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Month: October 2015
This is the latest installment of our weekly series The Language of the Blues, in which author and rock musician…
This is the latest from The Bluesmobile’s C.C. Rider, who spends her life venerating the founding fathers of the blues. She’s walked the…
There are dozens of blues/rock bands in the current musical landscape, but hearing Dudley Taft is akin to one’s first sighting of Mt. Ranier above his hometown of Seattle.
Best of all, these performances make us smile those wonderful wide and quiet smiles we save for ourselves.
This is the latest from The Bluesmobile’s C.C. Rider, who spends her life venerating the founding fathers of the blues. She’s walked the…
Over the course of his adult life, Ivankovich has witnessed the violence and heartbreak the streets have inflicted upon vast numbers of families in his beloved city of Chicago.
Instrumenthead The Book is raising funds, and you should see this awesome portrait series with incredible musicians and their instruments!
Maybe you’ve heard ‘bout Bessie Smith. Empress of the Blues. Powerhouse in music history. One of the greatest voices of all time. But she wasn’t the only Smith out there. The blues as we know it started with a Smith. And it wasn’t Bessie…
This is by far one of the best records he has gifted his fans with, and the growth he shows here in writing and playing is phenomenal.
“I pull the blues out of him, and he pulls the jazz out of me. Bnois knows so much about jazz it’s amazing. Bnois fires me up …”