LeniStern_BluesSoulAfricanHeart_DebraDevi The blues is a universal language, and electric guitarist Leni Stern’s fluency has lured her into African adventures…

Claudia Carawan blows away this album with her full and powerful voice!

This week in blues features a hard, hard week for soul music, a busy day for Jimi Hendrix, a powerful recording session with Sonny Boy Williamson, as well as Walter Horton and Junior Wells milestones, among others! Read on!

It was 1969, Zeppelin recorded a track for their album Led Zeppelin II. A song they took credit for writing, called “Bring it On Home.” You may know it. Goes like this. Great song. One problem though – they didn’t write it.

I’m a CRAWILN KINGSNAKE…. John Lee Hooker used to say. But this word’s meaning digs DEEP — back to Africa. Uncover the mysterious and fascinating origins of “Kingsnake”

On his darkest days, he curled up on the couch; window blinds drawn, texts and calls unanswered, but on stage he was described as brilliant, and prodigious. While his departure haunts his family & friends, his legacy is helping others in powerful ways.

From his longtime Stones tenure, to falling into a recording session with the great Elvis Presley and the rock legend of the Dom Perignon bathtub, Keys life was innovative and raucous, while the music he created came to help define an entire generation.

The passing of musical titans, the recording of a HUGE collaboration between Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and much more in this weeks’ “blues past!”

It all started with a flat on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit and an 800 dollar loan. Former boxer and Korean War Vet Berry Gordy had a dream…to create a place where a black kid could quote “walk off the street into the studio and leave a polished performer.”

Blues People is really a remarkable work of art. It presents a perspective of history that is vital, and does so in a way that is honest and evokes thought.