Browsing: The Bluesmobile

The second annual Blues Today symposium will be held at Buddy Guy’s Legends this Thursday, June 11th!

The lady born Elizabeth ‘Kid’ Douglas, chewed tobacco while she sang. Perched in her chiffon ballgown, she spat without missin’ a beat…

This is the latest from The Bluesmobile’s C.C. Rider, who spends her life venerating the founding fathers of the blues.…

You know the songs. Sunshine of your Love, White Room. And you know the band right? Cream? Well do you know who wrote ‘em, who sang ‘em? I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t Eric Clapton…

A mean temper, with a mouth like a sailor, a penchant for whiskey, and a taste for both men and women, Bessie Smith lived a life that would drop the jaws of even the baddest rock star.

“Pretty Woman” is Roy Orbison’s biggest hit, the best known of all his songs. It took the already famous Orbison and rocketed him to a whole new stratosphere.

It might be a luxury tax, might be a sales tax, might be an emotional tax you gotta pay the one you love.

Mississippi born and Alabama raised. She started her recording career in 1923, which makes her one of the first of the blues babes on wax…

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…

What’s the name Pink Floyd mean? Ever wonder where it came from? How did those two words come together? What if I told you the origin of the name Pink Floyd is buried in the blues…