Terraplane Blues' isn't the best known of Robert Johnson's works today, but it was the song most often recalled as a Johnson hit by bluesmen of the 1930s. In the grand blues tradition of automotive [...]
Juke Blues magazine was founded in 1985 in London, England by John Broven, Bez Turner, and current Editor Cilla Huggins. A prime source for articles, interviews, reviews, discographies and photos, Juke Blues is a treasure [...]
Luther Allison broke onto the national blues scene as the hot young up-and-comer from Chicago in 1969, so highly touted that he even scored a contract with Motown in 1973 -- almost unheard-of for a [...]
Got My Mojo Working,' Muddy Waters' rousing signature tune and set-closer for years, and a standard in countless blues band repertoires, surprisingly enough was never a hit single for Muddy. He first recorded it in [...]
Baby Please Don't Go' has been recorded in many variations under many titles, but most of them can be traced back to the 1935 version by Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers, or to Williams' remakes [...]
Perhaps the most driven, impassioned, and creatively gifted of the young singers and guitarists who became known for the West Side style of Chicago blues in the 1950s and '60s was Otis Rush. The records [...]
Riley B. King became the most popular blues artist among African American audiences early in his recording career, in the 1950s; during the late '60s and '70s, he widened his appeal to become not only [...]
Original edition: Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942, by Robert M.W. Dixon and John Godrich, Hatch End, Middlesex, England: Rust, 1964. Latest edition: Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943, Fourth Edition, by Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich [...]
Boogie Chillen set the nation rocking and put John Lee Hooker's name on the map with his very first release in 1949. Although recorded up north in Detroit, it was a guitar boogie of the [...]
Juke' was the groundbreaking instrumental that established Little Walter Jacobs as a national recording star and brought unprecedented prominence to the harmonica as a prime instrument in the blues. Untold numbers of blues performers took [...]