Carl Weathersby - Looking Out My WindowCarl Weathersby was the co leader of the Sons of Blues, one of Chicago's premier blues bands. His debut release under his own name (last year's Don't Lay Your Blues on Me) earned him a W. C. Handy Award nomination for "Best New Blues Artist." on this new CD, Carl plays even harder and funkier, coming up with over an hour's worth of original blues and imaginative covers not old standards. Highlights include the title track, "If That Ain't Blues,"

He even did us some fresh scribbles of "The Damn Rest" to match his handwriting that's all over the first album and it's singles

Becker preferred a full-voiced string instrumentation

Bobby Osborne is one of bluegrass music's true innovators

all live-mixed and effected by legendary UK engineer Brandon Knights (aka Dub Warrior)

a close collaborator of the composer and the dedicatee of the Chaconne

This instrument

and includes the hit singles "Warhead" (No

NPR and more

were almost always in small venues

it provides a vivid portrait in sound of a greatly-valued 17th-century composer

As to the composers

who appeared on the Squirrel Nut Zippers album