Blues

• Buddy Guy: Against All Odds

  30-07-2026 19:49 via americanbluesscene.com
  
  Editor’s Note: Don Wilcock wrote Buddy Guy’s 1993 authorized biography, Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues, chronicling the bluesman’s remarkable journey from the Chicago blues scene to international recognition.Buddy Guy turns 90 today. At age 10 he told his mother he couldn’t wait until he was a man. “She used to look at me and say, ‘Ok, when you get to be a man, you got to go where you don’t want to go’ and I just realized she was telling me th
  
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• Exclusive Video Premiere: The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra Shares Title Track “What Can We Do?”

  30-07-2026 19:00 via americanbluesscene.com
  
  The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra (APSO) returns with a powerful reminder that music can be both a reflection of the world’s challenges and a call to action. American Blues Scene is proud to exclusively premiere the video for “What Can We Do?” — a moving collaboration featuring the Sons of the Soul Revivers and a message of hope, unity, and collective responsibility.
  Led by two-time Grammy nominee Willy Jordan (Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio), APSO has always been built
  
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• Remembering Glen Hansard: Oscar-Winning, Grammy-Nominated Singer-Songwriter Dies Aged 56

  30-07-2026 15:10 via americanbluesscene.com
  
  I first saw the news on Facebook in a post by Nikki O’Neill. Irish singer/songwriter Glen Hansard died in a single vehicle motorcycle crash around 4:30am local time west of Dublin. My first thought was that another talent has left us too soon.Hansard is known for his roles in the movies The Commitments (Outspan Foster) and Once (Guy). A fan theory – never confirmed- he is the same character in both movies. The theory is based on Mansard’s last scene in The Commitments where he
  
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