One of my favorite Blues albums, 'Showdown' was released in 1986. It features Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland. The album even won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Recording. Not that winning a Grammy means all that much. Most winners tend to be pretty mediocre, if you ask me. This is one of the exceptions to that rule.
The Derailers are an Alt-Country band based in Texas.
Produced by Dave Alvin, and with a guest appearance by Buck Owens on the ninth track ('Play Me The Waltz Of The Angels'), 'Full Western Dress' is their fourth album, released in 1999.
Rumor has it that if an instrument has strings, Justin Johnson can play it. On slide guitar, his playing would have made Duane Allman stand up and take notice if the latter were still around to do so.
Mr. Johnson has recorded five studio albums, plus several educational recordings on how to play roots music instruments. 'If Walls Could Talk' is his second studio album, released in 2016. Produced by John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and recorded at the Cash Cabin Studios, it showcases Mr. Johnson's skills on some twenty plus instruments, including the cigar box guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass fiddle and diddley bow.
