Author: Matt Marshall

Jeff Konkel has been running Broke and Hungry Records for several years now, bringing exposure to some of the greatest talent from the land where the blues began, the Mississippi Delta. In the delta, there’s a lot of music. One can almost always go to a juke joint or a bar around town and find blues like many have never heard before… which is the problem; too many people have never heard it. Thus, Broke and Hungry was founded to bring the delta to the masses, so to speak, which they’ve done an incredible job of. We sat down with…

How about a little Buddy Guy to start off the year right? Here’s Buddy on the David Letterman show playing his amazing single “Skin Deep”, the title track to his 2008 album.

A lot of people don’t know that Martin Scorsese, the brilliant mind behind the movies Goodfellas, The Departed, Taxi Driver, Casino, etc., is a serious blues fan.

Check this out! Twenty two minutes of blues bliss, with songs and interviews by Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, and Slam Allen.

We’re back with the second of three parts of our interview with the piano slammin’ “Blues Diva” Eden Brent!

Dogs & Bones is six tracks of swampy, smokey, hard driving blues-rock. The band has a sweet stripped down style with, primarily, simply a guitar, drums, and base with the occasional harmonica interspersed into the mix. The vocal work is smokey and has an aire of punk rock reminiscence. The first track, (Sometimes) It’s Better Not To Know, has a swampy, psychedelic surf-rock style that sets the tone for the rest of the CD. The entire album has an artfully composed blend of surf rock, swamp blues, and a gumbo of other styles that melt together to make a fun…

Eden Brent is the sultry blues piano master who is topping the charts and thrilling fans worldwide. Her new album “Aint Got No Troubles” is number two, behind only Buddy Guy on the Roots Music Report.

Ray Charles has been called many things, and many of those things have been “genius”. Ray’s blues on the piano had a depth and soulfulness about them that is unrivaled. Today, let’s hear a wonderful live version of one of Ray’s most famous hits, “Georgia On My Mind”, live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1997.

This year’s Blues Music Awards nominations have just been announced!! Included is a partial excerpt from The Blues Foundation:

Four Aces and a Harp is an uncompromising blues album that puts it’s best foot forward. It’s no surprise that the album is simply great; it’s packed with some of the biggest blues talent in the industry.