This is not a party album, nor is it “easy” listening. Migration Blues hit us like a knock-out punch, right in the feels.

“Each song is like a story and I’m performing that story. That’s been forgotten over years because people over-analyze things.” – Van Morrison

“Blues was underground, you know? It was kind of hard to find.”

Each song on ‘Stompin’ Ground’ shows a slightly different side of his multifaceted musical personality.

Oliver was also one of the foremost blues historians of gospel and blues music in the modern era.

“I didn’t have a chance to know Wolf personally, but I had a chance to sit in with Muddy a couple of times.”

This is the latest installment of our weekly series The Language of the Blues, in which author and rock musician…

Ingram’s masterful guitar work has been sending shivers through concert goers for nearly half his life, and his vocals display a power and maturity far beyond his years.

At times melancholy, and at others celebratory, the first person account apprises the short life of the original Sonny Boy.

We’ll suffice it to say that ‘Charmed & Dangerous’ is on our list of the best blues release of the year.