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The blues superstar talks her huge new album, covering Dylan, Sam Cooke, and her father, as well as playing at the White House, paving her own way, and being presented the mantle as the new “Queen of the Blues”!

As a humanist, he was at the forefront of integration, playing black jazz clubs throughout the deep South in the ’50s, a point of pride for him. Dave Brubeck was one of the first bandleaders in America to integrate his group.

Everyone knows Debbie Davies. Over the years she has established a standard of excellence for others to follow when it…

It’s official: Dan Akroyd is reprising his role as a blues brother, along with some help from the rest of the Blues Brothers Band… and he says the first gig is only the beginning!

In this latest installment we get a chance to catch up with the amazing Tab Benoit, we toss out some new ideas about Robert Petway and take a quick look into the life of Stagger Lee.

Guy, 76, is one of the pioneers in the Chicago blues style that pushed the sound of the electric guitar to the forefront of blues music. It was a version of the blues that drifted over the Atlantic to Britain and echoed back in the heart-pounding rock sound of Led Zeppelin

Jump Start is the latest CD from Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials, and their eighth on Alligator Records. Lil’…

For the month of December the American Blues Scene is going to take a trip down memory lane and we’ll be digging out some of our favorite pieces that have previously appeared in our publication. We’ve experienced a year of phenomenal growth and we just want to make sure that our readers, old and new have the the opportunity to enjoy all of the great content that the American Blues Scene is known for.

Derek talks the family vibe of having an 11 piece band, bringing substance back to American music, how being a “orphan band” eventually helped them cross genres, and playing with B.B. King, Keith Richards, Wynton Marsalis

The classic boogie blues riff that was first recorded by John Lee Hooker in 1948’s “Boogie Chillun” became the basis for the court case against Z.Z. Top in 1992!