Author: Matt Marshall

Blues fan looking for the perfect Music or Blues Festival in Mississippi? The pros at ABS have made you this Top Five blues festival guide to discover Mississippi Blues Festivals with the best live music lineups, vendors, arts, food, and attractions. Juke Joint Festival April, Clarksdale, Mississippi The unofficial kickoff to Festival season happens where American Music first exploded: Clarksdale, Mississippi. Former home to Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke, Ike Turner and many more, the Juke Joint Festival celebrates America’s musical beginnings on front porches and in old juke houses, the way it used to be. No joke! The festival stages are front…

Blues fan looking for the perfect Music or Blues Festival in Missouri? The pros at ABS have made you this Top Five blues festival guide to discover Missouri Blues Festivals with the best live music lineups, vendors, arts, food, and attractions. Roots n Blues n BBQ September, Columbia, Missouri If there’s ever a best music festival list, Roots n Blues n BBQ needs to top it. Why? The art, the setting, the culture, so many top-notch food trucks you just can’t get through them all, and the best part: big, fat, unbeatable lineups. Every time you think Roots n Blues n BBQ can’t outdo itself,…

Among other treasures are a hand-written song book from Lightnin’ Hopkins, a signed B.B. King Gibson “Lucille” guitar, and much, much more.

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“We used to sit and talk, just like me and you now, and they would talk about life and death. ‘If I go before you I want you to keep this thing going, because we done dedicated our lives to it.’ And I dedicated my life to it now, and every night, every morning when I wake up.

Washington Ave. in Saint Louis was filled with people and the air was electric for the National Blues Museum’s opening. News crews reported, cameras flashed. The mayor and Saint Louis dignitaries were there. So were blues legends Bobby Rush and Shemekia Copeland! Find everything you need to know about the National Blues Museum and how to plan a musical vacation to Saint Louis.

Los Angeles area’s largest Cajun, Zydeco, Blues and Roots music festival, held over Memorial Day weekend, features two stages, a Mardi Gras parade, crafts and dozens of food booths

“On the corner of Nicollet and Tenth, in downtown MPLS, lies a moody jazz club called the Dakota,” the enigmatic frontwoman of Davina and the Vagabonds remarked. And that’s where the band’s new upcoming album was born.

A new verification from the Guiness World Record most successful forensic artist is about to ignite fierce discussion in the blues community.

West of Flushing South of Frisco due out February 16, 2016 via Provogue / Mascot Label Group f. Billy F. Gibbons, Walter Trout,
Warren Haynes, Robben Ford, Eric Gales, And Chris Duarte!