Year: 2017

The International Blues Challenge (IBC) officially opens at the Clayborn Temple, a key site in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke.

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

There are genres in which an artist must rely less on production wizardry, and more on natural-born talent, and dedication to craft.

Basile is still going strong with his latest release ‘Mid-Century Modern.’

Enjoy wonderful blues music by many of the great Women in Blues performers and some of our finest blues brothers, while partaking of Alfred’s tasty lunch menu.

The shows will feature 2016 Grammy nominee Vasti Jackson, St. Louis blues prodigy, Marquise Knox, and American bluesman and educator, Fernando Jones.

If you aren’t already a devotee, this album will not only convert you, but will baptize you in the fire that is Beth Hart.

“One of the most moving things for me doing this work was to unpack the therapeutic effect of this music, and how it helps us find peace…”

It’s also the time when musicians representing blues societies from around the world come to compete in the International Blues Challenge.

“Duane never once, I never recall him, not one time, trying to tell anybody what to play.”