Guitarist/singer Dudley Taft announces a May 7 release date for his new CD, Deep Deep Blue, coming from his own American Blues Artist Group Records. On Deep Deep Blue, Taft pulls together his influences – geographical, biographical and musical – and filters them through his blue soul. The result is a genre-busting slab of tunes, blending his Midwestern roots with his love of the blues, the British Invasion and Southern Rock, seasoned with songwriting and musicianship nurtured through 30-plus years as a musician.

We sat down with Reverend Peyton to talk about his new album, Between The Ditches, his “revolutionary” new underground blues tour featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart & Jimbo Mathis, delta blues finger picking giant Charley Patton!

Alvin Lee, the guitarist and singer for English blues-rock band Ten Years After has passed away.

Songs inspired by Cotton’s colorful and sometimes perilous life and his memories of the Mississippi Delta, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Memphis, Sun Records, Chicago, and Muddy Waters.

American female Blues singer with a raw sexuality, ideally with unruly hair and, oh yes, a voice that erupts like the entire field of the Daytona 500 blowing past and nobody’s having engine trouble.

Have you ever asked a child what they learned in school and the reply be “a song called ‘Deel Elem Blues’ then we blogged about the experience and learned how to make better decisions”?

Celebrated classic rock guitar hero Dan Toler, who played with Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts and Great Southern and The Allman Brothers, has passed away after a battle with a deadly disease.

Paul C.P. McIlhenny, the CEO and chairman of the company that makes Tabasco sauce has died in the city that he loved, New Orleans. He was 68.

Big Joe Stomp Box Company and the American Blues Scene Magazine have teamed up to give YOU the opportunity to WIN a Big Joe Stomp Box “Vintage Tube” Pedal — a $229 VALUE! Find out how to win

Recorded at Bearly’s House of Blues in Halifax, Live In Halifax is varied, soulful, and the next best thing to being there at a 24th Street Wailers show. The great thing about this album is that it accurately captures all the energy and talent of the band, and the appreciation of the audience.