Month: February 2013

Winter tore down the house at New Haven’s Toad’s Place on a recent Friday night, a modest bar and dance club surrounded by the dormitories of Yale University.

We talk with Beth Hart, the sensational and powerful singer, about her latest album, her dreams, the Kennedy Center, and despite legions of fans… being lonely.

If you get the chance, definitely try to catch up with Selwyn this year! “When you come to a show, you see four dudes, or however many people on stage, doing what they love doing. We do everything we can just to play the best music we can (and) try to give the people what they want.”

Actor John Goodman, a Saint Louis native, is the latest high profile personality to advocate the National Blues Museum in Saint Louis in a YouTube video posted today.

During an interview in Spokane about his stolen equipment, Tyler Bryant came up with a song about the town that was featured on local TV, but the news had some thoughts of their own…

Listening to Fulton Blues, a sense of visualization and reality takes hold, making the experience all the more immediate. The clarity and sparseness of the music lends itself to the experience and storytelling as well.

The competition for the 29th annual International Blues Challenge was fierce, but the winners emerged from the Orpheum Theater with incredible accolades and valuable prizes. Find all of the winners here.

This story is starting bounce all around the internet again and we wanted to make sure that everyone is aware this is not actually anything new, rather it’s a bit dated. That being said we think it’s fantastic that people are talking about the blues. So if it’s new to them then let’s run with it.

The headstone of Mississippi Delta Blues legend Tommy Johnson was desecrated just months after finally being placed on his grave in what appears to be a deliberate act of vandalism — 45 years after he was buried.

As many of you know, Eddie suffered a heart attack and stroke while on tour in Germany. He is out of intensive care and stabilized. However, he is at present paralyzed on his right side.