Reconsider Baby,' sometimes known under other titles after the song's opening line ('So long, oh, how I hate to see you go'), was Lowell Fulson's wistful goodbye and plea to a departing lover, with a [...]
The quintessential album of the urban blues experience may well be 'Live at the Regal.' Recorded November 21, 1964, at Chicago's leading African American showcase, the album not only captures B.B. King in all his [...]
No performer embodied the spirit of New Orleans more than Henry Roeland Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair. His lasting influence on the Crescent City scene belies the fact that he often struggled to make [...]
One of the most popular and powerful singers to contribute to the birth of 1940s rhythm & blues, Wynonie Harris achieved his greatest hits by rocking long and hard or by making his listeners laugh [...]
Big Bill Broonzy was the royal ambassador of the blues in his day, setting a precedent for the expansive pathways later charted by B.B. King. Broonzy was one of the most prolific recording artists of [...]
When the Blues Hall of Fame conducted balloting for the first group of inductees in 1980, Muddy Waters received more votes than any other artist. The kingpin of Chicago blues during its glory days, Muddy [...]
Blues Records 1943-1966, by Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven, London England: Hanover Books Ltd., 1968. British discographers Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven, both key figures in promoting and documenting the blues in the 1960s, illuminated [...]
David "Honeyboy" Edwards defied the odds by only increasing his stature as a performer as he aged into his nineties with his skills and charms still intact. Both as a singer-guitarist and an oral history [...]
Driving Wheel was Little Jr. Parker's first full-length LP, released on the Houston-based Duke label at the height of Parker's popularity in 1962, when he was ranked in the top echelon of blues artists, along [...]
Johnny Winter burst on the national scene with a barrage of guitar pyrotechnics during a period when blues was super-hip to the rock 'n' roll crowd and staked his claim to fame with his first [...]