Author: Matt Marshall

Cash Box Kings has scored another hit with Holler and Stomp, a slight depart from their “50’s cool” Chicago style, adding just a touch of Sun Records’ style rockabilly. Holler and Stomp, released by the prolific Blind Pig Records, snaps out of the gate, sucking the listener into a blusey groove, smooth vocals, and country blues-tinged riffs. The addition of Chicago Blues’ early roots sounds lends an appealing, energetic twist to a familiar and well-loved genre. Feel Like Goin’ Home, a take on “Walkin’ Blues”, is slow, sultry, and a bit rough — in a good way. The funky South-Side Chicago…

Through the many devastating losses in 2011, the blues has remained vigilant, powerful, and displayed an unbridled power to stay, grow, and thrive through adversity.

The Mojo Roots’ album Thirteen Shades of Blue raised for the fourth week straight, achieving #1 status in the Blues Top Five this week. The stark combination of soul, slide, harmonica prowess, and swampy Missouri blues has created a loyal and vocal fan base for the band. Bobby Messano fell to teh #2 position, while Dana Fuchs, the smokey, soulful vocal master who portrayed Sadie in the hit movie Across The Universe, made a rapid ascent up the chart, peaking at number three on the Blues Top Five this week. The Mojo Roots’ climbed to #1 fro last week’s #2…

More sad news for blues and music fans this year. The manager of longstanding musical icon Etta James has stated today that the soul and blues singer is terminally ill with late-stage leukemia.

we’re giving away TWO signed and personalized, hardcover copies of author Allen Whitley’s latest fiction novel, Where Southern Cross The Dog!

This year’s 2012 Blues Music Awards nominations have just been announced!! The complete list of nominees is below. Here’s a partial excerpt from The Blues Foundation: The 33rd Blues Music Awards will be Thursday May 10, 2012 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee. The list of honorees for the 33nd Blues Music Awards includes Blues Hall of Fame members Denise LaSalle, Charlie Musselwhite and Bobby Rush. Leading with four nominations each are Sugar Ray & the Bluetones with theirs Evening CD and Louisiana artists Tab Benoit with his Medicine release and Johnny Sansone and his The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too. Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, the Tedeschi-Trucks Band and their Revelator combined for four…

Though Otis passed 44 years ago today, his musical impact has never stopped, slowed or waned. The music Otis created in his six-year recording career has touched millions of lives across generations.

The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have insisted on covering the full expense of pioneering bluesman Hubert Sumlin’s burial.

Thirty six years after his untimely and tragic passing at 42, blues master and rock n’ roll pioneer Freddy King will take his rightful place in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame

We’ve just received word that blues Hall of Famer Hubert Sumlin, like so many of his peers, died without the financial wherewithal to take care of his own funeral and burial expenses.