49 Highway Blues is an album of 10 Delta Blues classics recorded in Greenwood, Mississippi on October 13, 2025. Jake Calypso & Steph B. were performing just a few meters from Robert Johnson's grave, live and amidst a swarm of mosquitoes.
Jake is first and foremost a well-known artist on the Rockabilly scene, with numerous albums released since 2009. But within several other projects such as Wild Boogie Combo, The Memphis Blues Cream, and Lonely Jake, it's the BLUES that forms the core of his repertoire. This includes the blues of Memphis and the legendary Sun Studio with Memphis Blues Cream, as well as the Mississippi blues, both its roots and the revival known as North Hill Country Blues. A first trip in 2016 led to the very limited release of an album recorded on the roads of Mississippi: Lonely Jake - Blues Never Lies.
Through the 10 tracks he chose for this first 100% Delta Blues album, one can clearly feel his desire to share the true foundations of the Rock'n'Roll he loves, with tracks like Corrine Corrina, Kansas City, and Milk Cow Blues.
As for Steph B., here on harmonica, he is a very involved and dedicated artist in the Northern France Blues scene, as a musician with Yokatta Brothers, as a photographer, recording studio owner, and also as a label and Blues Society member with Yokatta Records.
49 Highway Blues, released in 2026, offers the opportunity to perpetuate the tradition of vinyl albums featuring blues classics and traditional tunes from the 1930s onward, as so brilliantly done by Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, Snooks Eaglin, Jimmy Reed, and many others.
The album was released exclusively on vinyl by Around The Shack Records in collaboration with Yokatta Records.
This is the first in a long series that JAKE CALYPSO has promised to release every year!
NOT BUT THE BLUES
Jake is first and foremost a well-known artist on the Rockabilly scene, with numerous albums released since 2009. But within several other projects such as Wild Boogie Combo, The Memphis Blues Cream, and Lonely Jake, it's the BLUES that forms the core of his repertoire. This includes the blues of Memphis and the legendary Sun Studio with Memphis Blues Cream, as well as the Mississippi blues, both its roots and the revival known as North Hill Country Blues. A first trip in 2016 led to the very limited release of an album recorded on the roads of Mississippi: Lonely Jake - Blues Never Lies.
Through the 10 tracks he chose for this first 100% Delta Blues album, one can clearly feel his desire to share the true foundations of the Rock'n'Roll he loves, with tracks like Corrine Corrina, Kansas City, and Milk Cow Blues.
As for Steph B., here on harmonica, he is a very involved and dedicated artist in the Northern France Blues scene, as a musician with Yokatta Brothers, as a photographer, recording studio owner, and also as a label and Blues Society member with Yokatta Records.
49 Highway Blues, released in 2026, offers the opportunity to perpetuate the tradition of vinyl albums featuring blues classics and traditional tunes from the 1930s onward, as so brilliantly done by Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, Snooks Eaglin, Jimmy Reed, and many others.
The album was released exclusively on vinyl by Around The Shack Records in collaboration with Yokatta Records.
This is the first in a long series that JAKE CALYPSO has promised to release every year!
NOT BUT THE BLUES
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paru le 6 mars 2026
Jake Calypso : Vocal & Guitar
Stephane Bihan : Harmonica
Jake Calypso : Vocal & Guitar
Stephane Bihan : Harmonica