Walter Trout & The Radicals
"Walter Trout isn't just a great guitar player...he works from the heart with a flawless and fiery edge. When Walter Trout plays, he owns you."
 ~David Wilson/The ToneQuest Report

Stylistically hard to pigeonhole - - Is Trout's music too blues for rock - or too rock for blues? -- to label Walter Trout’s music is to limit it. Trout's backing band on "The Outsider" includes drummer Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp), bassist Hutch Hutchinson and pianist Jon Clearly (Bonnie Raitt), as well as Skip Edwards and Samuel Avila on the Hammond B3 and a special guest appearance by harmonica wiz Jason Ricci.
Walter Trout  website

Curtis Salgado
Curtis Salgado has a lot to celebrate. Two years ago he was diagnosed with liver cancer and told he had eight months to live, unless he got a liver transplant which would generate medical bills upwards of half a million dollars. With no health insurance and few funds, the man who is one of America's finest blues/soul singers needed a little help from his friends. When your friends and admirers include the likes of Steve Miller, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal, you've got a fighting chance. Through the generosity of Curtis's friends, fellow musicians, the Legendary Blues Cruise and thousands of fans who supported Curtis by attending benefits and auctions or by making private donations, upwards of half a million dollars were raised and Curtis got his transplant. A little less than two years after his initial diagnosis, Curtis was able to record Clean Getaway, an album whose title has an obvious double meaning.
Curtis Salgado website

Charlie Musselwhite
Shot through with attitude, the songs on DELTA HARDWARE feel rough-hewn and tough, just as they should for a guy "born in Mississippi [and] raised up in Tennessee." Charlie cuts loose a good time in Clarksdale, pipes up for the downtrodden, and gives a lover the ol' heave-ho. This is raw, passionate music from a howlin' blues legend who's still invigorated by a youthful spirit.

It's Charlie's mix of wild country abandon seasoned by years of playing urban electric blues in Chicago that spurs the likes of Ben Harper, Tom Waits and Gov't Mule to welcome Musselwhite onto their stages and records. That same brash, blues/rock rebel vibe was Dan Aykroyd's inspiration for his Elwood Blues persona, and it's what has won Musselwhite a pile of blues awards and earned the admiration and respect of his own heroes: Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. John Lee was even the best man at Charlie's wedding.
Charlie Musselwhite website

Trudy Lynn
Born and raised in Houston's music-rich Fifth Ward, Trudy Lynn began singing in an era when the neighborhood's blues and early R & B culture was first turning on to a new sound known simply as soul.

Beyond any quibbling about musical categorization, Trudy's work also speaks to the universal human condition, experiences all people can appreciate. "I Write, and I enjoy, songs about real life." Combined with her capacity for delivering convincing vocal interpretations, a Trudy Lynn track simply tells it like it is - the straight and timeless truth.
Trudy Lynn website

Guitar Shorty
Between his blistering, rocked-out guitar work and his fierce, soulful vocals, the power of Guitar Shorty's music is unmatched, and his perceptive and meaningful lyrics are unique among modern bluesmen. Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Shorty has been electrifying audiences for five decades with his supercharged live shows and his incendiary recordings. Through the years, Shorty has performed with blues and R&B luminaries like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, B.B. King, Guitar Slim and T-Bone Walker. Although he had recorded a handful of singles for a variety of labels, it wasn’t until the 1990s that the wider world opened its collective ears to one of the blues’ most exciting performers. His albums since then have all received massive critical acclaim, and his legendary live performances have kept him constantly in demand all over the world.  GuitarOne magazine said, “Guitar Shorty is a superb bluesman who can scorch your ears off with lethal licks and heavyweight blues-rock grooves.
Guitar Shorty website  

The Roger Girke Band
I have said it before, and I'll say it again because it's worth repeating: the guys from the Del-Mar-Va-Pa region are monsters of their craft. Roy Buchanon, Delbert McClinton, Danny Gatton, Billy Price, and the Nighthawks have called this place their home. The Roger Girke Band is a great example of the kind of musicians that come from this area. Roger Girke fronts his band with solid vocals, and tasty guitar. These guys ROCK! Don't miss your chance to see The Roger Girke Band. These guys pump out a hearty dose of house-rockin blues.
~Pittsburgh Blues Society
Roger Girke website

Delbert McClinton & Friends
When Delbert McClinton announces with his latest album that he has "Room To Breathe," he sure ain't kidding. After more than four decades of making music, McClinton is breathing freely with the confidence and energy of an artist who knows that he has mastered his game. Still basking in the glow of a new Grammy® Award, he has followed up what The Wall Street Journal declared his “best recording ever” -- 2001's Nothing Personal -- with a set that displays even greater muscle, smarts, charm and soul.

