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If you love the blues as much as the staff of American Blues Scene Magazine does we know you’ll be excited to help out with this little project.

The widely influential Washington D.C. guitarist  has passed away. He was 76. Parker, famous for his hit single “Watch Your Step”…

Rock icon and Velvet Underground head Lou Reed died last weekend, October 27th. His wife, Laurie Anderson, wrote a touching and fitting obituary for him in their local paper. Discover what she wrote.

To be cold in hand is an expression from the 1930s that’s been popular in blues, including by Bessie Smith, Bukka White, Big Bill Broonzy and more! Find out what it means!

What is Bluzaplooza? Shemekia Copeland, Saddam’s Palace, incredible blues, and hurricanes… all in the name of paying our troops back for their incredible sacrifice.

Muscle Shoals is a small town in Alabama where, for reasons no one’s quite sure of, some of the greatest records of all time were created. The new documentary on Shoals tells it’s story…

Mentored by Dave Stewart and now on her second tour with Ruf Records’ Blues Caravan, Joanne Shaw Taylor has made a name for herself.

Coffee grinding is one of many (many!) blues metaphors for sexual intercourse.

Enter the Big Joe Stomp Box Company. Born and built from original designs in the United States, these boxes ooze quality from every pore

America’s history of censorship of music dates back even further than the First Amendment’s right to Free Speech. Something legendary singer Billie Holiday experienced firsthand…