Author: Barry Kerzner
“Even at 100 songs, this set is just a snapshot of John Lee Hooker’s incredible and influential career…”
“I think that our music is very flexible.”
The 2017 class of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame includes Memphis Horns, Maurice White, and Roy Orbison.
“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.”
The Laid Back Festival returns to Atlanta on Saturday, October 14th.
“Blues was underground, you know? It was kind of hard to find.”
Oliver was also one of the foremost blues historians of gospel and blues music in the modern era.
“I didn’t have a chance to know Wolf personally, but I had a chance to sit in with Muddy a couple of times.”
Campbell was blessed with incredible writing and performing talent, and he made the most of it. Over the course of his career he received many accolades.
Five of Austin’s top sidemen got together to mix up some Chicago and Texas blues with Louisiana jazz and R&B.