“Legacy was my first venture into my songs,” Zakiya told me. “People expect me to do hard core blues, but I’m not a hard core blues person.”
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Charlie Sayles will be the first to tell you that he’s not a straight ahead Chicago blues player. He takes a more mongrelized approach.
In my 2004 interview with Pitney he shrugged off this seemingly uncanny ability to fit in with every kind of eccentric in the business.
“I couldn’t believe someone like Otis Spann who had such a huge impact on Blues didn’t have a marker.”
As the band raced home after their European Tour was suddenly canceled, Ruth wrote about how, as many people stare down the barrel of similar quarantine measures, lessons can be learned from the disabled community
While holding on to his deep Blues roots, he has also developed a unique jazz guitar style; playing bass, rhythm, and lead simultaneously.
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London is one of the world’s most famous music venues.…
Poguetry will embark on a tour in the U.S. starting at the end of February and ending in the middle of March
For some of us, including myself, the nostalgia of the ‘90s will live on forever.…
There’s Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. And then there’s Jolie Holland: the present…