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The irrepressible Mr Nichols pays tribute to the flatted 5th, and explores the myriad ways that he uses it in his playing ...
When you watch Belleville born and raised Tony Vani perform, your first impression even before that first chord is struck is ...
Learn all about Smokestack Lightning Lyrics by Howlin’ Wolf, including when it was released and who helped create this blues hit.
WELL, JUNE IS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC APPRECIATION MONTH, AND IT’S TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND HONOR THE CONTRIBUTION BLACK ...
Sometimes a band’s best songs happen by accident. That was the case with AC/DC and a deep cut from their 1978 record 'Powerage'.
A Connecticut judge has settled a bitter feud over the estate of the late legendary blues guitarist Johnny Winter.
The story of a folk art form with roots in Africa and emergence in the Mississippi Delta, which became the essence of ...
Amidst a film full of musical mysticism, Southern folklore, and vampire horror, one character stands head and shoulders above the rest, not only as a side character but as the soulful pulse of Sinners ...
“Ryan and Ludwig wanted to see the Mississippi Delta, so I took ’em to Clarksdale, went to Cleveland, B.B. King Museum. I connected them with a lot of current and O.G. legacy blues musicians ...
BARNEVELD — Unity Hall and the Mohawk Valley Blues Society (MVBS) will host an afternoon of acoustic Delta Blues from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, June 8, in Unity Hall’s Landecker Theater. ‘From The ...
After all, the seminal Blues tale is of legend Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 49 and 61 in the Delta to be able to play a guitar like no one else.