Billie & The Kids (CROATIA)
Take One

CD PRICE: £11.99

Billie & the Kids got together in the Summer of 2009, all sharing the passion and true love to the old-style and sounding blues and rhythm & blues music. Our great and lovely Billie is one of a kind, and we are proud to present her in the spotlight of a vintage fairytale on the first album released by the Rhythm Bomb Records.

BILLIE (Ivana Starcevic) - vocal, The Kids are: BARRY (Berislav Antica) - piano, ROBBIE (Robert Vnuk) - guitar, MARIO (Mario Bocic) - lead tenor sax, WYNONIE (Vanja Ilekovic) - tenor sax, HENY (Andrej Henigman) - baritone sax, B. J. (Branimir Njikos) - drums, SLAPPINJOY (Jurica Stelma) - double bass

Bottleneck John (SWEDEN)
Northern Heart, Southern Soul

CD PRICE: £9.99

Northern heart, Southern soul is a perfect way to describe the man behind the music on this brand new acoustic blues album! This is BJ's new, looong over due solo project, to finally deal with all the songs he's written over the past few years, arranging, recording and releasing these songs on this CD! But now it’s happened, a CD with 16 self-penned songs ready and waiting to find their way to friends and fans!
Johan Eliasson a.k.a. Bottleneck John hails from Jämtland, Sweden. Mostly old-timey 1920's and 30's unpolished, raw delta, hokum & country blues stuff that have been heard and felt by audiences on numerous tours, concerts and shows around Scandinavia and Europe..
Anywhere where there's a need for real old blues.. Bottleneck John will be there!!

The Aces (USA)
No One Rides For Free

CD PRICE: £9.99

Formed in 2000, The Aces have attitude and a different idea of how to play Blues. They reduce the Blues to pounding riffs and a distorted wall of sound topped by wailing harp. They were among the first to absorb and recast the drone riff-based Hill Country Blues style, and The Aces do that their own way.

They write their own songs (they do very few covers). They have their own slicked back greased hair in a wind tunnel look attached to a permanent sneer and a pushy stage presence. Those that might think of punk trance blues as something endlessly repeating a melodic line are in for a rhythmic pounding when the Aces get on stage.

John Alexander (UK)
Rain For Sale

CD PRICE: £9.99

John Alexander is an acoustic guitarist, singer songwriter based in Glasgow, Scotland. His performances combine strong songwriting, complimented with riff driven guitar work and rich vocals creating a fine blend of folk blues and country music.

Influenced by the likes of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, John Martyn and  Kelly Joe Phelps, prepare to be transported from the timeless beauty of his native landscapes to the heart felt blues of the Deep South..'‘Dustbowl blues with a Glasgow kick’

Nico Backton & The Wizards Of Blues (FRANCE)
Roots & Stories

CD PRICE: £10.99

"This record is an appointment with history you are not allowed to miss" Blues Again Magazine

Nico Backton is very pleased to present the 'Wizards of Blues' for a musical journey from Memphis to Chricago, crossing the shores of the Yazoo River... With Chris Michel on bass, François Miniconi on drums and Richie Faret on harp, "Nico Backton & Wizards of Blues" cross the United States from down South up to the cold North, from dusty cottonfields to the screaming streets of Chicago meeting either the most famous, either unknown Blues-artists or songs from the 30's, 40's, 50's...

Pablo Almaraz & Los Voodoo Santos (SPAIN)
Rootless Background

CD PRICE: £7.99

Tom Waits inspired blues and roots music. Beautifully performed, produced and packaged digi-pak. Dirty harmonica, vocals, piano, latin beats and lots, lots more!

"Song writer, singer and harmonica player Pablo Almaraz is a new hope of music who has a clear idea where he wants to drive his music. Pablo Almaraz on vocals, harmonica and percusion, David Martin on acoustic bass and Israel Santamaria on keyboards, drums, percusion and vocals form a daring bright innovative trio who introduce themselves with a particular way to play blues completely different to what is normally played in Spain".

Delgado Brothers (USA)
A Brothers Dream

CD PRICE: £9.99

Los Angeles- Driven by fierce independence, unified by family, and fortified by the brotherhood of music, the Delgado Brothers deliver the musical goods; topical anthem worthy songs complemented by call to action lyrics, soul stirring blues rock guitar solos and Latin-flavored percussion.

Their latest, self released 4th CD, Learn to Fly, is testament to the bands long evolution and scope of musical diversity. Raising a variety of real world concerns from the topical, ‘I Wanna Know (what the fighting's about)’, to the meaningful and brilliantly nuanced, ‘Man without Plan’.

Delgado Brothers (USA)
A Brothers Dream

CD PRICE: £9.99

The Delgado Brothers have been considered LA's "Best Kept Secret", but they are over that. When major artists such as John Mayall have covered your songs, and your latin flavored music has been placed in movie soundtracks, they're a secret no more. The Delgado's might just be the best rock band in the world today. They're easily the best Unknown one and if you value real talent and excellent music you'll be completely in love with this album!

