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Music is medicine. Sometimes it’s a lifeline.

“I don’t want to play it like it’s already been played.”

One of the mightiest bluesmen I’ve ever known has passed, just a month shy of his 88th birthday. The Mississippi-born gentleman of the blues: Big George Brock.

“Looking back at the severity of his symptoms, he feels like it’s a miracle that he is feeling much better.”

Oria Aspen has the talent, originality and that special ingredient needed to be whatever she wants to be in the world of music.

There’s Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. And then there’s Jolie Holland: the present day éminence grise of the…

Buckley’s Chicago blues sound is melodic, rhythmic, and haunting.

Like Forest Gump, Dick Waterman has always been where the tipping points are in blues.

We are saddened to learn that the Mississippi John Hurt Museum (his original home) was burned down early Wednesday morning “only hours after receiving landmark status.”

Chris Layton’s influence far transcends that of being the backbone for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s virtuosity.