Month: July 2015

I love the blues because of the fact that it is an outcast child. It is the source of everything, yet it is considered a complete outsider …

Discover the blues origins of MOTHERFUCKER in this new installment of our popular weekly series, The Language of the Blues,…

For the release of Buddy Guy’s hotly anticipated new “Born to Play Guitar”, American Blues Scene, RCA Records, and Blind Raccoon are giving away a grand prize signed Buddy Guy Strat, BG albums, and cool merch every week!

Guitar prodigy Michael Bloomfield was a wealthy Jewish kid who loved the blues. A left-handed social-outcast with such a passion for his instrument he flipped his guitar and learned to play right handed.

Each track is better than the one that came before it, and the cumulative effect on listeners is staggering.

Find out what MOONSHINE really means in this new installment of our popular weekly series, The Language of the Blues,…

Texas blues sprung up out of the land. From oil fields. Lumber yards. Levee Camps. But there’s really only one man who deserves credit for bringin’ this certain style out of the Lone Star state and out to the rest of the world. Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Sam declared that “to me, making music is all about freedom. I believe I have a gift from God and I’ve worked hard all my life to pursue my own vision of it…

Blues is an old man’s game. Rock and roll is about youthful aggression. The Rolling Stones, now all in their early to mid-70s, don’t play by either genre’s rules, but meet the two in the middle.

Ascencia, a Glendale based organization dedicated to raising people out of homelessness, announced that it will hold its first-ever Urban Blues Festival on Aug. 29