Author: JD Nash

His enormous, yet sadly unheralded contributions to the fabric of soul music will be dearly missed.

While the two have known and influenced each other for decades, TajMo marks the first proper collaboration between the two artists.

Her restate of the vintage soul, rock ‘n’ roll, and blues sounds on which we grew up is as comfortable as our favorite jeans.

Oshkosh, WI – A rare occurrence takes place this weekend at the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. More than one half dozen Alligator Records artists will appear in a festival like none other. A Chicago based label, Alligator Records was created by Blues Hall of Famer, Bruce Iglauer, in 1971. He was working as a shipping clerk for Delmark at the time. When his bosses declined his advice to sign Hound Dog Taylor, Iglauer founded Alligator to release Taylor’s first album. Since then, the independent label has issued hundreds of records from over 120 artists. Former artists run the…

Electrifying the Delta blues he learned in his youth, Hooker developed a driving boogie beat that forever changed the game.

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

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

“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.”

People talk about all the homeless people we have today. The one thing I know, in particular, especially in rural areas, is there are lot of people that are one catastrophe, one mistake, just one more thing from themselves being homeless.

Here is our list of the 10 best beards in the blues.