To the blues community – we’re looking forward to this year’s Doheny Blues Festival, as well as the future of the event. We’re very thankful for twenty years of support, but need the fans to come out, especially this year.

“When I go out on stage, and I do a song that the people really like, and they give me a nice round of applause, that is a big blessing.” Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater

Rainer’s 40 photographs on display capture not only the behind the scenes magic of those times, but also played a role in the process of championing the rediscovery of what Memphis almost lost.

“We ingest all kinds of horrendous crap in our music; it’s just like poison, and it’s really popular and people love it, but do you really want to be taking that?”

“I have seen a large part of America, and am still seeing it, but the life of a hundred years would be all too short to see our country…” ~Nat Love

“Rumble” became a flash point for countless musicians including Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck and Elvis Costello.

“As I get older, I am interested in authenticity. I want to see how close to the bone I can get. I want to see how real to the heart I can get. I want to see how real of a song I can write. I am still chasing that.” Tommy Conwell

“The most important thing I learned from my dad was – he told me, ‘I don’t care how much money you make or how important you become, always treat everybody with the same respect.’”

“Everywhere I go fans keep saying they want me to get out and play again,” Betts told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in December. “I think the time is right.”

‘First Class Life’ brings Zito full-circle. Mike Zito’s return to the blues is, in a word, triumphant!