This is the newest weekly feature!! A “Keeping the Blues Alive Award” recipient for Journalism gives readers a cultural and firsthand look back at some of the most historic moments in history!
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A statue for a bluesman, Another’s release from one of Louisiana’s most notorious prisons, the birth of blues pioneers and icons, and the final appearance of a wildly influential blueswoman…
The way the Beatles made all those girls scream at the Hollywood Bowl, that’s how Selwyn and company left the audience feeling on the inside.
The blues harp goes all the way back to a Chinese Emperor! See how the harp successfully emulated the field hollers that became the blues, and why it’s been such an important instrument in the genre!
APD president Michael Harnett says Iglauer was the first person who came to mind for this new award…
Big Mud Morganfield, Dani Wilde, and other artists describe being touched by the magic of Johnny Winter’s personality and playing
After the Blues Today: Chicago Summit 2014, blues guitar great Johnny Winter took the stage…
the story of an opera singer-turned-bluesman who donned wild voodoo-inspired stage garb, became a major influence in shock rock and rap, and raised from coffins as part of his set is something out of the ordinary!
The great Johnny Winter has been the subject of several episodes of Elwood’s BluesMobile.
In the blues, a Hambone is usually, unsurprisingly, a euphemism. Find out how it got into blues song, and who popularized it in this week’s fascinating LOTB column!