https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/en-usCopyright (C) 2026 newslocker.comFri, 10 May 2019 09:34:00 +0200 First-time winners Ben Harper and Sugaray Rayford joined veteran BMA honorees Buddy Guy and Marcia Ball among the triumphant musicians at the gala ceremony hosted by Little Steven Van ZandtBilly Branch & Lurrie Bellphoto by Joseph A. Rosen
Colin James & Colin LindenPhoto by Alex Ginsburg
Shemekia CopelandPhoto by Joseph A. Rosen
Mindi Abair, William Bell, &]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-blues-music-awards-2019-winners-announced/Fri, 10 May 2019 09:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-blues-music-awards-2019-winners-announced/ The Blues Tent, one of many stages at The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was jam packed. Spilling outside, folks were gathered to get a peek or have a listen to this legendary performer. Scaggs played for almost an hour and a half, playing old and new, his recognizable voice sounding as strong as ever. The one]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boz-scaggs-at-jazz-fest-2019/Tue, 07 May 2019 14:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boz-scaggs-at-jazz-fest-2019/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/glenn-alexander-hosts-cancer-benefit-pig-gig-2019/Fri, 03 May 2019 12:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/glenn-alexander-hosts-cancer-benefit-pig-gig-2019/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/capitol-theater-and-ruth-eckerd-hall-have-pre-sale-tickets-for-leela-james-dave-koz-amp-friends-and-more/Sun, 28 Apr 2019 14:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/capitol-theater-and-ruth-eckerd-hall-have-pre-sale-tickets-for-leela-james-dave-koz-amp-friends-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/oscar-wilson-a-cash-box-king/Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/oscar-wilson-a-cash-box-king/ The Iceman Special, formed in the Crescent City, call themselves a swamp funk band. They’re a four-piece combo of organized chaos, made up of two brothers, Will (voca]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-iceman-special-at-jazzfest/Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-iceman-special-at-jazzfest/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/barre-none-its-aqua-lung-2019/Sun, 21 Apr 2019 13:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/barre-none-its-aqua-lung-2019/ Mixing tough Chicago]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-cash-box-kings-return-with-hail-to-the-kings/Sat, 20 Apr 2019 11:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-cash-box-kings-return-with-hail-to-the-kings/ Hot on the heels of their JUNO-nominated (Canada’s Grammy) 2017 album, Something I’ve Done, Downchild have announced a special 50]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/legendary-downchild-blues-band-announce-50th-anniversary-tour/Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/legendary-downchild-blues-band-announce-50th-anniversary-tour/  
The Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame welcomes its 40th class Wednesd]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/past-and-present-greats-will-be-celebrated-during-blues-music-awards-week/Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/past-and-present-greats-will-be-celebrated-during-blues-music-awards-week/ Promoter Kenn Moutenot of Saloon Studios Live is laying claim to what will be Woodstock South, with the greatest number of original Woodstock artists of any festival. There will be 10 bands per day over 3 the day event.
Listen to Moutenot lay out the details in an interview with the Mark Moses Show.&n]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kenn-moutenot-of-saloon-studios-live-to-bring-woodstock-experience-to-central-florida/Fri, 19 Apr 2019 01:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kenn-moutenot-of-saloon-studios-live-to-bring-woodstock-experience-to-central-florida/ The BMA Awards Ceremony and Blues Hall of Fame Induction Gala highlight the Blues Foundation’s festivities, which also includea new exhibit, book events, panel discussions and music, music, music!CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE BMA & BHOF TICKETSMEMPHIS, Tenn.—The Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Week delivers an abundance of amazing events]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/news-blues-music-awards-week-schedule-announced-kicking-off-may-8th-in-memphis-bma-awards-ceremony-blues-hall-of-fame-induction-gala-and-more/Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/news-blues-music-awards-week-schedule-announced-kicking-off-may-8th-in-memphis-bma-awards-ceremony-blues-hall-of-fame-induction-gala-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alice-howe-debuts-with-visions/Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alice-howe-debuts-with-visions/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/corey-dennison-better-man-blues/Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/corey-dennison-better-man-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tony-campanella-is-taking-it-to-the-street/Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tony-campanella-is-taking-it-to-the-street/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kenny-wayne-shepherd-band-distills-a-quarter-century-to-deliver-the-traveler/Sat, 13 Apr 2019 12:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kenny-wayne-shepherd-band-distills-a-quarter-century-to-deliver-the-traveler/ Born October 10th, 1969 on a farm in Canton, Mississippi, the youngest of his father’s 28 children, Grady joined his church choir at the age of eight. His first professional foray into entertainment]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/grady-champion-makes-a-triumphant-return-with-a-tribute-to-z-z-hill/Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/grady-champion-makes-a-triumphant-return-with-a-tribute-to-z-z-hill/ The release comes almost a year after someone shot a video of Mascis sing]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/j-mascis-stacks-fuzz-onto-tom-petty-classic/Thu, 11 Apr 2019 03:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/j-mascis-stacks-fuzz-onto-tom-petty-classic/ The release comes a year after someone shot a video of Mascis singing the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/j-mascis-stacks-fuzz-onto-rock-and-roll-classic/Thu, 11 Apr 2019 03:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/j-mascis-stacks-fuzz-onto-rock-and-roll-classic/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kenny-wayne-shepherd-delbert-mcclinton-and-ruthie-foster-to-headline-the-34th-anniversary-king-biscuit-blues-festival/Thu, 11 Apr 2019 03:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kenny-wayne-shepherd-delbert-mcclinton-and-ruthie-foster-to-headline-the-34th-anniversary-king-biscuit-blues-festival/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-announces-9th-annual-residency-at-nycs-beacon-theatre/Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-announces-9th-annual-residency-at-nycs-beacon-theatre/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/36th-annual-chicago-blues-festival-lineup-announced/Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/36th-annual-chicago-blues-festival-lineup-announced/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenue-turns-up-the-retro-soul-heat-with-their-second-album-keep-on/Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenue-turns-up-the-retro-soul-heat-with-their-second-album-keep-on/ Following that performance, she toured with Chick Corea, and recorded her debut album, Transformation. After that it was a tour wit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tal-wilkenfeld-breaks-new-ground-with-love-remains/Fri, 05 Apr 2019 19:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tal-wilkenfeld-breaks-new-ground-with-love-remains/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marc-broussard-home-the-dockside-sessions-available-today/Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marc-broussard-home-the-dockside-sessions-available-today/ Made up of Chris Turpin and Stehanie Jean, the duo has caused a gritty shock-wave in their UK homeland as well as on this side of the pond. Their debut album, Chasing Lights is set for release via Thirty Tigers on June 7th. They are currently opening for Blackberry Smoke on their “Break it]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-video-from-ida-mae-chasing-lights/Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-video-from-ida-mae-chasing-lights/ Co-produced by long-time friend and colleague]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/albert-castiglia-readies-release-of-masterpiece/Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/albert-castiglia-readies-release-of-masterpiece/ Julia entitled his new album INSPIRED because he’s very aware of the debt he owes to the musicians who have inspired him. Beyond the blues masters whose records he has learned from, he has been personally touched]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-david-julia-empty-promises/Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-david-julia-empty-promises/ On this particular night, Henry and his group The Funk Apostles were joined by gospel legend B. Slade. Together they perform a nearly 14-minute live version of Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues.” The performance was captured on video by]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-live-video-from-cory-henry-amp-the-funk-apostles-ldquoinner-city-bluesrdquo/Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-live-video-from-cory-henry-amp-the-funk-apostles-ldquoinner-city-bluesrdquo/ Manx and Marriner have nice chemistry. They share vocals and songwriting, even collaborating on one song. There’s lots of blues]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/manx-marriner-mainline-are-hell-bound-for-heaven/Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/manx-marriner-mainline-are-hell-bound-for-heaven/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mike-wheeler-happy-blues/Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mike-wheeler-happy-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-clapton-announces-2019-crossroads-guitar-festival/Sat, 30 Mar 2019 08:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-clapton-announces-2019-crossroads-guitar-festival/ Don’t for one second think this is his first stint in the limelight however. Lee has b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/toby-lee-the-little-ginger-who-could/Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/toby-lee-the-little-ginger-who-could/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-jimbo-mathus-with-the-charley-patton-inspired-alligator-fish/Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-jimbo-mathus-with-the-charley-patton-inspired-alligator-fish/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dave-mason-on-collaborations-the-fall-of-radio-and-love-of-the-tour/Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dave-mason-on-collaborations-the-fall-of-radio-and-love-of-the-tour/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-steven-and-the-disciples-of-soul-to-celebrate-summer-of-sorcery/Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-steven-and-the-disciples-of-soul-to-celebrate-summer-of-sorcery/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/stony-plain-records-sets-may-release-date-for-new-duke-robillard-album-ear-worms/Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/stony-plain-records-sets-may-release-date-for-new-duke-robillard-album-ear-worms/ By the early ‘70s, he was carving out a niche for himself as a power trio bandleader. From 1974’s Bridge of Sighs on was when the seeds of his solo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robin-trower-coming-closer-to-the-day-released-today/Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robin-trower-coming-closer-to-the-day-released-today/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/josh-hyde-leads-us-straight-into-the-soul/Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/josh-hyde-leads-us-straight-into-the-soul/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joseph-morganfield-new-mojo-man/Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joseph-morganfield-new-mojo-man/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-damon-fowler-it-came-out-of-nowhere/Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-damon-fowler-it-came-out-of-nowhere/ His newest offering, Neon Highway Blues hits the streets on Friday, March 15th via Provogue Records. It’s a combination of blues, instrumentals and rock n roll, with some heavy hitting guests including Eric Gales, Lance Lopez, Josh Smith, and Hoey’s own 1]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gary-hoey-brings-son-ian-and-label-mates-along-for-neon-highway-ride/Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gary-hoey-brings-son-ian-and-label-mates-along-for-neon-highway-ride/ Now Neals has hand-selected eight of the finest tra]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eliza-neals-and-the-narcotics-more-than-a-greatest-hits-album/Fri, 08 Mar 2019 21:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eliza-neals-and-the-narcotics-more-than-a-greatest-hits-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/george-benson-pays-tribute-to-chuck-berry-amp-fats-domino-on-lsquowalking-to-new-orleansrsquo/Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/george-benson-pays-tribute-to-chuck-berry-amp-fats-domino-on-lsquowalking-to-new-orleansrsquo/ On May 3rd, 2019, Omnivore Recordings will release The Blues Came Falling Down – Live 1973,an album of previously unh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-blues-hall-of-famer-johnny-shines-the-blues-came-falling-down-from-1973-live/Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-blues-hall-of-famer-johnny-shines-the-blues-came-falling-down-from-1973-live/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dale-watson-son-of-sun/Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dale-watson-son-of-sun/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robin-trower-is-coming-closer-to-the-day/Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robin-trower-is-coming-closer-to-the-day/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/arlen-roth-introduces-us-to-the-telemasters/Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/arlen-roth-introduces-us-to-the-telemasters/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2019-blues-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced/Fri, 01 Mar 2019 18:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2019-blues-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced/ MEMPHIS, Tenn.—It will be quite the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-queen-of-soul-the-count-and-the-uncrowned-queen-of-the-blues-are-among-the-music-royalty-being-welcomed-into-the-blues-hall-of-fame-on-may-8/Fri, 01 Mar 2019 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-queen-of-soul-the-count-and-the-uncrowned-queen-of-the-blues-are-among-the-music-royalty-being-welcomed-into-the-blues-hall-of-fame-on-may-8/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/billy-branch-master-blues-teacher/Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/billy-branch-master-blues-teacher/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-harpdog-brown-one-step-forward/Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-harpdog-brown-one-step-forward/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sugaray-rayford-brings-vintage-soul-vibe-to-new-album-somebody-save-me/Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:56:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sugaray-rayford-brings-vintage-soul-vibe-to-new-album-somebody-save-me/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/garden-jam-music-festival-coming-to-indian-wells-california-april-5th-amp-6th/Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/garden-jam-music-festival-coming-to-indian-wells-california-april-5th-amp-6th/ Scheduled for release March 15th, via Mascot Label Group/Provogue, Hoey steers the 11 tracks of Neon Highway Blues with the confidence and assuredness of a veteran and the freshness of someone who’s still in the process of discovery andrefinement — with the help of famous friends such as Eric Gales, Lance Lopez, Josh Smith a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gary-hoey-has-the-neon-highway-blues/Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gary-hoey-has-the-neon-highway-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-track-from-leo-bud-welch-i-want-to-be-at-the-meeting/Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-track-from-leo-bud-welch-i-want-to-be-at-the-meeting/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/give-10-get-stuff/Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/give-10-get-stuff/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/harpdog-brown-keeps-it-between-the-ditches/Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/harpdog-brown-keeps-it-between-the-ditches/ One could really get lost in New Orleans; lost in reverie, lost in the rhythm and blues, lost in the collective beat of the city.  For Alex Chilton, this was especially true. You see, the commercial success of a #1 hit, The Box Tops’ “The Letter,” was som]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alex-chilton-its-the-singer-not-the-song/Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alex-chilton-its-the-singer-not-the-song/ She might only be hitting her twenties, but long-term fans will know this isn’t Ally&rsq]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-ally-venable-texas-honey/Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-ally-venable-texas-honey/ Fowler has worked with the Stones for over three decades, so he knows a little something about the music. That’s not, however, whe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bernard-fowler-turns-the-rolling-stones-inside-out/Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bernard-fowler-turns-the-rolling-stones-inside-out/ WATCH HERE
New self-titled album set for March 8th release on Innovative Leisure
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Selected previous praise for Nick Waterhouse:
“Think music ain’t what it used to be? Then you haven’t heard Nick Waterhouse.” – GQ
“…unashamedly retro, but fizzes with an energy that retools classic R’n’B as a vibrantly]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/nick-waterhouse-reveals-wreck-the-rod-featuring-danny-trejo-breaking-bad-con-air/Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/nick-waterhouse-reveals-wreck-the-rod-featuring-danny-trejo-breaking-bad-con-air/ Building Ndebwe’s clean water systemWater4Mercy Project Breaks Ground at Ndebwe Village in Dodoma, Tanzania
Ndebwe Village, located in Dodoma district, is a large village of more than 5,000 people and growing. To supply water for such a large community, 18 taps and two water tanks will be installed.
Ndebwe villagers anticipating clean waterMany Africans are dying of thirst. 1.8 billion people]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/american-blues-scene-sponsors-water-for-mercy/Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/american-blues-scene-sponsors-water-for-mercy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-headlines-blue-star-denver-8-benefit-concert/Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:41:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-headlines-blue-star-denver-8-benefit-concert/ Pejak has a beautiful voice, with a hint of smoke and a nice bit of roughness to it. However, it&rsq]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/katarina-pejak-debuts-on-ruf-records-with-roads-that-cross/Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/katarina-pejak-debuts-on-ruf-records-with-roads-that-cross/ The album’s even-dozen tracks feature 11 originals penned by Taylor Scot]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taylor-scott-band-to-release-new-cd-all-we-have/Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:41:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taylor-scott-band-to-release-new-cd-all-we-have/ “These are stories that people are familiar with,” says McConnell, “and they steer the ship in a certain direction, then leave you off at this ocean of possibilities that we didn’t plan on the s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/secondhand-smoke-from-sean-mcconnell-just-released/Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/secondhand-smoke-from-sean-mcconnell-just-released/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-honor-loss-and-celebrate-life-on-new-album/Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-honor-loss-and-celebrate-life-on-new-album/ NOMINATED FOR THREE GRAMMY AWARDS
2019 SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE
WORLDWIDE TOUR DATES CONFIRMED
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM THE TREE OF FORGIVENESS OUT NOW“THIS COUNTRY HAS NEVER NEEDED JOHN PRINE MORE.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES
John Prine is profiled on today’s “CBS This Morning” with host John Dickerson. Watch the full interview HERE.The piece comes in advance of this weekend’s 61st GRAMMY Award]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-prine-nominated-for-three-grammy-awards/Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:32:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-prine-nominated-for-three-grammy-awards/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jp-spars-bma-nomination-and-new-album-produced-by-tab-benoit/Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jp-spars-bma-nomination-and-new-album-produced-by-tab-benoit/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jp-soars-bma-nomination-and-new-album-produced-by-tab-benoit/Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jp-soars-bma-nomination-and-new-album-produced-by-tab-benoit/ “I started out in the ’90s making traditional rockabilly music,”]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kim-lenz-is-slowly-speeding-from-rockabilly-to-americana/Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kim-lenz-is-slowly-speeding-from-rockabilly-to-americana/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/trentons-solid-bronze-to-release-debut-album/Thu, 07 Feb 2019 06:48:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/trentons-solid-bronze-to-release-debut-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/video-premiere-do-right-by-him-from-eric-jerardi/Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/video-premiere-do-right-by-him-from-eric-jerardi/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/vizztone-signs-guitar-master-rick-vito-for-new-album-soulshaker/Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/vizztone-signs-guitar-master-rick-vito-for-new-album-soulshaker/ FLORENCE + THE MACHINE CONFIRM 2019 NORTH AMERICAN DATESHEADLINING GOVERNORS BALL AND FORM ARCOSANTI
Following a history-making North American tour last year, Florence + the Machine return this spring for a run of dates including Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, Boston, Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater and headlining sets at Governors Ball in New York and FORM Arcosanti. Christine & the Queens, Blood Orange, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and Perfume Geni]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/florence-the-machine-confirm-2019-north-american-dates/Tue, 05 Feb 2019 02:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/florence-the-machine-confirm-2019-north-american-dates/ WATCH PERFORMANCES BY JENNY LEWIS,ANDREW BIRD, NICKEL CREEKAND CIROCCO DUNLAP
Live from Here with Chris Thile’s latest episode debuted on Friday, February 1 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA. The show featured guest performances from Jenny Lewis, Andrew Bird, Nickel Creek, Sarah Silverman and Cirocco Dunlap.Listen to the complete episode HERE.
Watch Jenny Lewis’ performance of  &ldqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/live-from-here-with-chris-thiles-latest-episode-debuted-on-february-1st-in-los-angeles/Tue, 05 Feb 2019 02:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/live-from-here-with-chris-thiles-latest-episode-debuted-on-february-1st-in-los-angeles/ More than 200 acts performed in Memphis January 22-26 for a chance to grab top honors at the prestigious IBC Event, which lit up Beale Street and the historic Orpheum Theatre.
