APD president Michael Harnett says Iglauer was the first person who came to mind for this new award…

Big Mud Morganfield, Dani Wilde, and other artists describe being touched by the magic of Johnny Winter’s personality and playing

When Ronnie Earl releases new material, it’s cause for celebration. Like fine wine, he improves with age.

GRAMMY Museum in L.A. and BAM R&B Festival in Brooklyn added to national tour dates

Michael Cloeren is on a one-man crusade with the Pennsylvania Blues Festival to prove that practitioners of the real deal are still out there.

After the Blues Today: Chicago Summit 2014, blues guitar great Johnny Winter took the stage for a quick but stunning…

the story of an opera singer-turned-bluesman who donned wild voodoo-inspired stage garb, became a major influence in shock rock and rap, and raised from coffins as part of his set is something out of the ordinary!

The great Johnny Winter has been the subject of several episodes of Elwood’s BluesMobile.

In the blues, a Hambone is usually, unsurprisingly, a euphemism. Find out how it got into blues song, and who popularized it in this week’s fascinating LOTB column!

“I’m not a rock n roller,” Winter told American Blues Scene. “I’m a bluesman.” From his earliest to his last breath on the road, Winter truly lived up to that statement in every sense of the word.