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.
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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!
“I’m not a rock n roller,” Winter told American Blues Scene. “I’m a bluesman.” From his earliest to his last breath on the road, Winter truly lived up to that statement in every sense of the word.
The murky origins of the fascinating “Griots”, African magic men and their parallells to blues singers.