Then last year, when Delbert “came roaring out of the gate on "Nothing Personal,” as Rolling Stone put it, his stature as one of the living icons of genuine American music returned to the forefront. The album debuted on five Billboard charts: Hot 200 Albums, Blues, Country, Independent and Internet Sales. What's the secret behind his newfound success? “Life is better than it's ever been for me,” McClinton explains. "So far I have not lost the inspiration; it's getting even better for me. I am the luckiest man you know.”
Delbert McClinton Website

Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones                      Phillip Walker                    Sherman Robertson

While recording with Sonny Rhodes, Jones met harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite, who persuaded him to join his band. Jones played guitar on Musselwhite's three late-1980s/early-1990s albums for Alligator Records. Phillip Walker has played every major festival in the world, headlining most. Many of his fans travel hundreds of miles to hear Phillip play and sing. His performances are electrifying, and by the end of the night you will find yourself dancing if you never have before. Sherman Robertson is already considered a young master of zydeco, hard-swinging Texas electric blues, R&B and swampy Louisiana blues. Robertson often surprises audiences with his ability to play R&B, zydeco and blues with a rock edge.
Andrew "Junior Boy" Jones website
Phillip Walker website
Sherman Robertson website

Tad Robinson
Two time w.C. Handy award nominee tad robinson returns with a new band, nine new originals, two classic soul gems and A NEW POINT OF VIEW. This collection of modern soul/blues has reverberations of past singers and yet is a forward leap for the music. Truly a hand-made project, A New Point of View was made the “old-school” way with tender loving care. Originals like “Long Way Home” give a nod to Issac Hayes, while Johnnie Taylor's “Ain't That Lovin' You (For More Reasons than One)” draws more inspiration from Dennis Brown's version than the original. Each song creates a balance between classic and modern style.

The band's performance is a marvel of democracy; equal parts blues and soul coming together to create the canvas that Robinson is free to fill with color and personality.
Tad Robinson website
 

South Saturn Delta
South Saturn Delta is an inspired group of artists who habitually "drink from the well" that is the reservoir of American roots music…
Allowing it to infuse and inspire artistically when writing original compositions and re-interpreting song. Their music has been called "Swamp-a-delic! Funky, edgy, rhythm and blues with a twist of jazz." The sound of this group electrifies and generates an emotional intensity that is sometimes cathartic, sometimes triumphant, and always rewarding.
South Saturn Delta website

Blue Cat Blues Band
Wilmington native sons and the city's own
"Juke Joint Blues Party" takes the stage at 2:45
to get the crowd jumpin' & hollerin'!
This is good-time, party music that gets your foot to tapping
and booty to wiggling.  Expect some great harmonica blues
from this four man music explosion.  Don't miss them!
Blue Cat Blues website

Gary Allegretto & the Delaware All-Stars
They're back...the best from the local blues scene assembled to back-up harmonica virtuoso and Delaware native-son Garry Allegretto. A down-to-earth guy with lifelong wanderlust and more than a few stories to tell, Gary Allegretto’s resume reads like a men's adventure wish-list, and through it all, he can barely remember a time when Blues weren't a powerful part of his life, and playing harmonica wasn't as natural as his own voice.  Expect some honky-tonk, good time blues with a story.
Gary Allegretto website

Pork Roll Project
They've graced DSBS stages on multiple occasions
and never fail to excite. The Porkroll Project, from the greater Philadelphia, PA area, is a hard rocking 6 piece blues band who play a high energy blend of fresh covers
and originals.

The music is blues, but it's done up Porkroll style. Little bit of grease, good dose of funk, whole lotta drive and grind. Throw that together with some dangerous lead guitar and harmonica, powerful organ, and rippin' piano, and you have a recipe for a jam where anything can happen!
Pork Roll Project website

lower case blues
lower case blues is a power trio hailing from Newark, Delaware
who are one of the hardest working bands in the land.  They can be seen up and down the east coast delivering up their unique brand of hard-driving blues centered around the skillful tones emanating from guitar virtuoso Jake Banaszak's axe.  If you've never seen them, you're in for a treat.  Count on lower case to "tear the house down!"
lower case blues website

61 North
To say this young Woodstown, NJ-based band has taken the tri-state region by storm would be an understatement. 61 North is an inspirational, high-energy band blending new and old with a sound that fuses blues, rock, jazz, funk, and progressive music.  They are a band to experience, with tasteful improvisation, exceptional musicianship and a powerful stage presence that makes 61 North an incredible live phenom and a must see.
61 North website
 

Garry Cogdell & Friends
Garry's Singing and guitar playing draw deeply from the music of the Mississippi Delta, Chicago, Texas and sometimes-even London England in the 60's. His masterful slide guitar, fluid flat and finger picking in the "hammer-stroke" style in several guitar tunings confirm his depth of knowledge, and understanding of the subtleties and strengths of the best of the Blues guitarists.  Joined here with Hank Carter of George Thurgood Band repute on sax and talented Jimmy Crawford on percussion, you'll be treated to an eclectic mix of foot-tappin' blues.  Don't miss it!
Garry Cogdell website