Johnny Copeland (1937-1997) was one of a bevy of blazing guitar slingers to emerge from the vibrant Third Ward of Houston, Texas, and one of the city's most powerful singers as well.  Establishing himself with [...]

Henry Gray, who played piano in the Howlin' Wolf band and other Chicago blues groups before returning to his native Louisiana in 1968, was rarely in the spotlight, but he steadily built an impressive resume [...]

Willie Johnson (1923-1995) recorded only a few songs on his own, but as a sideman his storming barrage of distortion and incendiary guitar licks in the 1950s, especially on the early records of Howlin' Wolf, [...]

Latimore, the abbreviated stage name of singer, keyboardist and a songwriter Benny Latimore, has cut a dashing figure on the Southern soul circuit ever since he began touring the 1970s on the strength of hits [...]

Magic Slim led one of the most relentless, hard-driving bands in Chicago blues history for several decades until his death in 2013. Born Morris Holt in Mississippi in 1937, he earned his nickname from his [...]

Mavis Staples, one of America's premier singers of gospel and soul music, has expanded her musical mastery with her performances in more blues-based settings in recent years. The blues is nothing new to the Staples [...]