Month: September 2014

Third annual event to feature more than two weeks of live music and hundreds of musicians!

“To me, his music, with its intensity and haunting quality, was central to the incredibly powerful style we called Country Blues. After all, blues was often about sorrow, hard times, and heartache.

This week features the birth of one of the greatest blueswomen in history, a blind legend, and one of the biggest landmark Chicago Blues albums of all time, among others. Check it out on This Week in Blues Past

Full Moon Night in Memphis is blues of many flavors and subtleties. The music is well played by artists that are inspired and engaged, never failing to excite the listener. Treat your ears to this winning blues feast today.

To jam is to improvise with other musicians. Linguist David Dalby traced jam to a Wolof word… check out where your favorite musician get-together came from!

Leo “Bud” Welch is an 82-year old Mississippi Blues and Gospel musician who’s taken the blues world by storm and now, a featured documentary is in the works!

This Week in Blues Past has two of the biggest landmarks in blues…

In the blues, Jake isn’t just a name! Find out the boozy, interesting, and moonshine-steeped history of the Jake Leg that Tommy Johnson himself even sang about!

What’s so great about the album is that it paints images in your mind. You get these beautiful, folk ballads and old fashioned sounding folk songs, and they leave you with pictures…

The sweet, country taste of Colleen Rennison’s vocals are enough to sooth anyone’s palate of the overcrowded hard hitting and sour tastes of distorted music.