Last week, I did a post on the passing of Samuel Charters, a very important researcher and blues archivist. The post featured an interview with Charters, who...
Category - Blues
Samuel Charters, a very important historian of the blues, died March 11. He was 85 years old. This is from his profile at Wikipedia: Charters had for years...
Son Seals is the real deal. He was born in Osceola, Arkansas, where his dad owned a juke joint called The Dipsy Doodle Club. According to Wikipedia, Seals got...
It is great that the 125th anniversary of Leadbelly’s birth is being commemorated with a five CD boxed set from the Smithsonian and a Kennedy Center...
The video of rural life Mississippi in this featurette about slide master Mississippi Fred McDowell is so interesting that the music is almost a bonus. The...
Fulton Allen – Blind Boy Fuller – was born in 1908 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. He became completely blind by 1928. An examination near the end of his short...
One of the most unique and, happily, positive stories in recent music history is that of Doc Pomus. It wasn’t easy. The bottom line is that Pomus...
This is funny, in a good way. First, listen to Buddy Guy reflect on the question of whether white people can play the blues. (NSFW for bad — but totally...
Steve Earle’s next album, “Terraplane,” is set for release on February 17. Here is a cut from the album entitled “You’re the Best...
Merry Christmas from Dr. John, Leon Redbone, Ken Peplowski and The Daily Music Break.
The song is “Christmas Ball Blues.”
