The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was formed by Paul Butterfield. He brought in keyboardist Mark Naftalin and guitarist Elvin Bishop, both of whom he met as students at the University of Chicago. Guitarist Mike Bloomfield, [...]
Willie Dixon’s reputation rests primarily with his incomparable catalogue of compositions and secondarily with his outstanding work as a producer. During his early recording career he made some sides as a vocalist, with the Big [...]
Live Wire--Blues Power captured a crucial moment in blues history when the music was captivating a new counterculture audience under the spell of a master bluesman who could not only bend the guitar strings beyond [...]
More cooperative than competitive in spirit, Showdown! ranks above other blues 'supergroup' sessions in the cohesiveness of the music, as three of the top names in blues of the 1980s shared the spotlight with a [...]
Robert Nighthawk was famed for the majestic, melancholy mood of his recordings and the smooth precision of his slide guitar work. A live album capturing those qualities would have remarkable in itself, but Live on [...]
No one defined the Louisiana Swamp Blues sound of Baton Rouge better than Slim Harpo. Born James Moore in 1924, he would go on to have almost as much success as Jimmy Reed, his chief [...]