Before the stages and decades of recordings, there was a kid in Memphis listening to street singers, picking up a harmonica and finding his way into the blues.
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Maya de Vitry treats songwriting like gardening: tending to an idea, giving it room to grow, and resisting the urge to decide too quickly what it should become. On ‘All My Faith,’ that patience blossoms into songs about faith, love, mortality, and everyday wonder.
Bad Apple Blues Club owner Sean “Bad” Apple recalls learning from Mississippi blues masters while confronting the changing culture surrounding the music he loves.
After nearly giving up on recording solo music, Eric Bazilian found inspiration in an unexpected place and turned it into “Better Times,” a song about hope, connection, and finding common ground.
Moses Crouch talks Hill Country Blues, trance-inducing grooves, musical lineage, and the traditions connecting North Mississippi, Memphis, and the blues of today.
Cam Kimbrough carries the weight of his family’s Hill Country blues legacy while working to keep the music of Northern Mississippi alive, relevant and moving forward.
Laura Chavez spent years as “the supportive role,” the foil to whatever was out in front. With ‘My Voice,’ the Blues Music Award-winning guitarist steps forward with an instrumental album that brings the groove, energy, and dynamics she has always brought to others.
Happy Birthday to the unparalleled Buddy Guy!
The veteran engineer behind Mystery Street Recording discusses the art of serving the song, the importance of honest performances, and capturing the feeling behind Brant Buckley’s Chicago Bears anthem.
The Spit Cup and the Jukes frontman discusses discovering Junior Kimbrough’s music at 45, studying with Robert Kimbrough, and preserving one of blues’ rarest living traditions.