Baby Boy Varhama (FINLAND)
The Year Of The Blues

CD PRICE: £9.99

"Stylish blend of blues, jazz and soul"... "of strong uniform quality"..."as a songwriter he belongs to the absolute elite"

Baby Boy Varhama, a singer and guitar player from Lahti, Finland, has been playing the blues and relative music for forty years. His performances have taken him from local bars to Japan, from playing acoustic solo Delta blues to being a vocalist with a big band. He has released five CDs the latest being "The Year Of The Blues" (2007)

Black River Bluesman & Bad Mood Hudson (FINLAND)
Double Headed Trouble

CD PRICE: £9.99

Jukka “Black River Bluesman” Juhola plays Johnny Lowebow’s genuine handmade custom cigar-box guitars, the most special of which is the doubleneck stereo baritone which allows him to play bass and lead at the same time. Andy Bad Mood Hudson fills the multi-instrumentalist functions in this line-up as a drummer-percussionist and a back-up singer.

”The flag-bearer of Finnish alt.blues” Black River Bluesman has always walked his own path, producing his uncompromising and original alt.blues with little regard for the mainstream. The line-ups have changed, but the group has now tightened into a working duo with Andy, who joined the band in the days of the Croaking Lizard, retaining nothing but the most vital elements of the music".

Black River Bluesman & The Croaking Lizard (FINLAND)
Rat Bone

CD PRICE: £9.99

Black River Bluesman and the Croaking Lizard play their Blues in the deep woods and swamps of the muddy Black River Delta way up North in cold Finland. Their unrefined, electric and hypnotic Blues have been compared to the rough sounds of the Mississippi Hill Country artists as well as to anything between Tom Waits and Jim Morrison or psychoblues and garage. Whatever the influences may be, they play their Blues with no compromises - just the way they feel.

Black River Bluesman & The Cockroach Combo (FINLAND)
Not A Dog-gone Thing

CD PRICE: £9.99

“Jukka ´Black River Bluesman´ and his Cockroach Combo destroyed the woods and the mountains around their tiny hometown of Mustio Finland by carving their guitars, drums and harmonicas from whole ironwood trees with their bare hands and by using John Henry´s twelve pound hammer (with four foot handle) they beat down those mountains for brass, silver and iron (and coal to fire this thing) to fashion the rest of the parts they needed. When they were finished they stomped their thirst with a bottle of RL Burnside´s Bloody mthrfckr and sat down in the full moon light at that muddy crossroads between Holly Springs Mississippi, Mustio and County Kisko to play Their raw dirty beautiful Blues.”
Rick Saunders, Deep Blues (USA), August 2006

Black River Bluesman & The Cockroach Combo (FINLAND)
Ants In My Kitchen

CD PRICE: £9.99

"Black River Bluesman don't play no pretty music. Their blues are raw and powerful, played straight from the heart. Black River Bluesman brought the house down with their performance at Torun Blues Meeting this November (2004) and people went crazy. This is the blues played the way I like."
Przemek Draheim, "Glosem Bluesa"

The story of Black River Bluesman and the Cockroach Combo: We are all countrymen born in the 50´s and live out in the woods of Southern Finland in a tiny village called Mustio - Black River in English, except Kid, who used to live in a close-by county called Kisko.

The Dirty Robbers (UK)
The Dirty Robbers

CD PRICE: £9.99

Yes yo, The Dirty Robbers are here! Having just recorded a Live Sessions for Mark Lamarrs Radio 2 Show 'Gods Jukebox', the band are making waves, with forthcoming tours around the country. Get a piece of them right here.

The Dirty Robbers (UK)
Please Mr Jailer

CD PRICE: £12.99

Here it is Ladies & Gentlemen, the hot follow up album to The Dirty Robbers stonking debut. Mainly all originals this time, more adventurous tunes and arrangements with added horns and keys but still unmistakeably them Dirty Robbers! Brilliant!

Down Home (SPAIN)
Running Out Of Time

CD PRICE: £9.99

Crazy bluesin’ shaky rhythm & groovy boogie!

Barcelona’s Down Home have been shaking venues and festivals with their particular “neo swing crazy bluesin’ shaky rhythm & groovy boogie”.
Running Out Of Time is their first release, they have nothing but the most personal way to put together a voice, a slide guitar, a double bass, two saxophones, drums and playing original songs inspired by the 50’s swing & blues with the taste of this new century.

Benny Guitar Carr & Hot Rats (UK)
Red Hot

CD PRICE: £9.99

If Tom Waits mother had got together with Howlin' Wolf - you'd probably end up with Ben Carr ! When he and the Hot Rats hit the Voodoo Lounge in Exeter, they unfailingly tear the place apart with the kind of rip roaring rambunctious show that has mothers clutching their daughters and old men chasing their mothers. A true original who takes no prisoners every time he plays, the Hot Rats have got the most pulverising original sound I've heard this year.....

The Blue Suedes (USA)
Blam!

CD PRICE: £9.99

Hot & Swinging West-Coast Rhythm & Blues!

Recorded in Hollywood, California.
Produced by Pep Torres.