The Country Blues, by Samuel Charters

2016-11-10T17:07:32+00:00November 10th, 2016|

New York: Rinehart and Co., Inc., 1959. Reprinted with new introduction by the author: New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. The publication of The Country Blues by Sam Charters in 1959 was a major landmark [...]

Robert Palmer

2016-11-10T17:07:31+00:00November 10th, 2016|

Robert Palmer's extensive knowledge of music, ranging from blues and jazz to rock and folk to various genres of world music and the interconnectedness of all those idioms, made him a respected critic at Rolling [...]

Roy Brown

2016-11-10T17:07:31+00:00November 10th, 2016|

One of the premier shouters of the jump blues era, Brown has been called 'the first singer of soul' (in John Broven's Walking to New Orleans), 'one of the great blues lyricists of all time' [...]

Bonnie Raitt

2016-11-10T17:07:31+00:00November 10th, 2016|

While most of Bonnie Raitt's songs may fall outside the realm of blues, there is no doubting her commitment to and love for the music and the blues musicians themselves. Heavily influenced by, and sometimes [...]

W.C. Handy

2016-11-10T17:07:31+00:00November 10th, 2016|

W.C. Handy was already being hailed as 'The Father of the Blues' when the blues recording industry was still in its infancy. Handy's compositions and adaptations of blues he had heard in his travels began [...]

Peter Guralnick

2016-11-10T17:07:31+00:00November 10th, 2016|

Peter Guralnick, one of the premier writers on American roots music, is the author of three books already inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame as Classics of Blues Literature: Feel Like Going Home, Searching [...]

Gus Cannon and Cannon’s Jug Stompers

2016-11-10T17:07:31+00:00November 10th, 2016|

Jug band pioneer Gus Cannon, a seminal figure in Memphis blues, was born in Red Banks, Mississippi, in either 1883, 1884, or 1885, according to various sources. Cannon's primary instrument was the banjo, and he [...]

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