【Cure a Sour Stomach with Slide Guitar? New Tracks from Eddie 9V and Sonny Landreth, and Warren Haynes' Grand Scheme】 The autumn night air has gotten noticeably chilly. As I slowly sip cheap bourbon and stare into the grooves of a worn-out record, a thought crosses my mind: "Why do bluesmen make their guitars wail so intensely?" The strings cry out before a human even sheds a tear. Left by a woman, wallet empty, back pain getting progressively worse. No wonder they can't escape the cage of those 12 bars for the rest of their lives. But right into our everyday lives, soaked in such sorrow, comes some irresistible good news from Blues Rock Review. The lineup featured in this week's "Blues Rock Weekly" is remarkably rich and flavorful. Word has it that Eddie 9V and Sonny Landreth have each dropped new tracks. And if that wasn't enough, heavy-hitting guitarist Warren Haynes—one whose name silences even crying children—has apparently been talking about his own upcoming symphonic album. …

【[Bad News] Fired Despite Writing a Mega-Hit?! The Brutal Rock Tale of the "Too Popular Guy" Revealed by Legendary Drummer Carmine Appice】 Hey, hey, hey, headbangers across the nation! Still ringing your ears in front of a Marshall amp today?! It’s me, your writer Johnny Thunderstone! Having your tinnitus ring in B minor is just a standard feature, so don’t worry about it! Now, being a drummer is a perpetually unappreciated gig. You show up to the rehearsal studio before anyone else, set up the drum kit, sweat buckets as you snap drumsticks like firewood, and after rehearsal, you’re the last one cleaning up. Yet, at the post-gig wrap party, all the squealing adoration goes to the vocalist who’s constantly fussing over his bangs, or the guitarist who lines up 30 effector pedals on the floor and whines, "My distortion isn't cutting through today because of the weather..." I still remember the night back in the day when I picked up a drummer's dropped stick, only for a fan to ask, "Are you a roadie?" and chugged a beer in tears. But! There was a man who shattered the hierarchy of the drumming world. He is a super-legend who carved his name into hard rock and heavy metal history: Carmine Appice! …

【Your hips will automatically hit the snare! Quavo and Pharrell Williams' ultimate tag-team album 'Qrömelife' finally has a countdown to birth!】 Hey hey hey! What's up, groove addicts across the universe!? It's your JOCOLLA Music News funk attack captain, Funky Dave Monroe! Close that Excel sheet you're working on right now! Stop typing on your PC keyboard and at least lay down an 8-beat right there on the spot. An insane, oversized funk bomb has just been dropped! That's right, Quavo from Migos has officially announced the release of his new album 'Qrömelife', entirely produced by the battle-hardened groove wizard Pharrell Williams! ### Honestly, the author almost looked like a weirdo for shaking his hips too hard on his commute train …

【Does Playing in the Dirt Share Roots with the Blues? The Rich Depth of Maya de Vitry’s "All My Faith" Delivered from Sweltering Nashville】 The ice in a glass of cheap whiskey clinks and melts away. Facing the night breeze, a thought crosses my mind: "Where did I water the wrong seed in my life?" Hello there, I'm Memphis Ray, the resident weary-writer for JOCOLLA Music News. Are you soaking deep in the melancholy of life and the 12-bar mud pit tonight as well? Well, the artist I want to feature this time is Maya de Vitry, a former member of The Stray Birds who is now carving out a solid path as a solo roots music singer-songwriter. Reading her interview with the U.S. media outlet American Blues Scene almost made me spit out my rocks glass. …

【【A Feast of Darkness and the Open Sea】Devil Master Surprise-Announces Fall North American Tour! Plus, Visions of Atlantis Invade the World's Biggest Metal Cruise, "70000 Tons Of Metal"!】 Hey, hey, hey, headbangers of the world! Are your ears ringing like they should?! What's up, it's Johnny Thunderstone, the loud-noise commando here at JOCOLLA Music News! As a result of shoving my head right against a Marshall cabinet in the front row of live houses, my hearing is pretty much 100% fuzz in the high frequencies. Just last night, while I was greedily blasting guitar riffs in the middle of the night, I got a furious "wall-bang" from the neighbor like I'd killed their parents! But hey, that angry beat was literally the rhythm of a 220 BPM double-bass pedal, so I almost started air-drumming along and nearly got the cops called on me. I regret nothing, though I might reflect on it! Anyway, who cares about my crazy daily life? Tonight, too, some blistering hot news designed to snap your neck right off has dropped from the heavy metal world!…