1st Place Band WinnerMs. Hy-C & Fresh Start (St. Louis Blues Society)©Ty Randall
1st Place Solo/Duo WinnerJon Shain (Triangle Blues Society)&cop]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-blues-foundations-35th-international-blues-challenge-winners-announced-more-than-200-artists-competed-in-memphis-jan-22-26/Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:36:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-blues-foundations-35th-international-blues-challenge-winners-announced-more-than-200-artists-competed-in-memphis-jan-22-26/ Before forming his own band in 1989, Specter toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe behind Son Seals, The Legendary Blues Band, Hubert Sumlin, Sam Lay, and Steve]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dave-specter-jack-of-all-blues/Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dave-specter-jack-of-all-blues/ Since 2017, cherished Mississippi bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes has been mentoring Farr in the Bentonia Style of the Delta Blues, an obscure style that Holmes learned directly from Henry Stuckey (who taught Skip James among others). In early 2018, Connely teamed up with Canadian producer & acclaimed songwriter Leeroy Stagger to]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-robert-connely-farr-amp-the-rebeltone-boys-ldquohey-mr-devilrdquo/Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-robert-connely-farr-amp-the-rebeltone-boys-ldquohey-mr-devilrdquo/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dr-joe-releases-debut-single-tell-your-mother/Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dr-joe-releases-debut-single-tell-your-mother/ “The group’s otherworldly sound comes from the music of leader Simon Stålhamre, an artist who knew exactly what he wanted when he left school at 15.”—NPR/WXPN “World Café”
“immediately contagious”—Clash
“Quality Swedish folk pop trio led by Simon Stålhamre whose crack]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/small-feets-let-the-guys-down-premieres-via-brooklyn-vegan-sophomore-album-with-psychic-powers/Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/small-feets-let-the-guys-down-premieres-via-brooklyn-vegan-sophomore-album-with-psychic-powers/ WITH GUESTS BAD COMPANY AND CHEAP TRICKRock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees ZZ Top are coming on strong with their 50th Anniversary Texas Bash celebrating a true career milestone with three key performance dates set for three “Texas towns” this May. The band’s 50th anniversary celebration is set to commence May 17 in Dallas at Dos Equis Pavilion, followed by a performance]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-tops-50th-anniversary-texas-bash-set-to-play-dallas-houston-austin-this-may-w-bad-company-cheap-trick-tix-on-sale-21/Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-tops-50th-anniversary-texas-bash-set-to-play-dallas-houston-austin-this-may-w-bad-company-cheap-trick-tix-on-sale-21/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/leyla-mccalla-releasing-one-off-single-on-nolas-special-man-industries/Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/leyla-mccalla-releasing-one-off-single-on-nolas-special-man-industries/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/big-legal-messrsquo-dirty-ms-blues-lp-by-willie-farmer-31-billboard-amp-living-blues-run-spotlights/Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/big-legal-messrsquo-dirty-ms-blues-lp-by-willie-farmer-31-billboard-amp-living-blues-run-spotlights/ Now, Fusco has teamed with Cody Dickinson to release his debut album, John Fusco and the X-Road Riders. The album is due out on February 11th, via Dickinson’s Checkerboard Lounge Records, and features guest artists Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-rolling-thunder-by-john-fusco-and-the-x-road-riders/Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-rolling-thunder-by-john-fusco-and-the-x-road-riders/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hot-tuna-celebrates-50-years/Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:59:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hot-tuna-celebrates-50-years/ Notice a bit of word play already? Good. That’s kind of the point. Carlsson, a Swedish native, met Diaz while attending a music school in the early 1990s. The chemistry was instant. Both are multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, recording engineers, etc. Both wer]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-days-soon-to-serve-up-lsquopop-amp-tacosrsquo/Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:02:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-days-soon-to-serve-up-lsquopop-amp-tacosrsquo/ Mike Ledbetter at the 2018 Bradenton Blues Festival – Photo Marilyn Stringer
It’s with the heaviest my heart has ever been in my 34 years, and the puffiest of eyes that I’m typing this out. Mike Ledbetter was loved by so many. This is for everyone. I hope it’s comprehensible.
First, I’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soulful-blues-star-mike-ledbetter-has-died/Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soulful-blues-star-mike-ledbetter-has-died/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/linsey-alexander-the-hoochie-man/Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:59:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/linsey-alexander-the-hoochie-man/ The Kentucky Headhunters don’t fall into a convenient genre. They’re rock. They’re blues. They’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-kentucky-headhunters-come-out-swingin-live-at-the-ramblin-man-fair/Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-kentucky-headhunters-come-out-swingin-live-at-the-ramblin-man-fair/ On this new release, Mayall maintains that status quo with featured guest artists that include Joe Bonamassa, Larry McCray, Alex Lifeson, Todd Rundgren, Steven Van Zandt, and newest Blu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-its-so-tough-john-mayall-featuring-steven-van-zandt/Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-its-so-tough-john-mayall-featuring-steven-van-zandt/ Bruce Iglauer Photo From His Facebook Page
I love Bob because he brought Chicago musicians and blues fans worldwide closer together by recording blues artists as they sounded live in the South Side and West Side Chicago blue bars that he frequented, and I r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bruce-iglauer-blues-number-one-record-executive-gets-very-personal/Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bruce-iglauer-blues-number-one-record-executive-gets-very-personal/ The Blues Foundation will host its hi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/nominees-for-the-40th-annual-blues-music-awards/Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:20:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/nominees-for-the-40th-annual-blues-music-awards/ BUDDY GUY, BILLY F GIBBONS, BOBBY RUSH, CANDI STATON, AND BEN HARPER ARE AMONG THE DISTINGUISHED, DIVERSE GROUP OF NOMINEES TO BE CELEBRATED AT THE 40th ANNUAL BLUES MUSIC AWARDS
The Blues Foundation will reveal the winners at its gala ceremony in Memphis on May 9.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE BMA & BHOF TICKETSCLICK HERE TO RESERVE SHERATON HOTEL ROOM MEMPHIS, Tenn.— For the 40th year, the Blues Music Awards will present a one-of-a-kind gathering]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/40th-blues-music-award-nominations-announced/Mon, 07 Jan 2019 19:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/40th-blues-music-award-nominations-announced/ Every year it is difficult to cull 400+ blues album releases into a “final” top 20, but THIS year was really tough. I think every one of us who participated in this list had real regret on some of the cuts that were made to our individual]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesmusicfancom-radios-top-20-blues-albums-of-2018/Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesmusicfancom-radios-top-20-blues-albums-of-2018/ 6:00 pm – The official opening of the IBC takes place on the 1st floor of Club 152. International c]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/international-blues-challenge-event-week-highlights/Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:11:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/international-blues-challenge-event-week-highlights/ In March, 2016 lead singer Amy Boone was struck by a car while walking near a parking lot. Several surgeries, hundreds of hours of physical therapy and an eventual move from Austin, Texas to Portland, Oregon followed. Work on The Imperial had already begun, but the band made the decision]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/from-tragedy-to-the-imperial-the-triumphant-return-of-the-delines/Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/from-tragedy-to-the-imperial-the-triumphant-return-of-the-delines/ They’re raw, extremely expressive, and a bit odd. The new]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-song-from-lonesome-shack-past-the-ditch/Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-song-from-lonesome-shack-past-the-ditch/ Burt is a road warrior coming out of Iowa, not normally seen as a blues hotbed. In addition to h]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kevin-burt-puts-heartland-and-soul-into-his-music/Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kevin-burt-puts-heartland-and-soul-into-his-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/from-ashes-to-stax/Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:12:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/from-ashes-to-stax/ Jody Williams Photo: Dan Machnik
Williams recorded with legends including Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Spann and his childhood friend Bo Diddley, as well as under his own name. One of the last and most accomplished practitioners of the golden 1950s era of Chicago blues, Williams was well-kn]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-hall-of-famer-jody-williams-dead-at-83/Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-hall-of-famer-jody-williams-dead-at-83/ The album boasts an impressive and diverse list of guest guitarists, all personal favorites of Mayall’s including Todd Rundgren, Little Steven Van Zandt of The E Street Band, Alex Lifeson from Rush,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-to-release-new-cd-nobody-told-me/Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-to-release-new-cd-nobody-told-me/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-trip-through-shadowland-with-glenn-alexander/Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-trip-through-shadowland-with-glenn-alexander/ Two-time Grammy nominated artist and American blues legend John Primer was the bandleader and guitarist for Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Magic Slim & The Teardrops. He has played and recorded with a who’s who of blues greats including Junior Wells, Gary Clark Jr., Derek Trucks, Johnny Winter, The Rolling Stones and Buddy Guy. Primer’s personal accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award that reflects his countless contributions t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-primer-is-the-real-deal/Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-primer-is-the-real-deal/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rolling-stones-no-filter-us-tour-announced/Fri, 23 Nov 2018 20:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rolling-stones-no-filter-us-tour-announced/ Produced by world renowned blues guitarist Josh Smith, and recorded in Smith’s Flat V Studios, the album includes such stellar musicians as Travis Carlton on bass (Robben Ford, Scott Henderson), Scott Kinsey (Tribal Tech) on keys and Gary Novak (George Benson, Chick Corea) on drums.
