Arhoolie Records & founder Chris Strachwitz celebrate 50 years of amazing blues from the legendary roots record label next week!
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Matt Marshall
Matt Marshall is the original publisher of American Blues Scene and owns Bluescentric.com -- the shop for Blues, Soul, and Rock n Roll. Authentic music t-shirts where every sale pays artist's estates directly.
We sat down to talk with Chicago bluesman Nick Moss, who is one of the hottest things in blues today, Nick has a lot to say about the blues, his album, and his
The American Blues Scene’s simple mission is to reliably bring the best in blues to blues lovers everywhere. To that end, we’ve expanded and enhanced the site! We think this will help blues fans everywhere get all of the blues news, interviews, reviews, and articles they can handle even easier! Feel free to browse the new website, and if you see anything you feel should be changed or added, let us know! Bear with us over the next few days as we continue to improve and construct the new site!
The International Blues Challenge is coming up!
Shemekia Copeland sings straight from the soul. Delivering her songs with an amazing intensity and maturity, she’s come to be one of the finest, most-acclaimed female blues and R&B singer of her generation…
Gregg Allman’s new album Low Country Blues is, in a word, phenomenal.
Here’s a special treat! Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones, and Johnny Lang, all jamming on one magnificent stage!
Typically, if it says “Walter Trout”, it’s going to be good. “Common Ground” exceeds all of those expectations!
We’re not above relating current pop to it’s Blues influences, no matter how much us blues fans dislike (or loathe or some harsher word) today’s pop. It’s worth noting and appreciating the far reach that the Blues has had on modern music! That said, this one’s a whopper! Let’s lighten up this hump day with a comical yet insightful thought on Muddy Waters’ and The Rolling Stones’ relation to a little pop starlet called Ke$ha. This article came about last February, and, honestly, the reworked MP3 cover isn’t bad! Last week, Fenzel wrote a thoughtful analysis of the song “Tik…
Keith Richards’ 500+ page autobiography has been out a little more than a month, now, and as Rolling Stone Magazine poignantly put it, “nobody expected it to be so good!”