For starters, he was one of the greatest radio personalities ever. And when Rufus wasn’t on the radio hootin’ and howlin’, he was promotin’, singin’, dancin’, and writing songs…
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A history of Jeff Healy, the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, and the “Bonanza All Star Blues LP” by Spivey Records all in This Week in Blues Past!
Dan Aykroyd has just announced the establishment of Blues Brothers Records with Judy Belushi-Pisano, the widow of John Belushi.
Maxwell Street was where Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, “Maxwell Street” Jimmy Davis and other legendary blues artists played their first performances! Check out the newest LOTB!
Luther Allison’s son Bernard used to hide in the closet when Johnny Winter came over to the house because he was afraid of the albino with pink eyes…
Actually, I was supposed to go to Vienna and be an opera singer. They told me I could really do something big in opera, but, my heart is in the blues …
T-Bone Walker 1. T-Bone Walker March 16th, 1975: One of the most influential pioneers of…
Like many entertainment and IP attorneys, I’ve closely watched the copyright infringement case between the Estate of Marvin Gaye and Robin Thicke/Pharrell Williams over the song “Blurred Lines”.
You’ve heard Lonnie Johnson’s “Broken Levee Blues”, but the history of Levee’s remain important to the blues. Debra Devi enlightens us in this weeks Language of the Blues!