Better For You, the second album by Canadian guitarist and singer Chris Antonik is a more than solid effort of uptown contemporary original blues.

“In Performance at the White House”, which aired last night on PBS, celebrated Memphis Soul in grand fashion. An hour long concert paying tribute to some of the greatest music ever committed to disc, it had it’s ups and downs.

The Rural Members Association, is proud to announce the 16th Annual Freedom Creek Blues Festival in Aliceville, Alabama, founded by the late, great Willie King.

The lead singer of The Animals talks “House of the Rising Sun”, an ‘erotic’ trip to the Vietnam Memorial, and his new blues album, which combines the urgency of youth with the creative sharpness of a seasoned juggernaut and the wisdom of a sage.

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.