Year: 2017

In a region recognized for an amazing musical heritage, this year’s Blues for Willie Festival celebrates with “three days of hot music in honor of blues legend Willie King.”

He is out in the wild, winning hearts and minds with his music the old fashioned way: Performing!

These guys transport you into another galaxy. They’re Rocky and Bullwinkle when it comes to turning rock culture into one huge fractured fairy tale and their Jimi Hendrix collision with a Minnie Pearl dress code breaks the rule of cool that most hot rocks cling to.

The only thing, that can save blues in America, is blues artists making music that people want to listen to, and play.

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

Recorded in honor of his wife of 43 years, soul legend Ann Peebles, the collection is Bryant’s first release in decades.

Dawn Tyler Watson had three months to recuperate from her triple bypass before competing in this year’s International Blues Challenge.

“So we’re collaborating a lot more now than when we first started. It’s organic. It’s normal for us. That’s how it should be.”

House, who did preach in church at times, also sang of the hypocrisy he saw in religion with lyrics such as “I’m gonna be a Baptist preacher and I sure won’t have to work.”

The recordings reveal McMullan to be a dynamic performer, possessed of a wide repertoire and capable of performing in a variety of tunings.