Author: Matt Marshall

The delta is beginning to cool off in mid-October and with the cotton in full bloom, an ancient, tiny sharecropper shack that boasts cold beer & low ceilings with monkeys nailed to it brings the best that the blues has to offer.

A delay in accepting a several thousand dollar Buy-It-Now offer results in a bidding war that netted an 825% higher buying price.

In anticipation of Robert’s upcoming speech in Saint Louis for the National Blues Museum, we sat down to discuss his museum work, the influence (and lack of influence) the blues has had on popular music, his writing, and the special things that make music museums truly great.

Why is an international pop sensation featured on a blues magazine? Because, as Tommy Joe can testify, the blues still continues to influence even the most popular music on the airwaves.

The woman who brazenly attacked the soul legend on-stage during a July festival has officially been charged with felonies.

The Allman Brothers Band legend talks about the upcoming album that he’s wanted to make his whole life, the ebbs and flows of songwriting, and what made “Low Country Blues” a Grammy-nominated hit.

Roaring motorcycles and powerful blues music have long gone hand in hand, but one Illinois man has raised the bike/blues fusion to brave new heights.

The +/- ninety year old, wildly influential delta bluesman has passed away after a long fight with a series of strokes.

On Saturday, Lester Chambers was brutally assaulted on stage after dedicating a song to Trayvon Martin. While trying to make sense of senseless violence is the question, he believes love is the answer.

Lester Chambers, former lead singer of The Chambers Brothers was assaulted by a woman on-stage after he dedicated “People Get Ready” to Trayvon Martin at the Russell City Hayward Blues Festival.