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These songs are bound to bring a smile to your face, and maybe a guffaw or two.

This year’s best blues albums were produced in studios by artists who had time away from touring to write and record their music. 

Throughout history countless women have given the blues a unique stamp.

If you are a musician, you already have the fundamental skills and necessary rational thinking and feeling processes to become a competent computer programmer. Music, like programming, is all about knowing basic theories, forms, and structures.

Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)

Remembering one of the founding fathers of soul music, Solomon Burke, on his day of birth!

Black Lives Matter is about people being mad as hell who are not going to take it anymore. It looks like good change is on the way. I have hope.

The tragedy went beyond just the music, which they say died that fateful night.

Willie once said, “The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It’s better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on…”

The arts will hold our hands through the darkness. These are the backstories of five artists who provided us with survival soundtracks for the year that never seemed to end.