RCA Presents: Colin Linden

Colin Linden is a Canadian blues powerhouse with a 45-year career of producing and playing blues and roots music. As a singer/guitarist, he has fronted his band Blackie and the Rodeo King, and he’s accompanied everyone from Bruce Cockburn to Bob Dylan, Greg Allman, Rihannon Giddens, Pistol Annies, John Prine and more. Along the way, Linden played on over 500 albums and produced 140, including his first-ever actual Grammy in 2020 for producing Keb Mo’s Oklahoma, winner for Best Americana Album. He has also nabbed a staggering 25 Juno Award nominations and nine wins.

Linden’s latest solo album, bLOW, is his 14th in 40 years, but his first electric blues release. bLOW offers a blues travelogue with Bo Diddley-inspired boogies such as the churning, slide guitar of leadoff track “4 Cars,” the glorious Sun Records homage of “Boogie Let Me Be,” the Texas roadhouse blues of “Houston,” and the apocalyptic, psychedelic roar of “Change Don’t Come Without Pain.” Other songs, like “When I Get To Galilee” recall a gospel vibe, while the closing “Honey on my Tongue,” reflects on life during and after the lockdown.

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