Santana led things off with a video tribute to Woodstock, which set the mood of how Mr. Carlos Santana rolls, who he is and what he does.

When you think of historic Chicago blues and R&B labels, Chess, Vee-Jay, Brunswick, and Delmark probably first come to mind. However, the city’s famous Black music scene spawned many indie labels.

Of Hooker’s innumerable recordings, the Riverside session is perhaps the truest to his Mississippi roots.

“I’m thrilled and honored to be back with my friends at SiriusXM,” says Copeland.

“‘LEMONADE’ is the best CD I have ever done with the best musicians I have ever had the pleasure to work with, Bob Malone, Doug Belote and Carl Dufrene Jr. So there!”

It sounds like Rein was born on a blues club stage with a guitar in her hands and a rocking band behind her.

“I think you have to argue as a school founded on Jazz, Jazz was founded on Blues.”

As temperatures reached just over 105 degrees when Ziggy took the stage, it did not keep fans from filling this outdoor, well-kept secret venue in the Valley of the Sun.

The bluesy, richly textured “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” was written by Abair and Tyrone Stevens and is a haunting dig through the wreckage of love lost and the attempt to reclaim inner strength.

“Wherever I go I find a bowlegged woman, whether it’s Kansas City or anywhere.” – Bobby Rush