The Stomp The Blues Out of Homelessness Festival has announced their much-anticipated lineup for the non-for-profit festival’s third annual event!

Come see three of the very best blues bands that Missouri has to offer, in three of the coolest blues clubs in three of the bluesiest towns in the state!!

Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of “Old Time Rock and Roll” and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.

The Juke Joint Festival, Thursday, April 11th through Saturday, April 16th, in Clarksdale, Mississippi is the unofficial blues festival season kickoff, and American Blues Scene will be covering the event in it’s entirety!

Delmark Records legend Jimmy Dawkins, who’s “West Side-styled guitar slashes and surges,” has passed away.

Every now and then a back-to-basics blues album is issued and we are amazed at how effective simplicity really is. Guitars, vocals, and the music itself. This is just such an album. Hans Theessink & Terry Evans’ Delta Time is intimate blues. Simple, beautiful, bare-bones intimate, and inspiring.

You’re invited to join the American Blues Scene MAGAZINE and the producers of the upcoming blues reality show, Moonshine & Mojo Hands for a magazine release party & “Moonshine” fundraising campaign during Juke Joint Festival!!!

“Luther was one of the all-time greats,” Trout continues, “and it was just an unbelievably potent thing to watch him perform. Just the energy and commitment that guy had, he was one of a kind. We played together once, at the Jazz Fest that year, and just as we walked offstage, somebody pointed a camera and we hugged and smiled.

To Help Bring Attention to Public Radio Music Month, Alligator Records is GIVING AWAY an absolutely FREE 17-Song Sampler!

Producer and engineer behind Led zeppelin’s most iconic work, as well as Exile On Main Street and much more has passed away.