【The Man Who Created the Dawn of Explosive Funk! Early The Gap Band Member Ray D. Rowe Departs for Heaven at 90—Sending Love to the Groove That Never Stops】 Hey everybody! It's your groove-addicted party person, Funky Dave Monroe! This morning, as I was soaking in some funk on my usual packed commuter train, I was grinding my hips so hard to the baseline without realizing it that the salaryman next to me gave me a cold, double-take look and said, "Um, you're bumping into me..." But hey, once the 16-beat is lodged in your hips, nobody can stop it! ...Or at least, that's the usual high-energy pitch I'd love to drop, but some news has flown in from Tulsa, Oklahoma, that'll tighten the chest of every funk head out there. …

【When a Disco Monument is Drenched in Mud, the Finest Southern Soul is Born—Eddie 9V Unleashes a Roar Full of Duane Allman’s Spirit on "Rock Your Baby"】 In the silence of the deep night, an ice cube clinks against cheap whiskey. Pulling something out from the back of the record shelf at this hour—should it be a dusty disco single, or something soaked in the smell of mud, Southern Soul? Tonight, we’ve received news so exhilarating it feels like taking both of those things, skipping the compromise, and drinking them straight down with a shot of bourbon. Atlanta-born blues prodigy Eddie 9V. This man has dropped an absolute bomb. He has taken "Rock Your Baby"—the sweet, melting disco anthem by George McCrae that topped the US and UK charts in 1974—and completely dismantled and rebuilt it into a gritty slab of Southern Soul and blues. …

【Take out your earplugs and feast on the blast! Absolute Power drops an explosive new video, plus terrifying new dispatches from the Dutch dark realm by Cirith Gorgor and Fluisteraars!】 Hey hey hey, headbangers across the land! Still shaking your neckbones with a smile today?! Can't stop the ringing in your ears? Excellent, that's proof the god of rock is whispering right in your ear! My own ears—thanks to spending years planted right at the front of live houses shoving my head into Marshall cabinets—have cicadas buzzing away in them 24/7/365, courtesy of yours truly, writer Johnny Thunderstone! Now, my home closet is 98% packed with black band tees, leaving your trusty writer completely stranded without a single proper outfit for the occasional family gathering. But wave goodbye to worries like that, because red-hot news straight from the underground labyrinth has just come crashing in! From the traditional heavy metal soul-stirring new lyric video by Absolute Power, all the way to the latest intel on Dutch dark clouds Cirith Gorgor and Fluisteraars, we're bringing you a relentless triple-threat! Crank that volume knob all the way to the right and listen up sitting seiza-style right in front of your speakers!!…

【Hips swaying to the beat on their own! Victoria Monét drops thick new track "Juicy" & John Legend teams up with Pharrell Williams! Major autumn groove storm warning in effect】 Hey hey hey, all you funk fanatics, are you still breathing?! It's your writer, Funky Dave Monroe! This morning, the second I blasted a slap-bass-heavy track instead of my usual alarm, my pelvis spontaneously started zigzagging left and right, sending me spilling a cup of freshly brewed hot coffee all over my desk. My white shirt is dyed a lovely shade of café au lait, but that's totally fine. Because a much hotter, juicer big wave of groove is crashing down upon us right now! Funk addicts, brace yourselves and read on. Today I'm serving up top-tier news so good it'll drag even the most stubborn adults with lower back pain straight back to the dance floor! …

【A Quarter Century of Bob Dylan's Love and Theft: Listen to Withered Blues on a Night When Cheap Whisky Ice Melts】 Every time the melting ice clinks in the glass, the author’s stomach lining lets out a tiny scream. You can't fight the advancing years, but this sound and the 12-bar blues are the two things I just can't give up. Spinning on the turntable tonight is Bob Dylan's miraculous roots music tapestry, Love and Theft. Before you know it, a quarter of a century—25 long years—has slipped by since its release. A quarter of a century is enough time for a newborn baby to be thoroughly battered by the rough seas of society and start grumbling at an izakaya. My own hair has receded quite a bit in that span, but the glossy, matured richness of this album hasn't faded by a single millimeter. ### September 11, 2001: "Gritty Rebirth" Delivered on a Day of Upheaval …