Cincinnati is loaded with Blues talent. Always has been. Yet it is still a rare and noteworthy occasion when a Cincinnati Blues artist releases an album with primarily original music. Brad Hatfield has long been considered one of the area’s premier harmonica slingers. With his new release, Uphill From Anywhere, he also establishes himself as one of Cincy's most distinctive Blues voices — both ...  

Pink Floyd tribute band Signs of Life make their only hometown tour stop this Saturday at the Madison Theater in Covington. The winners of Cincinnati Magazine’s “Best Tribute Band” for 2011, Signs of Life delivers a powerfully authentic experience for its audience.   

It would be hard to find any album, let alone a Blues album, that includes covers of not only Willie Dixon, but also Sun Ra and Glen Danzig songs. Yet this is what Jason Ricci and New Blood’s Done With the Devil pulls off remarkably well. Add in some hard-driving Texas Swing, a gen-u-wine love song, some deep-grooved Funk and a song even Donald Fagen would love and you get Ricci’s most ambitious, personal and successful effort to date. Ricci and the New Blood play at the Play by Play Cafe.  

Keyboardist/vocalist Cheryl Renee's live shows are high-energy evenings of bawdy, brassy Blues, and she's teamed up with Cincinnati mainstays Them Bones to offer a taste of her performing prowess on a recently released live CD of classic Blues covers.  

Keyboardist/vocalist Cheryl Renee’s live shows are high-energy evenings of bawdy, brassy Blues, and she has teamed up with Cincinnati mainstays, Them Bones, to give us a taste of her performing prowess on a recently released live CD of classic Blues covers. Cheryl Renee’s musical travels over the decades have taken her from Cincinnati, to a world tour with the U.S.O., to Boston, to Knoxville, and finally back home again. She is a seasoned performer known as much for her manic stage antics and humorously raunchy lyrics as she is for her rollicking piano chops, and there isn’t a more cool and professional backing trio in town than Them Bones (“Lightning” Tim Jacoby on guitar, Roger Bates on drums, Larry Malott on bass). Cheryl Renee plays at The Avenue in Covington.  

From the opening track, it's clear that harmonica virtuoso Jason Ricci and Grammy Award-winning producer John Porter are determined to break free of the shackles of the "Blues" tag.