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Another installment in our new weekly series by author and rocker Debra Devi. This week, we explore the term “Ashes Hauled”, made famous by Sleepy John Estes

This is the first in a new weekly series that focuses on the meaning and significance of a unique word used in blues song. Come back every Wednesday for the latest!

Regardless of how one celebrates Halloween, most can agree that there’s always a hint of darkness in the air at this time of year.

‘Upside Down Blues,’ the debut album from Shyfrin Alliance, is almost as fitting a title as a record can have: twelve songs that fuse blues and rock with elements of jazz and soul to create an alternate musical universe that’s familiar and new all at once.

Shemekia Copeland’s new album ‘Blame It On Eve,’ out now via Alligator Records, sustains a level high enough to which other contemporary blues albums struggle to reach. The list of musicians who sat in is a who’s who of talented headliners in their own right: Americana superstar Alejandro Escovedo, guitarists Luther Dickinson and Charlie Hunter, lap steel master Jerry Douglas, and young sacred steel wizard DaShawn.

Catch three exciting, critically acclaimed blues/rock artists at Berlin Under A in New York City!

Devi is the author of the award-winning book ‘The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu’ (foreword by Dr. John), and will have copies on hand!

The sound of Wesli’s music is more upbeat than most blues. “In the Haitian way of doing music we are thinking the same sadness that we are living out from under colonization. We sing it with happiness, because inside of us we know we are free.”

‘Médikamen,’ out August 25, is Ledet’s first zydeco album written and performed completely in Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole)!

The KBA Awards, chosen annually by a select panel of blues professionals, salutes those who have played crucial roles in advancing the art and commerce of blues.