Rosenbloom is in good company, but commands center stage with his searing]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-right-about-now-from-seth-rosenbloom/Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-right-about-now-from-seth-rosenbloom/ There are a lo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rich-hope-finds-balance-on-im-all-yours/Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:12:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rich-hope-finds-balance-on-im-all-yours/ John Mellencamp photo: Myrna Suarez – Rev J. Peyton photo: Tyler Zoller
The folk song popularized during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is one of the tracks from Mellencamp’s upcoming album release Other People’s Stu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/reverend-peyton-joins-john-mellencamp-on-eyes-on-the-prize/Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/reverend-peyton-joins-john-mellencamp-on-eyes-on-the-prize/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2019-keeping-the-blues-alive-award-recipients-announced/Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2019-keeping-the-blues-alive-award-recipients-announced/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walker-katz-and-robson-take-us-on-journeys-to-the-heart-of-the-blues/Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walker-katz-and-robson-take-us-on-journeys-to-the-heart-of-the-blues/ The eleven honorees will be feted at the KBA Awards event to be held during the 35th International Blues Challenge taking place in Memphis January 22-26MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On Friday, January 25, 2019, The Blues Foundation will honor 11 individuals and organizations at its Keeping the Blues Alive Awards brunch, taking place at the Doubletree Hotel -Downtow]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-blues-foundation-announces-the-recipients-of-2019s-prestigious-keeping-the-blues-alive-awards/Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-blues-foundation-announces-the-recipients-of-2019s-prestigious-keeping-the-blues-alive-awards/ A computer scientist + blues guitarist + philanthropist = Jim Allchin. Schoolhouse Rock was right: three is still the magic number. And although prime numbers may not be as constructive as part of his current world, that doesn’t mean Jim doesn’t still apply them to everyday life. Nor does it mean he doesn’t still use problem-solving strategies to navigate him through what some may consider unlikely projects by which to do so. One pursu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jim-allchin-is-in-his-prime-blues/Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jim-allchin-is-in-his-prime-blues/ Morin walks a fine line between musical st]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cary-morin-demonstrates-simple-beauty-on-when-i-rise/Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:32:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cary-morin-demonstrates-simple-beauty-on-when-i-rise/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/down-the-white-rabbit-hole-with-jorma-kaukonen/Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/down-the-white-rabbit-hole-with-jorma-kaukonen/ Produced by her Grammy®-winning husband Jim Gaines, Blues & Angels marries Carroll’s husky voice with the undeniable blues talents of guest artists Rocky Athas, Bernard Allison and Johnny Rawls. Sandy is no stranger to blues music, as her songs have]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/video-premiere-sandy-carroll-love-is-a-wonderful-thing/Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/video-premiere-sandy-carroll-love-is-a-wonderful-thing/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/colin-james-has-miles-to-go/Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/colin-james-has-miles-to-go/ Tony Joe White in concert. Photo: ©Chris Dornan
Born July 23rd, 1943, White grew up on a cotton farm, the youngest of seven children. He began his music career by playing a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/swamp-rocker-tony-joe-white-dead-at-75/Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/swamp-rocker-tony-joe-white-dead-at-75/ Ernie Young – Ted Jarrett – Ted Adams – Ernies Record Mart 1955 – courtesy of the Country]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/shake-your-hips-the-excello-records-story/Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/shake-your-hips-the-excello-records-story/ Born and raised in Millen, Georgia Bey sings Southern s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/frank-bey-the-life-times-amp-rebirth-of-a-soul-man/Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/frank-bey-the-life-times-amp-rebirth-of-a-soul-man/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-album-john-akapo-paradise-blues/Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-album-john-akapo-paradise-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-never-before-heard-track-from-henry-townsend-since-youve-come-back-home/Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-never-before-heard-track-from-henry-townsend-since-youve-come-back-home/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jesse-ed-davis-inducted-into-native-american-music-hall-of-fame/Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jesse-ed-davis-inducted-into-native-american-music-hall-of-fame/ 12 new, original songs cover topics from lost love to acknowledgement of the past and from salvation to primal urges. “Your Mama Wants To Do Me (And Your Daddy Wants To Do Me In)” is from the latter category. However, its cleve]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-anthony-gomes-your-mama-wants-to-do-me-and-your-daddy-wants-to-do-me-in/Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-anthony-gomes-your-mama-wants-to-do-me-and-your-daddy-wants-to-do-me-in/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/benefit-concert-for-americana-music-association-amp-blues-foundation-scheduled-for-october-19th/Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/benefit-concert-for-americana-music-association-amp-blues-foundation-scheduled-for-october-19th/ On Friday, October 12th, 2018, Margolin releases a self-titled album via VizzTone, the label he helped create. Bob Margolin contains the bluesman’s interpretations of nine songs he learned direct from the masters back in t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-bob-margolin-head-held-high/Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-bob-margolin-head-held-high/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/austin-texas-nakia-is-a-blues-grifter/Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/austin-texas-nakia-is-a-blues-grifter/ On Miles To Go the multiple award winning singer/guitarist covers nine blues classics by artists including Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Howlin’ Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson and more. There are also two brand new original James tracks. The songs James chose to cover are not your usual re]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-video-colin-james-breaks-down-miles-to-go-song-by-song/Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-video-colin-james-breaks-down-miles-to-go-song-by-song/ Boscoe France photo: Mark McCoy
October 20th, France will be on stage, quite literally in his own backyard. Playing at the first ever Baco]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boscoe-france-to-play-inaugural-blues-festival-in-his-hometown/Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boscoe-france-to-play-inaugural-blues-festival-in-his-hometown/ Prime Blues is the fourth widely distributed blues album from guitarist/singer/songwriter Allchin. Last year’s Decisions drew broad acclaim and stayed on the blues rock album charts for 14 weeks. He comes out again, guns blazing, with 14 original tracks combining blues, rock, and Southern soul.
One may]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/newest-release-from-jim-allchin-is-prime-blues/Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/newest-release-from-jim-allchin-is-prime-blues/ Otis Rush attends the Chicago Blues Festival in 2016. Photo: Marilyn Stringer
Otis Rush, Jr. was born April 29th, 1934 near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Around the age of 14, he moved to Chicago met Muddy Waters, and began playing blues clubs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/west-side-blues-architect-otis-rush-dead-at-84/Sun, 30 Sep 2018 12:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/west-side-blues-architect-otis-rush-dead-at-84/ Poor Until Payday is the group’s second offering on their own Family Owned Records label through Thirty Tigers. The 3-piece group made up of The Rev, his wife Washboard Br]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-reverend-peytons-big-damn-band-is-poor-until-payday/Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-reverend-peytons-big-damn-band-is-poor-until-payday/ A festival of what’s good for the taste buds, ears, and soul, Bacon Blues & Big Stories will take place in Mahr Park at]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/samantha-fish-amp-jonny-lang-headline-bacon-blues-amp-big-stories-festival/Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/samantha-fish-amp-jonny-lang-headline-bacon-blues-amp-big-stories-festival/ Hailing from Essex in England’s south-east Selby picked up the guitar at eight years old. He has dedicated his life to mastering the instru]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/connor-selbys-debut-made-up-my-mind-is-a-fresh-take-on-the-classic-blues-sound/Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/connor-selbys-debut-made-up-my-mind-is-a-fresh-take-on-the-classic-blues-sound/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bitten-by-the-blues-the-alligator-records-story-out-october-30th/Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bitten-by-the-blues-the-alligator-records-story-out-october-30th/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/allman-goldflies-band-goes-pops-in-concert/Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/allman-goldflies-band-goes-pops-in-concert/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ana-popovic-likes-it-on-top/Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ana-popovic-likes-it-on-top/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-hall-of-famer-big-jay-mcneely-dead-at-91/Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-hall-of-famer-big-jay-mcneely-dead-at-91/ Blue & Lonesome Duo is made up of singer/harmonica player Ronnie Owens, of Li’l Ronnie & the Grand Dukes, and singer/guitarist Gordon Harrower, he too of the Grand Dukes, but also of Rattlesnake Shake. The album is just the two of them sing]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blue-amp-lonesome-duorsquos-lsquopacing-the-floorrsquo-is-classic-blues-in-a-sparse-setting/Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:47:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blue-amp-lonesome-duorsquos-lsquopacing-the-floorrsquo-is-classic-blues-in-a-sparse-setting/ &ldqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-eric-bibb-ft-habib-koit-we-dont-care/Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-eric-bibb-ft-habib-koit-we-dont-care/ Grammy-winner Sturgill Simpson closes out the Missouri Lottery Stage on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Roots N Blu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/roots-n-blues-n-bbq-brings-cool-tunes-hot-eats-to-stephens-lake-park-in-columbia-missouri/Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/roots-n-blues-n-bbq-brings-cool-tunes-hot-eats-to-stephens-lake-park-in-columbia-missouri/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mark-hummel-pushes-his-harp-to-the-limit-on-harpbreaker/Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mark-hummel-pushes-his-harp-to-the-limit-on-harpbreaker/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alligator-records-to-release-journeys-to-the-heart-of-the-blues/Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alligator-records-to-release-journeys-to-the-heart-of-the-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/connor-ray-music-set-to-release-new-cd-from-houston-based-duo-dry-johnson/Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/connor-ray-music-set-to-release-new-cd-from-houston-based-duo-dry-johnson/ Collier has been playing since she too]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/vanessa-colliers-honey-up-is-golden/Fri, 07 Sep 2018 23:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/vanessa-colliers-honey-up-is-golden/ The ballsy, multiple genre Down in the Dirt first drew our attention to the elder of the Fish sisters. Amanda’s powerhouse vocals (imagine the viva voce child of Koko Taylor and Otis Rush) combined with her multi-instrumental talents, and vivid true-life lyrics launched her directly into o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sophomore-album-from-amanda-fish-is-free/Thu, 06 Sep 2018 22:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sophomore-album-from-amanda-fish-is-free/ Lebo is a singer with a powerful voice. It has a bluesy bravado, but also a feminine character, both of which work nicely together. Here, she tears through seven songs, performing each and every one to perfe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lawrence-lebos-old-school-girl-is-catchy-and-nicely-done/Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lawrence-lebos-old-school-girl-is-catchy-and-nicely-done/ This year’s symposium is being co-hosted by the B.B. King Museum and the B.B. King Recording Studio. This year’s theme is “Suffering Songs: The Blues Identity of Native & African American People and Their Struggles.” Dr. James Johnson, Musicologist, University of Pittsburg and Co-]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/4th-annual-bb-king-symposium-september-6th/Mon, 03 Sep 2018 18:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/4th-annual-bb-king-symposium-september-6th/ Every piece is a cauldron where experience, technique, love, and longing are mixed with… angst? Desire? Whimsy? Joy? As a whole, such an exhibit can leave visitors spent, yet still hold them enthralled.
