“‘LEMONADE’ is the best CD I have ever done with the best musicians I have ever had the pleasure to work with, Bob Malone, Doug Belote and Carl Dufrene Jr. So there!”

It sounds like Rein was born on a blues club stage with a guitar in her hands and a rocking band behind her.

“I think you have to argue as a school founded on Jazz, Jazz was founded on Blues.”

As temperatures reached just over 105 degrees when Ziggy took the stage, it did not keep fans from filling this outdoor, well-kept secret venue in the Valley of the Sun.

The bluesy, richly textured “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” was written by Abair and Tyrone Stevens and is a haunting dig through the wreckage of love lost and the attempt to reclaim inner strength.

“Wherever I go I find a bowlegged woman, whether it’s Kansas City or anywhere.” – Bobby Rush

More than 40 years since he embarked on his singer-songwriter career, Cockburn continues pushing himself to create—and winning accolades in the process.

The Flagstaff Blues & Brews Festival was a great time.

Listening to ‘The Blues Gonna Getcha,’ there is no question the pure powerful, natural intonation is there as Newcom delivers his lyrics in song.

The festival celebrates one of the most unique forms of blues ever conceived, the haunting Bentonia Blues.