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08/28/2024

Only three more days left to vote for Paul Oscher to win a Blues Blast Music Award in the Historical/Vintage category! Please help us keep Paul Oscher's musical legacy alive. VOTE TODAY! http://www.bluesblastmagazine.com/vote

07/30/2024

Paul Oscher's "Live At The Manhattan House Of Detention, NYC" is up for a Blues Blast Music Award in the Vintage/Historical category. Voting is open to the public right now. If you haven't voted, please help support Paul's musical legacy and vote here: bluesblastmagazine.com/vote
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Paul played harmonica with Muddy Waters in the late 60s and earned his stripes as an authentic blues-man throughout his career. We had the opportunity to wat...

07/15/2024

Voting begins today for the Blues Blast Music Awards. Paul Oscher's "Live At The Tombs House Of Detention, NYC" has been nominated in the Vintage/Historical category. Help us keep Paul Oscher's musical legacy alive. Vote today!

07/13/2024

Spend a night in the joint with Paul Oscher and his blues r***e, featuring legendary artists Bob Gaddy, Rose Melody, David Maxwell, Candy McDonald and Steve Gomes. Blues Music Magazine calls it "breathtaking...howling pandemonium. Let BB King have his Cook County Jail...Oscher has the rawest rowdiest time of all when caught Live At The Tombs House Of Detention, NYC."

Get your copy today at: https://pauloscher.com/paul-oscher-live-at-the-tombs-house-of-detention

06/22/2024

Sharing this great review from Blues Music Magazine of "Paul Oscher Live At The Tombs House Of Detention, NYC". We a blast working on this recording. Those who remember the excitement of Paul's live band performances will hear it all over this 1980s live show.

Paul Oscher music. The Deep Blues of Paul Oscher, Cool Cat, Alone With the Blues, Bet on the Blues, Down In the Delta, Rough Stuff, JUST RELEASED! - Live At The Tombs House Of Detention, NYC

06/04/2024

A great review of Paul Oscher's "Live At The Tombs House Of Detention".

"Edgy, Sweaty and Testosterone Driven R&B From the Golden Age

Sadly I hadn’t realised that Paul Oscher died a couple of years ago from the Covid; but now his family and associates have got his house in order, this live album is going to be the first release celebrating his amazing life.
This particular recording, from the Manhattan House of Detention, aka ‘The Tombs’ simply tingles and sparks with excitement right from the opening instrumental track Off The Wall, featuring a rock solid beat and Oscher’s harmonica playing literally coming up from his soul.
The band literally ‘take no prisoners’ all night and follow Off The Wall with the haunting and soulful Blue Midnight which sounds like a knife fight between the harmonica and piano; then the walls shake during a raunchy version of Flip, Flop and Fly which bleeds into the heartstring tugger You’re Still My Baby.
Paul Oscher was a key member of Muddy Waters’ band between 1967 and ’71, so it’s no surprise that what we hear is his version of edgy urban Blues championed by Waters.
My guess is that the set list is pretty much what the band would play most nights; but for the inmates it must have been like listening to every Saturday night before their incarceration – minus the alcohol judging by the way each song is wildly received.
This sounds like the type of gig you dream of stumbling across when wandering around the dark side of any major city in the 1980’s; so you can only imagine how the crowd feel hearing Oscher and crew giving it all on standards like the bouncing Stagolee, then sliding straight into Stormy Monday and H***y Tonk Train when sparks sound like they are coming from David Mawell’s piano!
Like 99% of live albums, and especially Blues/R&B recordings, it’s less about the quality (although the recording here is A+) but the atmosphere on offer that will appeal to buyers; and trust me you can virtually taste the sweat and testosterone as the band wilfully break the inmates’ hearts during Kansas City and Steal Away featuring the smouldering voice of Rose Melody, which follows like a shadow.
While it’s not clear from the paperwork, I guess this was a late December recording as the band sing a beautiful a Capella version of Silent night where Rose Melody’s voice revibrates around the hall.
The set closes with a sizzling version of Freddie King’s Slideaway (from Hideaway) featuring some sublime and sizzling guitar from Oscher … and the night came to a noisy close.
While I presume that the recording has been cleaned up for modern hi-fi’s but there’s still enough background noise etc. to aid the atmosphere created by the band and The Tombs’ audience to live long in the memory.

Released April 17th 2024"

Paul OscherLive From The Tombs (aka The Manhattan House of Detention)Blues Fidelity Edgy, Sweaty and Testosterone Driven R&B From the Golden Age Sadly I hadn’t realised that Paul Oscher d…

05/12/2024

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05/08/2024

Great cover story and review in Blues Blast Magazine on Paul Oscher's musical legacy and the new release "Paul Oscher Live At The Tombs House of Detention, NYC".

Cover photo © 2024 SweetMusicChica In This Issue Mark Thompson interviews Louis X. Erlanger about managing the music legacy of Paul Oscher. We have six Blues reviews for you this week including new music from Paul Oscher, Dustin Arbuckle and the Damnations, Blind Lemon Pledge, Roger “Hurricane”...

04/08/2024

We're really excited here at Blues Fidelity Recordings, Paul Oscher's label that has partnered with CoolStreme Music Services. The CDs just arrived from the manufacturer for the April 17 release of "Paul Oscher Live At The Tombs House Of Detention". This is a dynamite full band recording with Paul at the top of his game on harp and guitar, and with guest artists Bob Gaddy, Rose Melody and David Maxwell. The crowd is starved for entertainment and Paul hits them with all cylinders. It can be pre-ordered now at https://pauloscher.com/store-b43332ef-31ca-4be2-b766-5f39e5ad5859

12/29/2023

What do R.L. Burnside, Paul Oscher, Bobby Forrester, Bubba Brooks, William Ash and Sunny Lowdown have in common? They're all part of a CoolStreme Music Services storewide sale at coolstreme.com from now until Jan. 5, 2024. Enter coupon code "coolsanta2023" and receive a 10% discount on anything in the store.

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"Rough Stuff" was originally released in the 1980s to rave reviews. This re-mastered journey through Paul Oscher's vast array of deep blues features Oscher on guitar, harmonica, piano and accordion, accompanied on many tracks by Pinetop Perkins and Willie Smith of the Muddy Waters Blues Band. It is....