On ‘Seven Blues Classics,’ Giles pays homage to American blues music’s true greats from the Delta to Chicago.

His time with the Drifters allowed him to grow vocally, and what you hear on his new album ‘It Ain’t Easy’ is blues from the soul.

In a new book called ‘Chicago Blues History: Preserving the Past,’ author and musician Brant Buckley takes us on a photographic grave tour honoring eighty of the greatest Chicago blues artists of all time.

“This first single, ‘2024,’ is one of the songs about the darkness of the world, but it’s not as though we have a choice. Life doesn’t come with an alternative. No matter, ‘we have to carry on’ and we should ‘always ask for more.’”