A Conversation with Doug MacLeod: Doug MacLeod is a bluesman, which I believe he would consider a great compliment–it certainly is meant that way. His...
Category - Blues
I posted a couple of songs from Valerie June about a week ago. Here is one more. It’s just tremendous. Everything she does is, and it’s all...
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown was an extraordinarily gifted musician. Most folks are aware that he was a great and influential blues guitarist. I...
Valerie June Hockett — who performs as Valerie June — was born in Tennessee, lived in Memphis and has relocated to Brooklyn. The 32-year-old...
H/T: Steve Karras People who attack their instruments are great. This is Jon Dee Graham and the song is “October.” Here is more on Graham, who...
Sam Phillips is one of the most important figures in American cultural history. He is a key to the development of rock and roll and was instrumental in the...
A Conversation with Marisa Anderson: Marisa Anderson is a great and unique guitarist in her playing, what she writes and her choice of material to cover...
Jazz Age Music notes that today is the 103rd birthday of the great harmonica player Sonny Terry, who was born in 1911 in Greensboro, GA. Terry’s real...
Memphis Minnie was a female blues guitarist and singer in what was an overwhelmingly man’s world. They should make a movie about Minnie, who was born...
As may be expected, a band that was formed in 1965 and still is touring has a complicated history, with lots of personnel changes, drama and, unfortunately...