Imagine if you will an exhibit that is a perfect embodi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/an-exhibition-ndash-lsquomedieval-to-metal-the-art-amp-evolution-of-the-guitarrsquo/Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:47:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/an-exhibition-ndash-lsquomedieval-to-metal-the-art-amp-evolution-of-the-guitarrsquo/ Today, it’s one of the largest blues events in America. Thousands of g]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tampa-bay-blues-festival-25-years-of-blues-by-the-bay/Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tampa-bay-blues-festival-25-years-of-blues-by-the-bay/ Ethan Lake Photo: Todd Lake
Lake is the new kid in town. A 16-year-old guitarist/singer hailing from Baltimore who chose the blues path, and he’s shaking things up. Like many of a certain age, Lake was introduced to the blues via bands like the Rolling]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/theres-a-new-guitar-slinger-in-town-and-his-name-is-ethan-lake/Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/theres-a-new-guitar-slinger-in-town-and-his-name-is-ethan-lake/ The post Enter the King Biscuit Blues Festival Giveaway – Win VIP Passes, Cruise Tickets, Blues Tees and More! appeared first on American Blues Scene.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/enter-the-king-biscuit-blues-festival-giveaway-win-vip-passes-cruise-tickets-blues-tees-and-more/Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/enter-the-king-biscuit-blues-festival-giveaway-win-vip-passes-cruise-tickets-blues-tees-and-more/ If Wild Heart sounds familiar, it should. It’s the title of the critically acclaimed 2015 album from Samantha Fish. Just so you’re up to speed, on top of her feverish tour schedule, her relocation from the Midwest to NOLA,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/louisiana-bluesman-jonathon-long-debuts-on-wild-heart-records/Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/louisiana-bluesman-jonathon-long-debuts-on-wild-heart-records/ Ian Saddler knew the record industry was a tough business, but he wasn’t quite prepared for all of the termite poop.
Saddler, who is somehow simultaneously shaggy and dapper in a uniquely British way, is the person behind Ace Records’ “By the Bayou,” series, which brilliantly compiles historical Louisiana blues. There are 20 editions to date, all personally curated by Saddler, a retired editor and avid record-collecting Englishman wh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ian-saddler-and-building-ace-records-by-the-bayou/Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ian-saddler-and-building-ace-records-by-the-bayou/ And Lynn]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/inspired-trudy-lynn-lifts-us-up-with-blues-keep-knockin/Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/inspired-trudy-lynn-lifts-us-up-with-blues-keep-knockin/ Dickey Betts, a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band has postponed three upcoming performance dates due to what his doctors have described as a mild stroke.
The following statement is posted on Betts’ website:
“Citing health concerns, Dickey Betts has been forced to postpone the next three dates that he was scheduled to perform on August 28 at the Great New York State Fair in Syracuse, NY; August 30 at the Toyota Oakdale Theat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dickey-betts-postpones-dates-due-to-mild-stroke/Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dickey-betts-postpones-dates-due-to-mild-stroke/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/steve-krase-bands-just-waitin-is-a-fun-tour-through-blues-rockabilly-and-more/Sun, 26 Aug 2018 14:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/steve-krase-bands-just-waitin-is-a-fun-tour-through-blues-rockabilly-and-more/ Cedric is the grandson of legendary blues musician R.L. Burnside, and the son of drummer Calvin Jackson. He still lives close to the Holly Springs, Mississippi home where he was raised by his grandfather, and carries the torch of bringing Hill C]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-of-hard-to-stay-cool-from-cedric-burnside/Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-of-hard-to-stay-cool-from-cedric-burnside/ Hailed as a “songwriter’s songwriter,” David Olney is a Nashville founding father of Americana music.  He’s been around, having spent over 30 years involved with music in various incarnations. During those many years Olney has worked as an actor, poet, and currently, host of the weekly You Never Know streamcast. As a solo artist, he has released over 20 albums and his songs have been covered by the likes of Emmylou Har]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-this-side-or-the-other-david-olney/Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-this-side-or-the-other-david-olney/ The Eighth Annual Call and Response Blues Symposium at the 33rd annual King Biscuit Blues FestivalSaturday, October 6, 2018Malco Theater on Cherry St., Helena, Arkansas10:45 to 1:00 p.m.
Sunshine Sonny Payne was the blues legend who was the uncle to blues royalty for more than 70 years on KFFA’s King Biscuit Time radio show until his passing last year. Join two blues journalism and preservation legends, Roger Stolle and Don Wilcock, as the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-eighth-annual-call-and-response-blues-symposium-at-the-33rd-annual-king-biscuit-blues-festival/Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-eighth-annual-call-and-response-blues-symposium-at-the-33rd-annual-king-biscuit-blues-festival/ The announcement of his passing came from long-time family friend Kenny Neal via Facebook post.
It saddens me to say, Lazy Lester passed just a short time ago peacefully at his home. He had a full life and will be remembered by so many. Memorial arrangements will follow. Condolences to his family.
According his friend Dawayne Gilley, Lester]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-hall-of-famer-lazy-lester-dead-at-85/Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-hall-of-famer-lazy-lester-dead-at-85/ ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE
A Benefit Concert forThe Americana Music Association & The Blues Foundationat The Ace Theatre in Los Angeleson Friday, October 19
Stellar lineup to feature Americana, roots rock and blues stars includingJohn Prine, Bob Weir, Lucinda Williams, Lee Ann Womack, Shemekia Copeland, Doyle Bramhall II, Larkin Poe, Joe Louis Walker, Tash Neal and Surprise Guests PURCHASE TICKETS TO BENEFIT DONATE TO THE BLUES FOUNDATIONAugust 20, 2018&ndash]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/benefit-1019-across-the-great-divide-feat-john-prine-bob-weir-joe-louis-walker-amp-more/Wed, 22 Aug 2018 03:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/benefit-1019-across-the-great-divide-feat-john-prine-bob-weir-joe-louis-walker-amp-more/ ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE
A Benefit Concert forThe Americana Music Association & The Blues Foundationat The Ace Theatre in Los Angeleson Friday, October 19
Stellar lineup to feature Americana, roots rock and blues stars includingJohn Prine, Bob Weir, Lucinda Williams, Lee Ann Womack, Shemekia Copeland, Doyle Bramhall II, Larkin Poe, Joe Louis Walker, Tash Neal and Surprise Guests PURCHASE TICKETS TO BENEFIT DONATE TO THE BLUES FOUNDATIONAugust 20, 2018&ndash]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/benefit-1019-across-the-great-divide/Wed, 22 Aug 2018 03:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/benefit-1019-across-the-great-divide/ Holmes is regarded as the last of the Bentonia, Mississippi bluesmen, and has been mentoring Farr in this all-but-lost art form for t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jimmy-duck-holmes-protege-robert-connely-farr-brings-us-dirty-south-blues/Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jimmy-duck-holmes-protege-robert-connely-farr-brings-us-dirty-south-blues/ “Live From The 805 is a milestone live celebration of twenty years of rocking the blues for Alastair Greene]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-down-to-memphis-by-alastair-greene/Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-down-to-memphis-by-alastair-greene/ Sarah French begins her biography of Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne for Stony Plain Records by saying he is hailed as “an artist bringing the piano back to the front ranks of contemporary blues…” and that he “is called ‘Blues Boss’ for a reason.&rd]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-song-kenny-ldquoblues-bossrdquo-wayne-ndash-ldquostart-rockinrdquo/Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-song-kenny-ldquoblues-bossrdquo-wayne-ndash-ldquostart-rockinrdquo/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/americas-child-shemekia-copeland-talks-about-her-new-album/Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/americas-child-shemekia-copeland-talks-about-her-new-album/ Now poised to release her first album in five years, Barnett brings some Southern soul to Strange Conversation. Scheduled for release on September 21st, via the Thirty Tigers label, Strange Conversation places the vocalist]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-mandy-barnett-strange-conversation/Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-mandy-barnett-strange-conversation/ With a foreword by Grace Slick and an afterword by Jack Casady, the book is an account with Jorma writing naturally what was in his heart and mind. It is a wonderful combination of personal and cultu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jorma-kaukonen-and-jack-casady-hot-tuna-tour-celebrating-publication-of-jormas-memoirs-been-so-long-my-life-and-music/Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jorma-kaukonen-and-jack-casady-hot-tuna-tour-celebrating-publication-of-jormas-memoirs-been-so-long-my-life-and-music/ Amidst the breakdo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/aretha-franklins-greatest-performances/Fri, 17 Aug 2018 02:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/aretha-franklins-greatest-performances/ Royalty and Presidents were among her biggest fans and she sang at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. In 2005, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony. Franklin earned 18 Grammy Awards and the Recording Academy’s Grammy Legend Award. She also]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-dead-at-76/Fri, 17 Aug 2018 01:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-dead-at-76/ Artists who bill themselves as guitarists, perhaps unsurprisingly, tend to focus on the guitar. It usua]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/matty-t-wall-shows-all-sides-on-sidewinder/Wed, 15 Aug 2018 23:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/matty-t-wall-shows-all-sides-on-sidewinder/ Minnie Marks – @minniemarksofficialSince 1994, Minnie Marks has been playing some of the meanest slide blues, roots, and rock and roll around.
