True Blues return to Fight On!
Out today on Yellow Dog Records: Fight On!: True Blues Vol. 2, the long-awaited follow-up to the 2013 debut from Guy Davis, Corey Harris, and Alvin Youngblood Hart. The three first crossed paths at the 1996 Chicago Blues Festival — where the press was busy crowning them “The New Saviors Of The Blues” — and between them now hold a MacArthur Grant (Harris), two Grammy nominations (Davis), and a long shelf of Blues Music Awards nods.
Recorded separately in Virginia, Mississippi, and New York, the record plays like a conversation. Harris migrates a Jimmy Strother banjo tune to Piedmont-style guitar on the title track. Davis reworks Elizabeth Cotten’s “Shake Sugaree” as “Everything I Got Is Done In Pawn,” playing it as if Blind Willie McTell had picked it up first. Hart tears into “Screamin’ and Hollerin’,” the first Charley Patton song he ever learned, on a 1950s Kay flat-top. The originals dig into the same soil — Harris on his New Orleans nights at The Funky Butt, Davis on a road musician’s apology to his family, Hart channeling his late friend Henry Townsend.
Raw, heartfelt, and sounding nothing like a museum piece, Fight On! is a record these three have been talking about making for countless tours’ worth of late-night conversations — and we’re proud to finally put it in your hands.
The early press has been unanimous:
“Still breathes, still sweats, still testifies… an absolute masterpiece.” —Blues Matters
“Sounds historic and current at the same time, totally mesmerizing.” —The Rock Doctor
“Visceral and haunting… the real stuff right here.” —Minor 7th
Stream, download, or grab a copy at bit.ly/true-blues-2026, and let us know what you think!
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