For 21 years Holger Petersen has hosted Saturday Night Blues the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s only nationwide Blues radio show. Every Saturday night, for two hours, he treats hundreds of thousands of Canadian listeners to every [...]
Founded in 2000, NorthernBlues Music has become one of the most respected record labels in Blues. Founder Fred Litwin opened shop with Otis Taylor and in 2001 released Taylor’s White African CD and received a [...]
Founded in May 2002 after attending that year's W.C. Handy Blues Awards, the South Florida Blues Society is exactly what a Blues society should be: an organization that has united that area's Blues community. Under [...]
Peter Guralnick has been called “a national resource” by Nat Hentoff for work that has argued passionately and persuasively for the vitality of this country’s intertwined black and white traditions (Blues, Gospel, Country, Soul and [...]
Sam Phillips said, 'When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'this is where the soul of man never dies.'' No one, not even Robert Johnson at his haunted best, came close to capturing the feeling [...]
Since its beginning in 1995, the aim of the Lucerne Blues Festival has been to promote and support the Blues culture in Europe. It has certainly met its objective inasmuch as it is now recognized [...]
Though this Brit began his musical career as a guitarist and bass player, John Porter has solidified his place in music history through his decades of expertise as a music producer. As a producer of [...]
When school children hear Rev. Robert Jones play Son House's 'Death Letter Blues', they are immediately transported into the life of the Delta Blues legend, but a few seconds later they are made aware that [...]
Wonderin’ where Koko Taylor is playing this week? Thinkin’ about when B.B. King is bringin’ the Blues to your town? Planning to travel to Memphis and hopin’ there is some good Blues on Beale? Want [...]
'There are those of us in African-American literature who feel that we are heirs to two literary traditions, the western written tradition and the African oral one, and try in the fusion to contribute something [...]