Hailing from Cresc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-underrated-female-blues-musicians-you-need-to-be-following/Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-underrated-female-blues-musicians-you-need-to-be-following/ Walker’s voice jumps out at you. It’s raspy, not unlike contemporary Gibbons and all-the-time Waits. Over the course of the album, Walker explores th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/wily-bo-walker-weaves-jazz-throughout-almost-transparent-blues/Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/wily-bo-walker-weaves-jazz-throughout-almost-transparent-blues/ Her latest offering, America’s Child, via Alligator Records sees Copeland expand her Americanness even f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/shemekia-copeland-is-americas-child/Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/shemekia-copeland-is-americas-child/ The 76-year-old legend of soul has battled health issues in recent years including a reported 2010 diagnosis of cancer. A report by BET noted that “Franklin has been battling numerous health problems for years and had to cancel a series of concerts last summer citing ‘doctor’s orders. Her latest performance was on November 2 of last year]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-is-gravely-ill/Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-is-gravely-ill/ Formerly sharecropper’s quarters and essentially a one-room “house” in a cotton field, it has metamorphosed into something far bigger, far grander than its appearance would suggest. Like Delta musicians Lit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quintessential-juke-joint-po-monkeys-contents-to-be-auctioned-off/Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quintessential-juke-joint-po-monkeys-contents-to-be-auctioned-off/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/monster-truck-revs-into-their-10th-year-with-a-new-album-and-european-tour/Wed, 08 Aug 2018 22:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/monster-truck-revs-into-their-10th-year-with-a-new-album-and-european-tour/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/author-filmmaker-robert-gordon-is-a-jack-of-all-blues/Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/author-filmmaker-robert-gordon-is-a-jack-of-all-blues/ Boz Scaggs. The name may be a byword for jazz fusion. Or “blue-eyed soul.” Or blues. Or R&B. But to the trained ear, it is all of these forces that converge in such a way to make Boz Scaggs: a man imbued with all the subtle nuances that mean everything to his loyal listeners. He and his guitar started in the folk-blues tradition, and we seem to see Boz circling back to the substratum of his craft as he draws inspiration from his earliest radio heroes. That i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/in-top-form-boz-scaggs-draws-inspiration-from-his-early-radio-heroes/Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/in-top-form-boz-scaggs-draws-inspiration-from-his-early-radio-heroes/ First off, don’t panic, The Hawks are alive, well, and still touring. The Blues Warriors is a different breed of music is all.
“This band is actu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mark-wenner-brings-us-his-blues-warriors/Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mark-wenner-brings-us-his-blues-warriors/ A Woman Rules t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/whitney-shay-professes-a-woman-rules-the-world/Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/whitney-shay-professes-a-woman-rules-the-world/ But a personal and less popular theory is that expectations are the real challenge of a second album. If a band deviates too far from the sound of the first album—especially a successful one—]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-record-companys-all-of-this-life-is-solid/Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-record-companys-all-of-this-life-is-solid/ In the world of guitars, those that are coveted most by players are the custom-made instruments. Even more revered and sought after are those instruments that are entirely made by hand. Each of these is as much a work of art as it is a working instrument. In this realm, the name Benedetto represents the pinnacle of handmade archtop guitars.
So, to be able to attend a lecture this past Sunday afternoon with Howard Paul, Pres]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/guitars-through-the-eyes-of-howard-paul-and-robert-benedetto/Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/guitars-through-the-eyes-of-howard-paul-and-robert-benedetto/ (L-R) Jonny Lang & Buddy Guy from 2016 – Photo from Jonny Lan]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guy-amp-jonny-lang-play-ldquothe-caprdquo/Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guy-amp-jonny-lang-play-ldquothe-caprdquo/ Confessin’ The Blues collects the greatest bluesmen ever and provides a perfect study of the genre. The tracks on the various formats of the release have been chosen by the Rolling Stones in collaboration with BMG and Universal. The sets are due out from BMG on Nov]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-rolling-stones-lend-a-hand-gathering-tracks-by-blues-pioneers-on-confessin-the-blues/Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-rolling-stones-lend-a-hand-gathering-tracks-by-blues-pioneers-on-confessin-the-blues/ Redemption features 12 new songs including the title track which rock and roll icon Dion DiMucci lends a hand on. They are the result of an awaking and rebirth that Bonamassa is in the midst of. He exp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-bonamassa-out-with-redemption-in-september/Tue, 31 Jul 2018 01:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-bonamassa-out-with-redemption-in-september/ We were fortunate enough to receive an advance copy from]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rev-jimmie-smith-plays-jimmy-smith-live-in-music-city/Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rev-jimmie-smith-plays-jimmy-smith-live-in-music-city/ Released July 13th on his own FHQ Records label, Dyna-Mite is a medley of all things great about New Orleans music. Cleary brings blues, soul]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-release-from-jon-cleary-is-dyna-mite/Sun, 29 Jul 2018 17:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-release-from-jon-cleary-is-dyna-mite/ Chuck Berry playing his Kay Thin Twin guitar
Throughout his long career the granddaddy of rock ‘n’ roll was renowned for playing Gibson guita]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-guitars-did-chuck-berry-play/Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-guitars-did-chuck-berry-play/ What makes Johnson’s music worth its salt is that it’s honest, and it’s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/video-premiere-straitjacket-by-jeremiah-johnson/Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/video-premiere-straitjacket-by-jeremiah-johnson/ It was a cathartic, holy shit, Jesus is back in Chicago moment. With a child’s giggle and some pre-show t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/crystal-shawanda-breaks-into-the-blues-with-voodoo-woman/Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/crystal-shawanda-breaks-into-the-blues-with-voodoo-woman/ Ever evolving, Sicilia integrates down-to-the-roots inspirations seamlessly within the blues. It’s long been her trademark style, as we always say, “If]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-video-gina-sicilia-ready-for-love/Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-video-gina-sicilia-ready-for-love/ Just to be perfectly clear, this album is m]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-cliftons-nightlife-is-raw-and-powerful/Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-cliftons-nightlife-is-raw-and-powerful/ Sometimes the Blues Got Me is seventeen tracks of true Chicago blues. Eleven of the songs are originals, and the s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breezy-rodio-declares-sometimes-the-blues-got-me/Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breezy-rodio-declares-sometimes-the-blues-got-me/ The album, featuring Eric Gales, and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, was recorded, produced, mixe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sebastian-lane-talks-about-his-debut-album-working-with-eric-gales-and-his-grandfather-jimmy-rogers/Sat, 21 Jul 2018 22:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sebastian-lane-talks-about-his-debut-album-working-with-eric-gales-and-his-grandfather-jimmy-rogers/ The album’s 11 tracks are a mix of Gibbons’ original tunes along with covers of classics including Muddy Waters‘ “Standing Around Crying” and “Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” along with Bo Diddley favorites as well with &]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/billy-f-gibbons-solo-album-the-big-bad-blues-coming-in-september/Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/billy-f-gibbons-solo-album-the-big-bad-blues-coming-in-september/ A soulful powerhouse vocalist, Andersen has built a formidable following the old fashioned way. He tours worldwide and lets the converted audiences and his devotees spread his reputation through word of mouth. His methods have unquestionably paid off. Andersen holds nine Maple Blue]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-video-matt-andersen-coal-mining-blues/Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-video-matt-andersen-coal-mining-blues/ Boz Scaggs has always added a touch of class to whatever he does whether that be performing, recording, or producing. He conjures up drama when he sings and his delivery begs us to join him on his journey. And let us not forget that he can play intensely emotive and nimble guitar lines seemingly effortlessly.
Listening to the “trilogy” as most refer to it, it is immediately apparent that Scaggs is at ease and enjoying himself tremendously.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boz-scaggs-gives-us-masterful-out-of-the-blues/Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boz-scaggs-gives-us-masterful-out-of-the-blues/ Formed in 2012, the band’s current lineup consists of twin brothers Josh (vocals) and Jake (guitar) Kiszka, their younger brother Sam (bass/keys), and best friend Danny Wagner (drums).
