In a new EPK released today, blues veteran Eric Bibb sheds light on the inspiration and recording process for his highly relevant new album ‘Dear America.’ “ “The title, ‘Dear America,’ came to me in a kind of epiphany about what I really wanted to be saying with this record,” Bibb reveals. “I realized that many of the themes have to do with the collective history...

Blues veteran Eric Bibb has never addressed the United States – or shone a light on himself – with such focused eloquence as he does on 'Dear America’, his powerful new album out September 10th, featuring guest appearances by Ron Carter, Eric Gales, Shaneeka Simon, and more.

On the wistful "Emmett’s Ghost” with Ron Carter, Bibb revisits the appalling murder of Emmett Till, whose incendiary lynching in 1955 galvanized the...

Eric Bibb will release his brand-new album Dear America, on 10th September via Provogue/Mascot Label Group. Ahead of this he has also revealed the video for "Born Of A Woman" featuring Shaneeka Simon which you can watch HERE.

Eric Bibb has known many different Americas, the good, the bad and the ugly. Born in New York City on August 16th, 1951, the thunderbolt of the Sixties...