blues Revue Magazine! Writer Stacy Jeffress chronicles the band’s journey from their childhood experiences with their parents’ music, through their individual endeavors in different bands, right up to their formation of TUF in 2004, their victorious trip to Memphis in 2008, [...]

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