It’s important to note that in the last year alone, Greta Va]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/greta-van-fleet-releases-new-single-when-the-curtain-falls/Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/greta-van-fleet-releases-new-single-when-the-curtain-falls/ Since his time with Buddy began in 2015 Chris Bynum has traveled the world with the blues master and his black and white polka dot Strat, playing all kinds of gigs in all sorts of places but it was Buddy’s two sets at Byron Bay Bluesfest in 2017 that Bynum remembers as his favorites.
“Byron Bay Bluesfest was a really great gig, and that’s because it was such a great festival. Of all the festivals]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-day-in-the-life-of-buddy-guys-guitar-tech-part-two/Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-day-in-the-life-of-buddy-guys-guitar-tech-part-two/ “We named it after the Rory Gallagher song, which I also cover on the album,” Sky says. “Rory is one of my favorite players. He has a sp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/vanja-sky-debuts-on-ruf-records-with-bad-penny/Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/vanja-sky-debuts-on-ruf-records-with-bad-penny/ The label, which was founded in 1950 by brothers Phil and Leonard Chess played a huge role in the musical revolution of the mid-20th century. Not only was the label home to artists such as Etta James, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Little Walter, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, it helped to shape the future of rock and roll by inspiring The Rolling Stones, L]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ten-essential-chess-records-albums/Sat, 14 Jul 2018 19:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ten-essential-chess-records-albums/ On September 14th Raisin’ Music Records will release Chicago Plays the Stones, a project that sees Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards join numerous Chicago blues artists to celebrate]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chicago-blues-greats-join-mick-jagger-and-keith-richards-on-chicago-plays-the-stones/Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chicago-blues-greats-join-mick-jagger-and-keith-richards-on-chicago-plays-the-stones/ Born Fread Eugene Martin in McComb, Mississippi, King has been playing guitar since he could hold one. Taught the Delta blues style by his father, he hopped a train for New Orleans at age 14, where he began mixing his sound with the likes of Slim Harpo and Champion Jac]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-freddie-king-serves-up-some-lsquofried-rice-amp-chickenrsquo/Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-freddie-king-serves-up-some-lsquofried-rice-amp-chickenrsquo/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-lucky-losers-triumph-with-blind-spot/Fri, 13 Jul 2018 01:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-lucky-losers-triumph-with-blind-spot/ Something New bridges the gap between the Pacific Northwest and New Orleans. Sound like a stretch? It did to us too, until we pushed play.
The very first track, “Scenic]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/michael-kaeshammer-brings-us-something-new/Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/michael-kaeshammer-brings-us-something-new/ White gained world-wide fame 50 years ago with a pair of songs he penned. “Polk Salad Annie,” was a hit for both him and Elvis, while “Rainy Night in Georgia,” was a ru]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-track-from-tony-joe-white-boom-boom/Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-track-from-tony-joe-white-boom-boom/ Reprise Records will release a career spanning 60 track box set of Tom Petty material on September 28th. An American Treasure will feature previously unreleased recordings, alternate versions of favorite songs, rarities, live performances and more. This will be the first release of music by Tom Petty material since his death in October of 2017.
The previously unreleased 1982 recording “Keep A Little Soul” i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/career-spanning-tom-petty-box-set-coming-in-september/Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/career-spanning-tom-petty-box-set-coming-in-september/ Thank you for all your support and your help in spreading the word will be much appr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-streams-launched/Wed, 11 Jul 2018 02:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-streams-launched/ Thank you for all your support and your help in spreading the word will be much appreciated!!]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-stream-starting-saturday-july-14/Wed, 11 Jul 2018 02:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-stream-starting-saturday-july-14/ Thank you for all your support and your help in spreading the word will be much appreciated!!
Want]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-stream-launched-july-14/Wed, 11 Jul 2018 02:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-stream-launched-july-14/ Yet in death, he has become the blues messiah. Blues guitarist]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-devil-didnt-make-him-do-it-debunking-the-robert-johnson-myth/Wed, 11 Jul 2018 02:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-devil-didnt-make-him-do-it-debunking-the-robert-johnson-myth/ Bishop couldn’t have put together a better group if they’d been handed down from heaven on a silver platter. Elvin is Rock and Roll and Blues Hall of Fame inductee who first came to light with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band ove]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elvin-bishops-big-fun-trio-something-smells-funky-round-here/Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elvin-bishops-big-fun-trio-something-smells-funky-round-here/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/johnny-winter-animated-video-illustrated-man/Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/johnny-winter-animated-video-illustrated-man/ For the past two and a half years Chris Bynum has been living every guitar techs dream, working alongside blues guitar legend, Buddy Guy.
Born and raised in Texas, Bynum’s love of music was ignited by an all-star New Year’s Eve concert in Houston that saw Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Leon Russell take to the stage. Country music quickly became his go to, and it wasn’t until he had left]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-day-in-the-life-of-buddy-guys-guitar-tech-part-one/Tue, 10 Jul 2018 05:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-day-in-the-life-of-buddy-guys-guitar-tech-part-one/ Early on Neville flourished as a member of the Meters, and later, the Neville Brothers. Both groups had a profound impact on funk, jazz, soul, and rock that continues to this]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/song-preview-cyril-neville-ndash-ldquonew-orleans-cookinrdquo/Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/song-preview-cyril-neville-ndash-ldquonew-orleans-cookinrdquo/ Declan Patrick MacManus, aka, Elvis Costello has revealed he has cancer as cancels his remaining European tour dates. After his doctor had advised him to rest and take a break from touring and having a go at continuing, he canceled the remaining 6 dates of his current European tour on medical grounds.
Costello himself says, “Six weeks ago my specialist called me and said, ‘You should start playing the Lotto.’ He had rarely, if ever, seen such]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elvis-costello-cancels-tour-dates-following-tumor-removal/Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elvis-costello-cancels-tour-dates-following-tumor-removal/ Charting at #15, it’s the highest chart position of Coltrane’s career, and his biggest opening week sales. Recorded by Trane’s Cl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-coltrane-scores-first-ever-uk-top-20-album/Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-coltrane-scores-first-ever-uk-top-20-album/ The operative word in the group’s name is fun. These guys are legitimately having a good time. One can hear it through their music, and feel it in the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-track-elvin-bishops-big-fun-trio-another-mule/Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-track-elvin-bishops-big-fun-trio-another-mule/ The East Coast has been wrapped in a heat wave that just won’t quit. In Florida, this is complicated by the rainy season where there are showers almost every day throughout the state.
The weather almost put a kibosh on the planned 4th of July celebration in Apopka, Florida. Due to hit the stage at 6 PM, the Tommy Z Band couldn’t even begin placing their equipment onstage until after 5 PM, when the rain had moved out, and the stage became somewhat dry again.
As]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tommy-z-celebrates-4th-of-july-with-blues-in-apopka/Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tommy-z-celebrates-4th-of-july-with-blues-in-apopka/ A pilgrimage to New Orleans, and a visit to the resting place of Marie Laveau inspired Neals to write a contemporary blues party song. But it bends more genres than can be counted on one hand. &]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-eliza-neals-single-love-dr-love/Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-eliza-neals-single-love-dr-love/ Brown was on a mission to mine the genre of the blues. He dug deep into the crevices and crannies, and what he found there inspired this gem of a record. Reme]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sugar-brown-declares-its-a-blues-world/Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sugar-brown-declares-its-a-blues-world/ Vanessa Collier is driven. She wants the best she can be from herself and she wants to give audiences the best she has to offer. She’s already been nominated for three Blues Music Awards and a Blues Blast nomination too. Her music comfortably blends elements of rock, funk, soul, and blues into winning performances that showcase her powerful vocals as well.
In a recent interview with American Blues Scene, Buddy Guy said, “There’s a young lady [Vanessa Collier]]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-vanessa-collier-the-fault-line/Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-vanessa-collier-the-fault-line/ We all know the story of how at age 12, Bonamassa was opening for the late, great]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-bonamassa-explores-his-uk-influences-on-british-blues-explosion-live/Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-bonamassa-explores-his-uk-influences-on-british-blues-explosion-live/ What follows is our list of Rolling Stones albums that the music lover and devoted connoisseur alike should not be without. Of course, there will be tho]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-must-have-rolling-stones-albums/Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-must-have-rolling-stones-albums/ Sometimes it made their name easier to pronounce. Others may have a name describing a physical feature or playing style. Still others do so for religious regions, or to provide some anonymity.
