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Author: JD Nash
JD Nash is the former host of Blues Influence on WREN radio and current editor-in-chief of American Blues Scene.
This must have album will hold a special place in your collection. If you ever take it out of the player that is.
King Biscuit Blues Festival “Call and Response, The Blues Symposium” returns to Helena, Arkansas
While folks find themselves in that holiday craze between Thanksgiving and Christmas, this town knows how to throw a party.
“There are special places on this earth. Places of origin. The Mississippi Delta is one of those places.”
“She was an extraordinary ambassador for Memphis, and soul, and R&B and gospel.”
The quartet honors blues traditions, while etching their stamp on the genre in blood.
Sometimes, in order to move forward, you have to step back. That is exactly what Canadian blues songstress, Sunday Wilde, has done with her new release, Blueberries and Grits.
“The film has spent the past six decades in private hands or in a storage locker. Not even the most diligent Armstrong researchers knew it existed.”
Whether or not it was the first rock and roll commercial jingle, it definitely opened the door for many other bands to cut them.
The second woman ever to win the BB King Entertainer of the Year Award, she has a knack for making any song her own.