Though Tom Hambridge has played drums with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, and Roy Buchanan and on countless award-winning albums, and has had over 300 of his own songs recorded since 2000, few people [...]

After working with Curtis Jones, Otis Spann, Mae Mercer, Champion Jack Dupree, and Eddie Boyd in the early 1960s, Mike Vernon founded the Blue Horizon label in February 1965 with Purdah and Outa-Site appearing within [...]

Michael Freeman’s work as producer or engineer has appeared on 60 blues titles over three-plus decades. As a teenager in London in the 1960s, Freeman was listening when British DJs were introducing American blues and [...]

Andy McKaie, Santa Monica, California Andy McKaie wasn’t in the Chess studios when Leonard and Phil recorded Muddy, Wolf, Walter, Etta, Bo, Chuck, and others. But since 1986, he has shepherded hundreds of Chess and [...]

Called the producer’s producer, David Z has produced (and engineered and mixed and…) critically acclaimed Blues albums by Buddy Guy, Etta James, Al Green, Jonny Lang, John Mayall (with Eric Clapton), Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Tab [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Start in the late 60s with the Bihari reissues or Lightnin Hopkins California Mudslide record, jump into the 1970s with records by Lonesome Sundown, Phillip Walker and Johnny Shines, then move into the 1980s and [...]

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, [...]

We all know Duke Robillard as the founder of Roomful of Blues or the W.C. Handy Guitarist of the Year, but Robillard has also become one of the most sought-after producers in the blues. He [...]