Author: Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall is the original publisher of American Blues Scene and owns Bluescentric.com the shop for Blues, Soul, and Rock n Roll -- authentic music t-shirts where every sale pays artist's estates directly.

The American Blues Scene’s simple mission is to reliably bring the best in blues to blues lovers everywhere.  To that end, we’ve expanded and enhanced the site! We think this will help blues fans everywhere get all of the blues news, interviews, reviews, and articles they can handle even easier! Feel free to browse the new website, and if you see anything you feel should be changed or added, let us know! Bear with us over the next few days as we continue to improve and construct the new site!

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We’re not above relating current pop to it’s Blues influences, no matter how much us blues fans dislike (or loathe or some harsher word) today’s pop. It’s worth noting and appreciating the far reach that the Blues has had on modern music! That said, this one’s a whopper! Let’s lighten up this hump day with a comical yet insightful thought on Muddy Waters’ and The Rolling Stones’ relation to a little pop starlet called Ke$ha. This article came about last February, and, honestly, the reworked MP3 cover isn’t bad! Last week, Fenzel wrote a thoughtful analysis of the song “Tik…

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Jeff Konkel has been running Broke and Hungry Records for several years now, bringing exposure to some of the greatest talent from the land where the blues began, the Mississippi Delta. In the delta, there’s a lot of music. One can almost always go to a juke joint or a bar around town and find blues like many have never heard before… which is the problem; too many people have never heard it. Thus, Broke and Hungry was founded to bring the delta to the masses, so to speak, which they’ve done an incredible job of. We sat down with…

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