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Co-organizer Nan Hughes says there is something for everyone. “It’s half blues festival, half small-town fair and all about the Delta.”
When young sportswriter and photographer Dick Waterman discovered the man known as Son House on a porch in Rochester, New York in 1964, he had no idea what he would find…
I love them very much. We’re brothers. We love each other like brothers, we fight like brothers, and we make up like brothers. It’s a team!
Although his uncle introduced him to artists such as Otis Rush and Magic Sam, his first major influence was Chuck Berry and he developed an act much like his idol, going by the name of “Guitar Eddy”.
This is the latest from The Bluesmobile’s C.C. Rider, who spends her life venerating the founding fathers of the blues. She’s walked the…
This is the latest installment of our weekly series The Language of the Blues, in which author and rock musician…
Affectionately known as “Burning Man down da Bayou,” it began as a family reunion on an alligator and crawfish farm that was extended to friends of the family.
Green is certainly not the first color that comes to mind when you think about the blues. But you wouldn’t be so crazy if you did…
Rare and sometimes never before seen footage and photographs intermingle with the anecdotes of Winter as the film follows him on a two year world tour.
Another song that Brown was known for in the Atlanta region was “Atlanta Boogie.” This was among the very first songs to use the words “rock and roll.”