Maybe you’ve heard ‘bout Bessie Smith. Empress of the Blues. Powerhouse in music history. One of the greatest voices of all time. But she wasn’t the only Smith out there. The blues as we know it started with a Smith. And it wasn’t Bessie…
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“I pull the blues out of him, and he pulls the jazz out of me. Bnois knows so much about jazz it’s amazing. Bnois fires me up …”
Welcome to our weekly series The Language of the Blues, in which author and rock…
Super Chikan and Bobby Rush ended the day with an intimate duo show and storytelling session, but not before stopping by Po Monkey’s! Also a Blues Trail Marker unveiled and the International Blues Symposium!
Get the first song of Walter Trout’s new album Battle Scars, “bristling energy, unflagging virtuosity”, chronicling his horrific battle with (and ultimate triumph over) liver failure.
The Piedmont Blues, also known as East Coast Blues, is named after a stretch of land at the foot of the Appalachians—from Northern Virginia to Georgia. The Piedmont…
Monday and Tuesday were the International Conference on the Blues at Delta State University! Awesome classes, informative speeches, and star blues jams!
Enter to win one of several care packages with fun blues t-shirts and posters for the BIGGEST event int he blues spanning two weeks and three states!
“We ain’t lookin’ back, you know, were heading the other way!” Richard Young (rhythm guitar, vocals) proudly says about The Kentucky Headhunter’s new album, Meet Me In Bluesland
This is the latest installment of our weekly series The Language of the Blues, in…