OffBeat is New Orleans' and Louisiana's music and entertainment magazine. It is the first purchase every music fan should invest in when you arrive in the Crescent City. Published every month, OffBeat contains interviews and [...]
Roger Naber has been promoting the Blues for over 25 years, as an independent promoter, as owner of the twice-honored KBA Blues club Grand Emporium in Kansas City, as co-founder of the Kansas City Blues [...]
Roger Wood has compiled the definitive history of the Blues men and women of the various inner-city wards and outlying communities of Houston. Many of these Texas performers, like Lightnin Hopkins, Johnny Copeland, and Albert [...]
Since 1989, when Ron Esser became the owner and manager of Moondogs in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it has been blessed with performances by late greats such as Johnny Copeland, Luther Allison, and Junior Wells; current stars [...]
The Howlin' Wolf Story, the first film biography of the Wolf, was directed by Don McGlynn and produced by Joe Lauro. Their in-depth look at Wolf's life and music includes astounding, rare film footage and [...]
The Santa Barbara Blues Society was founded in 1977 and has been one of the prime forces in keeping the Blues thriving on the central California coast. Its mission then and today is to present [...]
As an author for the Hal Leonard Corporation, Dave Rubin has written more than 20 books on Blues guitar, including his ongoing Inside the Blues series, and has been a musical director for instructional Starlicks [...]
Conceived by its founder, Peter Fleming, as a better way to promote independent musicians, encourage live music, and most importantly encourage fans to support those musicians, www.bandVillage.com is a global music portal providing musicians, fans, [...]
Dick Shurmans career as Blues writer and producer spans over a quarter of a century. His past work as a producer includes artists like Roy Buchanan, Albert Collins, Magic Slim, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Smokey Smothers, [...]
Hugh Southard got his first taste of the music business in 1978 at the notorious Elbow Room in Harrisonburg, Virginia, which hosted such acts as Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Bonnie Raitt. In [...]