Don’t miss your chance to experience the blues, food, and more with the local folks. Visit with old friends and make some new ones!
Year: 2017
Members of the Bland family, including his widow, Willie Mae, son Robb Bland, and daughter Patrice Moses, will be on hand for the unveiling.
Now some of you might be raising your eyebrows in surprise and thinking “A blues album from Willie Nelson? Really?” Yes, friends, he really did put out a blues album, and why not?
Inspired by raw Delta, and Mississippi Hill Country blues, Moreland & Arbuckle brought fierce electric fury and unrelenting punk rock energy to their original songs.
“‘First Words of a Changing Man,’ was recorded on the first night we set up. It’s an exciting, kind of bouncy tune.”
If you have never traveled to Australia and experienced its beautiful landscape and people, add it to your bucket list of music festivals and attend the Byron Bay Blues and Roots Music Festival. You will not be disappointed.
This one-time concert event coincides with two milestones: Jimmy’s new memoir, The Cake and The Rain, out now through St. Martin’s Press, and the upcoming 50th Anniversary of “Wichita Lineman.”
Cuba Gooding Sr. was found dead in his car earlier today in Woodland Hills.
A wealth of wonderful events will happen throughout the week surrounding the main attractions: the Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and the Blues Music Awards.
All of them are on this list for a reason, and that reason is to get folks to visit, and immerse themselves in a culture that was nearly dead, but has made a monumental comeback.