Year: 2017

The 2017 class of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame includes Memphis Horns, Maurice White, and Roy Orbison.

In the 1960s, most of our music came on 45s, those seven-inch discs that contained one song on each side. 45s were everywhere.

This is the latest installment of our weekly series The Language of the Blues, in which author and rock musician…

“John Lee Hooker’s guitar sound is unmistakably his. No one else can play like that. It’s raw. It’s intense. It’s everything I want to hear in a blues record.”

“Nobody know John Lee Hooker. They know as much about my cat as they know about me.”

Marcus King joined Mule, and they played an incredible version of the Allman Brothers’ “Whipping Post,” with Haynes and King swapping leads that had the crowd screaming for more.

The Laid Back Festival returns to Atlanta on Saturday, October 14th.

He played for what seemed like forever, until falling to his knees to catch his breath; it was amazing to watch.

This is not a party album, nor is it “easy” listening. Migration Blues hit us like a knock-out punch, right in the feels.

“Each song is like a story and I’m performing that story. That’s been forgotten over years because people over-analyze things.” – Van Morrison