Blues Blast One of the busiest artists on the blues scene today, Memphis-based Mick Kolassa poured on the heat with the electrified I’m Just Getting Started last summer but returns to his acoustic roots in style with this follow-up, mixing six clever originals with five covers culled from other fields. A Michigan native who’s released […]

IL Blues TRANSLATION:  Time passes but Mick Kolassa’s recording hyperactivity doesn’t seem to mark time, quite the contrary! 2022, now surrendered to its waning phase, saw the release of three albums in the name of this indomitable knight of the Blues Foundation. Always faithful over the centuries to the dictates of that formula coined by […]

Downbeat Unheralded bluesman Mick Kolassa, who lived for three decades in Mississippi before relocating to Memphis, makes good albums on a regular basis. His first Xmas one is better than good; it has the stuff to become a minor classic. Inventive makeovers of the usual Xmas picks and some strong original songs show the value of Kolassa’s slow-and-easy approach to singing lyrics. His […]