Love Tractor co-founder Mike Richmond premieres “Without An Audience,” a new single about art, solitude, and creative persistence.
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Originally published following a 2013 conversation with Gregg Allman, this archival interview returns on the ninth anniversary of the legendary artist’s passing.
A Beatles deep cut revisited with riff-era blues force and power pop precision on ‘Modernism.’
In this photo-rich guide, ten legendary blues artists are remembered where they now rest—beneath flowers, stone, and sky. From Dinah Washington’s bold spirit to Muddy Waters’ electric fire, each grave tells a story still humming through Chicago’s streets.
With his birth date uncertain, Charley Patton’s recordings remain the clearest record of a Delta blues sound that carried forward into the next generation.
A portrait of Dave Mason based on a previously conducted interview reflecting on a career that began in Traffic, passed through landmark collaborations, and continued through a lifetime of touring.
Recorded in mono with Charlie Parr and a single ribbon microphone, ‘Blues For Dexter Linwood’ captures Todd Albright channeling pre-war blues with fierce authority and fingerstyle command.
Muddy Waters was the most important link between his urban black audience in the nightclubs of Chicago and the young white fans who came to know him as a result of the folk music craze beginning in the early to mid ’60s. Blues fans have heard his story time and time again. Here’s some things you may not have heard.
Before ‘Soul Train,’ there was Big Bill Hill’s ‘Red Hot & Blues’: a fleeting Chicago broadcast that lived and disappeared in real time.
Decades of conversations reveal the full measure of John Hammond — the man who once had a young Jimi Hendrix as his sideman, and who loved doing it all his way. Don’s remembrance carries the weight of history, and the clarity of someone who truly understood the man behind the legend.
“I’ve taken flak all my career about being the wrong color, the wrong this or the wrong that,” Hammond once told him. “But listen, I love to do what I do… This is my life.”