Whether or not you speak Swedish, every Blues fan will enjoy flipping through Jefferson, the Blues magazine named after Country Bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson. Founded in 1968 by a 16-year-old Blues fan, Jefferson magazine is [...]
Whether you are flipping through a copy of Blues Revue, Living Blues, reading BluesWax, looking at your favorite CD liner notes, enjoying a Blues Music Award or International Blues Challenge commemorative program, you have seen [...]
You do the math. Over 100 strictly Blues albums since 1971, 24 Grammy nominations, and a slew of recordings that won Blues Music Awards. From his first effort producing Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers [...]
As with so many efforts in the Blues, IL Blues is a labor of love for its creative director Marino Grandi and his wife Luciana. For 25 years, IL Blues has published a fifty-page, black [...]
B.B. King was quoted saying, “Out of the 90 different countries I’ve been to, I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than what you have here.” With the Rocky Mountains as the stage backdrop, the King [...]
Barbara is the prime example of how one individual can sponsor and support Blues music. She has personally raised more than $150,000 over the past 20 years to support a number of local Blues societies [...]
Betsie Brown’s passion for the music and its artists has always driven her work. Blind Raccoon is the firm that has grown out of that love. Blind Raccoon opened its doors in January 2008 providing [...]
In 1972, Michael Frank met David “Honeyboy” Edwards and Blind Jim Brewer, and they soon became fast friends. In 1973, Michael started booking Honeyboy and playing harmonica with him, as well as booking Jim Brewer. [...]
In just under five years, Knuckleheads Saloon has become the place to see live Blues in Kansas City and a popular travel destination for Blues fans to see their favorite bands. Frank Hicks and the [...]
Jean Guillermo has created an amazing multi-city festival in which Blues artists perform in various towns throughout the region of Mantes Le Jolie in France for 17 days. The festival includes 140 Blues events at [...]