Interesting speed-date type interview with #CatClyde. She doesn't have the chance to say much, but what she does say tracks with what I've been reading, that this album was supposed to be a transitional album to pair what was going on in her life. Seems like I was too harsh on her sound when those few singles were coming out before the album release. I have come to like the album now, but it is nothing compared to her previous material. However, on a positive note, she does say that instead of focusing on the next album, she is focusing on touring and allowing the songs from Mud, Blood, Bone to develop further, which Cat Clyde live with the this album, pushing them, it would be so great to hear.

https://whenthehornblows.com/content/2026/3/17/artist-of-the-week-321-cat-clyde

#IndieMusic #FolkBlues #IndieFolk #FolkRock

Artist Of The Week #321 - Cat Clyde — When The Horn Blows

This week's Artist of the Week is Canadian indie-folk artist Cat Clyde - who has just released her new album 'Mud Blood Bone' via Concord Records.

When The Horn Blows

#CatClyde is making some waves.

Singer-songwriter Cat Clyde: ‘I moved around a lot – my parents were pretty chaotic people’
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/features/cat-clyde-interview-mud-blood-bone-b2937381.html

#IndieMusic #FolkBlues #IndieFolk

Singer-songwriter Cat Clyde: ‘I moved around a lot – my parents were pretty chaotic people’

As the Canadian folk musician releases her brilliant fourth album, ‘Mud Blood Bone’, she speaks to Roisin O’Connor about the devastating breakup that inspired it, wanting to ‘punch a guy in the head’ for her latest music video, and why she’s not about to quit her roving ways

The Independent
Cat Clyde is Going to Change the World – Richard J Tilley

Roon tells me I've listened to #CatClyde's new album about 3 hours today. I am serious when I say that I think she could revolutionize music as an art that is life changing. She has the spirit in her. I still prefer her previous albums and EPs and live recordings. I really want an album of her playing this album live, unfiltered, just Cat being Cat. It is a big difference. That cannot be understated. I've just got a feeling. Cat Clyde is going to change the world.

#NowPlaying #IndieMusic #Folk #FolkBlues #IndieFolk #art #music #roon #revolution

The new #CatClyde album dropped today. It is not her best, but I am a committed fan. I found out one reason why the album is so over-produced and watered down. Apparently it is supposed to be a country album. That explains a lot. But she is a folk blues musician/songwriter. It's enough that they are so rare, and so rarely gifted, the only way to earn a living is to because a country musician? fucking sucks. One thing that could resolve this is another live album. Cat can't pretend not to be overwhelmingly beautiful live with a back beat on top of it, no matter what genre Concord is forcing her into.

#BlueFolk #FolkBlues #IndieMusic

Nothing Seems to Matter

One of three songs written by Bonnie Raitt for her 2nd album Give It Up released in 1972. Here, she performs the song in 1977

#bonnieraitt #70smusic #theseventies #music #the70s #femalevocalist #musiclegend #folkblues #theblues #nowplaying #nowhearthis #randomplay #mixtape #listenup #simsongs

“Fairytale Blues” : Jesse Creatchman signe une fable folk-blues entre enchantement et revanche

Installé à Montréal, Jesse Creatchman dévoile “Fairytale Blues”, une ballade folk-blues qui puise autant dans le folklore que dans le blues traditionnel. L’artiste y propose une fusion riche entre atmosphère downhome et narration imagée, construisant un récit d’enchantement, de libération et de revanche. Fidèle à son goût pour le storytelling brut, il transforme des instants vécus en matière musicale durable. Son univers navigue entre folk, rock et Americana, avec une approche centrée sur l’expérience humaine.

Dans ce nouveau titre, Jesse Creatchman joue avec les codes du conte classique tout en les détournant. Guenièvre n’est pas exactement celle que l’on croit, le dragon est terrassé, mais le prince ne s’éloigne pas vers un horizon idyllique. Porté par des images saisissantes, une harmonica vibrante et un groove poussiéreux, “Fairytale Blues” se déploie comme une fable sombre enveloppée de twang moderne et de soul. L’artiste évoque l’idée initiale comme une évidence persistante : “Once Upon A Time” résonnait dans son esprit jusqu’à devenir le point de départ du morceau.

L’écriture du titre s’est imposée progressivement, presque naturellement. Désireux de composer un blues sans détour, il a choisi d’assumer pleinement la structure du conte plutôt que de simplement y faire allusion. Selon lui, la chanson « s’est écrite toute seule », guidée par une logique organique. Cette spontanéité se retrouve dans la construction musicale, nourrie par des collaborations déterminantes.

Shemerr a veillé à préserver l’authenticité du morceau, tandis que Dixon a apporté sa contribution à la guitare. L’enregistrement s’est déroulé dans une atmosphère fluide : à son retour d’une pause, la base était déjà posée. Zeller a ensuite enrichi le titre à l’harmonica, lui conférant une texture à la fois marécageuse et ornée. Le résultat : un blues aux accents intemporels, sans verser dans le pastiche, ancré dans une esthétique moderne.

Avec “Fairytale Blues”, Jesse Creatchman confirme son aptitude à conjuguer tradition et réinvention. En s’appropriant les codes du conte et du blues, il livre une ballade immersive et narrative. Une proposition singulière où folklore et groove contemporain cohabitent avec cohérence.

https://youtu.be/12Mcp77WodE

#Americana #balladeFolk #bluesModerne #FairytaleBlues #folkBlues #harmonicaBlues #JesseCreatchman #musiqueCanadienne #nouveauSingle #singerSongwriterMontréal

King of the Delta Blues Singers is a compilation album by American Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, released in 1961 by Columbia Records. It is considered one of the most influential blues releases. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked it number 374 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

The album collects sixteen mono recordings, nine of which were previously available as 78 rpm records on the Vocalion label, which Johnson recorded during two sessions in 1936 and 1937. The records sold well in their target market of the American south and southwest, with "Terraplane Blues" a regional hit, but their sales figures never totaled more than 5000 or so. Legendary record producer John Hammond gave an advance copy of the album to his newest signing to Columbia, Bob Dylan, who had never heard of Johnson and who became mesmerized by the intensity of the recordings - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_7nYEpkBo&list=PLYPx-lRv1uyB8Rrw1GNrluTznSqO5-FBN&index=1

#RobertJohnson #DeltaBlues #Blues #BobDylan #JohnHammond #Music #FolkBlues

Blues & Folk is an album by blues musicians Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. This record was recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label.

Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

Saunders Terrell (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986),[1] known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbpSZ-TYivo&list=OLAK5uy_kzjtp09qErv5mb-fxmjo9HVDOr3eMthu0

#BrownieMacGhee #SonnyTerry #PiedmontBlues #FolkBlues #Bluesville #Blues #Music

Sings The Blues With 6 & 12 String Guitar by Barbara Dane, released on Folkways in 1964.

Barbara Jean Spillman (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024), known professionally as Barbara Dane, was an American folk, blues, and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber.

"Bessie Smith in stereo," wrote jazz critic Leonard Feather of Dane in the late 1950s. Time wrote of Dane: "The voice is pure, rich ... rare as a 20-carat diamond" and quoted Louis Armstrong's exclamation upon hearing her at the Pasadena jazz festival: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser!" On the occasion of her 85th birthday, The Boston Globe music critic James Reed called her "one of the true unsung heroes of American music." - Wikipedia

https://barbara-dane.bandcamp.com/album/sings-the-blues-with-6-12-string-guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmjnYDoA_pg&list=PLAPpP5SQgYZp7qCH_TiymoiAkvbWSncLI&index=1

#BarbaraDane #Blues #Folkways #FolkBlues #Music