Country blues · Early Chicago blues · Denmark
Deep-rooted blues
Pre-war country blues and early Chicago grit - raw, hard-played and sung straight from the gut.
From the artist
Big Creek Slim and Rodrigo Mantovani turn voice, guitar and upright bass into an 11-song set with bite, space and no wasted motion.
Behind the first door: a declaration of principles, an alternative blues calendar and Lightnin’ Hopkins.
Behind the second door: prejudice, the blues revival and the nourishing sediment at the bottom of the bottle.
Behind the third door: a defence of blues tradition and an archetypal bluesman with several names.
Behind the fourth door: the voice at the heart of the blues and the pioneering women who turned resistance into song.
Behind the fifth door: an unmatched harmonica voice, a borrowed name and a dangerous history with Howlin’ Wolf.
Behind the sixth door: the breadth of Texas blues, the Deep Ellum scene and Smokey Hogg’s country-blues voice.
Behind the seventh door: Oklahoma blues, forced migration, Black cowboy history and the road west.
Behind the eighth door: the boll weevil in blues language and the almost unknown Willie McNeil.
Behind the ninth door: a vital slide-guitar pioneer, the road to Chicago and Maxwell Street blues.
Behind the tenth door: three seemingly modest talents combined into pure, raw blues magic.
Behind the eleventh door: Detroit’s overlooked blues scene and a mysterious country-blues voice.
Behind the twelfth door: a peerless ragtime guitarist, an uncertain biography and a simple Christmas story.
Behind the thirteenth door: a foundational Indianapolis duo and the long history of prison blues.
Behind the fourteenth door: an itinerant Delta bluesman, a nine-string guitar and one unwelcome overdub.
Behind the fifteenth door: poverty at Christmas, electric Delta blues and the difference between “almost bad” and “almost good.”
Behind the sixteenth door: a smooth West Coast blues shaped by swing, jazz and rhythm and blues.
Behind the seventeenth door: a Louisiana blues family, the road west and a singular overlooked guitarist.
Behind the eighteenth door: the huge bends, Stax soul and formidable presence of Albert King.
Behind the nineteenth door: an unsettling 1942 field recording about war, hatred and the violence people carry forward.
Behind the twentieth door: overlooked Arkansas blues, the King Biscuit airwaves and Hawaiian-style lap slide.
Behind the twenty-first door: an upbeat rhythm-and-blues pause as the winter light begins to return.
Behind the twenty-second door: a forgotten blues star, a singular guitarist and a Christmas song by the narrowest margin.
Behind the twenty-third door: a Christmas standard and one of the greatest voices ever committed to record.
Behind the twenty-fourth door: one of the first great male recording stars of country blues.
Behind the twenty-fifth door: Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson and a Christmas-morning meeting of voice and guitar.
Big Creek Slim does not merely play the blues—he uses it as a living voice for the personal, the political and the realities of our time.
Birthday stories and performances honouring Barbecue Bob, Charley Patton and other musicians who shaped the blues.
Albums, vinyl, CDs and the Big Creek Slim logo shirt—available from Straight Shooter.
Big Creek Slim and American bluesman Mark Hummel talk about country blues, tradition and the Danish scene.
Lonesome Day Blues and the collaboration that connected Big Creek Slim with one of the central figures in Danish blues.
Marc Rune found a lifelong language in the old blues and carried it through travels, records and stages across Europe.
Twenty-five days of traditional blues, overlooked musicians, sharp opinions and a recording for every date—gathered into one complete blog.
No matches found. Try another search.
More updates on Facebook →