The Royal Mail Hotel, established in the 1840s as a classic Australian pub, and owner Andrew Café have a wonderful history of providing live blues every week for the past 26 years. The hotel has [...]
This summer is the 30th anniversary of the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival. It has become one of the longest-running, most prestigious blues festivals in the world. Held on the shore of the Mississippi River, this [...]
Though he has over 25 years of producing and engineering experience, Frank Roszak began his promotional work in 2004 as director of marketing and promotions for Delta Groove Records, where he was directly responsible for [...]
Though he may be best known as a major player in the folk and country blues revival of the 1960s, Stefan Grossman is being honored for the films he has made available through his Guitar [...]
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 [...]
When Marcia Weaver became Dorothy Moore’s manager in the late 1990s, Moore had virtually quit the music business. Weaver helped Moore through legal issues regarding her royalties, and in 2002 helped her set up her [...]
Gene Tomko started out as a photographer capturing images of the blues artists he so admired more than 20 years ago when the blues resurgence of the ’80s and ’90s was in full swing, traveling [...]
Gerard Herzhaft’s Encyclopedia of the Blues should be an essential addition to every fan’s bookshelf. It was first published in 1979 in Europe, but after many long trips to the United States, Herzhaft revised his [...]
If, as Rod Stewart famously sang, “Every picture tells a story,” then Dick Waterman has both the pictures and stories of the blues. As an agent and manager in the 1960s, Waterman and his Avalon [...]
Jerry Schaefer has presented the only commercial blues radio program in the New York City/Long Island area for more than a decade. His show, Graveyard Blues, is featured on WRCN 103.9 FM on Sundays from [...]