Blues Traveler was featured in a cute scene in Blues Brothers. Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd, of course) performed Rock Me Baby with the band later. He seems to be...
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There is no reason to link to a dull profile or biography of Charley Patton when the story is told by R. Crumb, the iconic, eccentric cartoonist responsible...
This is an interesting advanced story at St. Louis Today for an appearance at The Demo in St. Louis by pianist Bill Payne, who was a founding member of Little...
Electric Blues T-Bone Walker (Photo: Heinrich Klaffs/) Luther Allison: Livin’ in the House of the Blues/Soul Fixin’ Man Big Bill Broonzy:...
I had the opportunity to see David Lindley perform last weekend through a very nice invitation by a couple of friends. Lindley was eccentric, brought a wide...
Here is a rather odd line from Wikipedia’s bio of Leon Redbone: According to the Toronto Star report in the 1980s, his birth name is Dickran Gobalian, he...
This weekend was the fourth time that Sonny Landreth played at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festival. His name can get lost amid the megastars that Clapton...
Odetta was an influential singer in the 1960s folk/protest movement era. Here is how Wikipedia starts its profile: Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December...
The great rock and blues guitarist died in February, 2011, according to This Day in Music. This is Parisenne Walkways. His site is here.
Wikipedia’s entry on Robert Cray contains a very interesting piece of movie trivia: By the age of twenty, Cray had seen his heroes Albert...
