Browsing: Albert King

Albert King’s 1986 concert album, ‘Live Wire/Blues Power,’ and Lightnin’ Hopkins’ 1961 LP, ‘Last Night Blues’ ft. Sonny Terry!

Today is the birthday of the late Albert King, a man who made a flying-v shaped stamp on music that has influenced countless bluesmen and rockers after him.

“I love the tip, I love the top, I love you better than a hog loves slop
‘Cause you’re a big legged woman, with a short short miniskirt…”

What’s Christmas without Christmas songs? So, we have our list of the 10 Best Christmas Songs, and we’ve checked it twice.

In the 1950s a young singer named Mathis James Reed failed his audition for Chess Records. He was a popular musician around Chicago, but his simple playing and straightforward songs didn’t wow the execs. Chess Records would go on to regret that they didn’t sign Jimmy Reed…

Here is our list of the most iconic blues guitars, synonymous with their players, in the history of the genre.

This is the latest installment of our weekly series The Language of the Blues, in which author and rock musician…

This Week in Blues Past: Two Mississippi Tragedies that produced famous songs, the naming of a Blues Award and much, much more…

This Week in Blues Past has some HUGE landmarks involving a handful of the BIGGEST names in the blues!

Why is an international pop sensation featured on a blues magazine? Because, as Tommy Joe can testify, the blues still continues to influence even the most popular music on the airwaves.