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.

30th annual Chicago Blues Festival on June 6-9, Shemekia Copeland and Bobby Rush kick off the festival’s Journey Up the Mississippi

Band announces development of their tenth studio album consisting of twelve tracks; a mix of originals and covers of traditional blues songs.

The Canada South Blues Society Museum is reporting that legendary Canadian guitarist Johnny V. Mills has passed away. We’ll update this as more info becomes available.