We’ve gathered 30 blues men and women who go by different names than those they were born with. We]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-surprising-real-names-of-30-famous-blues-artists/Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-surprising-real-names-of-30-famous-blues-artists/ CCR’s canon has become a staple in the Great American Songbook. Songs like “Bad Moon Rising,” &ldqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/creedence-clearwater-revival-50th-anniversary-kicks-off-with-first-ever-video-for-fortunate-son/Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/creedence-clearwater-revival-50th-anniversary-kicks-off-with-first-ever-video-for-fortunate-son/ 1. Stewart & Axton Started the Label Because They Were Unsatisf]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-stax-records/Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-stax-records/ As one might gather from Soars’ diverse set of influences, the album covers a lot of ground stylistically. It kick]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jp-soars-is-southbound-i-95/Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jp-soars-is-southbound-i-95/ The stars have finally aligned for Derek Trucks as he hits the road with wife Susan  Tedeschi Friday, June 29th, on their ninth “Wheels of Soul” summer tour with the 12-piece behemoth The Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Derek was obviously so glad to have his keyboardist Kofi Burbridge back on the road with the band. “Kofi’s good, man. Yesterday we played in Telluride, and it was a year to the day from his heart surgery. We are really grateful to have Kof]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-in-tall-clover/Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-in-tall-clover/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-duality-explored-on-spencer-mackenzies-cold-november/Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-duality-explored-on-spencer-mackenzies-cold-november/ The young student of the blues honed his skills on the harmonica and guitar by]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-walter-the-wild-harmonica-genius-who-changed-the-world-and-died-tragically-young/Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-walter-the-wild-harmonica-genius-who-changed-the-world-and-died-tragically-young/ Drummer Vincent Paul Abbott, aka Vincent Paul, has passed away. Paul was 54 years old.   As of this writing, the cause of death has not been made public. A post on the official Pantera Facebook page reads:
Vincent Paul Abbott aka Vinnie Paul has passed away. Paul is best known for his work as the drummer in the bands Pantera and Hellyeah. No further details are available at this time. The family requests you please respect their privacy during this time.
Paul co-]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/pantera-damageplan-hellyeah-drummer-vinnie-paul-dead-at-54/Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/pantera-damageplan-hellyeah-drummer-vinnie-paul-dead-at-54/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/courtney-barnett-tell-me-how-you-really-feel/Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/courtney-barnett-tell-me-how-you-really-feel/ Preparing to celebrate the home going of my husband, The Legendary Lil’ Howlin Wolf. He transitioned out of this world and crossed over to his new home at 5:00 a.m. this morning.
Lil’ Howlin’ Wolf Promotional Photo courtesy of Diane Sanders
Sanders was born July]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lil-howlin-wolf-dead-at-87/Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lil-howlin-wolf-dead-at-87/ And for those reasons, dear friends, I offer up this first ever installment of “Bands You’ll Like” to co]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bands-youll-like-phish/Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bands-youll-like-phish/ Like any charitable arts organization, The Blues Foundation asks board members for some combination of time, talent, and financial support commensurate with their personal re]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-foundation-board-of-directors-seeks-nominees-for-at-large-positions/Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-foundation-board-of-directors-seeks-nominees-for-at-large-positions/ The self-released Believe is a dozen tracks that conjure a profusion of musical genres.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-keeshea-pratt-band-will-make-you-believe/Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-keeshea-pratt-band-will-make-you-believe/ Green’s voice bares a resemblance to Muddy Waters in tone, but it has a sweetness and versatility that Muddy never developed. Green can flat-out sing in a way none]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/debut-from-russ-green-is-windy-city-soul/Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/debut-from-russ-green-is-windy-city-soul/ Two of the greatest exponents of boogie-woogie piano currently working in the field will team up later this month for two special concerts that are sure to delight connoisseurs of the genre. “Boogie” Bob Baldori and Arthur Migliazza, known when they work together as the Boogie Kings, will reprise selections from their widely acclaimed off-Broadway production Boogie Stomp! at the Summer Solstice Jazz Festival in do]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boogie-kings-perform-two-special-shows-of-boogie-stomp/Sat, 16 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boogie-kings-perform-two-special-shows-of-boogie-stomp/ Well they say when it rains it pours…i was just told that my uncle Matt Guitar Murphy passed away last night. I can’t feel a freaking thing in my body now but I must stay strong cause he was a strong man that lived a long long fruitful life that poured his heart out in every gui]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/Sat, 16 Jun 2018 05:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-delta-saints-deliver-the-goods-live-from-the-ab/Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-delta-saints-deliver-the-goods-live-from-the-ab/ The BluesBones hail from Belgium, a country so in love with blues music that they support over two dozen roots and blues festivals every year. The band tours all over Europe, and if the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-bluesbones-chasing-shadows-and-capturing-fans/Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-bluesbones-chasing-shadows-and-capturing-fans/ Keith with his grandfather, Willie Dixon Photo: Mary Katherine Aldin
Brant Buckley:
Could you talk about the Blues Heaven Foundation? What]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brant-buckley-interviews-blues-guardian-keith-dixon-nelson/Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brant-buckley-interviews-blues-guardian-keith-dixon-nelson/ Here are twelve of those women. These blueswomen paved the way for the musicians of today, or currently carry on the torch, while most likely intimidating the living hell out of their male counterparts.
1. Sister Rosetta TharpeSister Rosetta Tharpe, also referred to as the “Godmother of Rock and Roll,” is one of]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/12-women-who-changed-the-blues/Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/12-women-who-changed-the-blues/ Bob Corritore is one of the most active and highly regarded blues harmonica players on the scene today. His style passionately carries forward the old school style of playing that Corritore learned as a young man directly from many of original pioneers of Chicago Blues.
Born in Chicago, Bo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-bob-corritore-amp-friends-ldquowillie-maerdquo/Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-bob-corritore-amp-friends-ldquowillie-maerdquo/ Starseeds is organic. There’s no pretense or ulterior motives. The album sounds classic and timeless in a very natural way. Songs unfold and Powers’ voice cuts through the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kerri-powers-shares-her-essence-on-starseeds/Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kerri-powers-shares-her-essence-on-starseeds/ Cauthen is describing his latest EP, Have Mercy, scheduled for release on June 22nd, via Lightning Rod Records. Building off the success his breakout debut M]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/have-mercy-the-gospel-according-to-paul-cauthen/Sat, 09 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/have-mercy-the-gospel-according-to-paul-cauthen/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-sheepdogs-are-changing-colours/Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-sheepdogs-are-changing-colours/ Eddy Clearwater in his Skokie, Illinois back yard. Photo: ©Steven I Wolf
“Blues For Breakfast,” is a song penned by Clearwater for his 1980 album, The Chief. The charity event of the same]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eddy-clearwater-to-be-honored-during-chicago-blues-festival/Thu, 07 Jun 2018 23:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eddy-clearwater-to-be-honored-during-chicago-blues-festival/ The symposium will be moderated by Dr. Dan Ivankovich and participants will include:
Matt Marshall – CEO of Bluescentric.com, the shop for Blues Soul Rock n RollKate Moss – Album Cover DesignerScottt “Hambone” Hammer – Host of Hambone’s Blues Party on WDCBLynne Jordan – Chicago Blues Artist
Festivities begin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-today-symposium-at-buddy-guys-legends-june-7th/Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-today-symposium-at-buddy-guys-legends-june-7th/ Price first attracted national attention in the mid-1970s during his three-year collaboration with blues guitarist Roy Buchanan. Since that time he’s released no fewer that 15 albums, CDs, and DVDs. His efforts have won him a P]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-song-billy-price-39-steps/Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-song-billy-price-39-steps/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/terry-abrahamson-witness-to-history/Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/terry-abrahamson-witness-to-history/ McKinnon has taken a lot from garage rock, both historic and contemporary. You hear a lot of Black Keys-esque sounds and grooves throughout the album but he also reaches back further. For instance]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dan-mckinnon-gives-us-blues-with-a-groove-on-the-cleaner/Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dan-mckinnon-gives-us-blues-with-a-groove-on-the-cleaner/ Clarence Fountain Photo: Adam McCullough
Born in Tyler, Alabama on November 28th, 1929, Fountain grew up in a churchgoing and musical family in Selma. At age eight he was enrolled at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind in Talladega. There he joined a large bo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blind-boys-of-alabama-founding-member-clarence-fountain-dead-at-88/Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blind-boys-of-alabama-founding-member-clarence-fountain-dead-at-88/ Ally Venable is 18-years-old, but she is also a talented singer and guitarist who proves that looks and assumptions can be deceiving on Puppet Show, her sophomore album. She might be young but she is far beyond her years in ability.
Venable is an old-school rock singer and guitarist. Her playing moves]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ally-venable-steps-up-on-puppet-show/Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ally-venable-steps-up-on-puppet-show/ Eddy Clearwater Live Photo: Roman Sobus
Ironically, in an April interview with American Blues Scene, Clearwater stated that he had recently visited his cardiologist, who gave him a clean bill of health. “In fact, last Tuesday I saw my cardiologist, and he gave me a high five, saying I was in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-hall-of-famer-eddy-the-chief-clearwater-dead-at-83/Sat, 02 Jun 2018 01:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-hall-of-famer-eddy-the-chief-clearwater-dead-at-83/ The album title reflects the group’s mission of giving the same show, and a hundred percent of themselves, whether there are five or five thousand people in the audience. Recorded live at the Blue Bamboo Arts Center in Orlando, Florida, S]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cece-teneal-amp-soul-kamotion-give-it-all-for-lsquo5or5000rsquo/Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cece-teneal-amp-soul-kamotion-give-it-all-for-lsquo5or5000rsquo/ Eli Cook is a force of nature. One can not experience his music and not be at once moved, shaken, roused, and alive. The Atlanta Auditory Association said of him, “His songs have as much in common with Howlin’ Wolf as they do with Steve Earle.”
His self-produced album High-Dollar Gospel out last August on C.R.8 Records, was a revelation but is not for the tame or the meek. Think John Campbell meets Bob Dylan and that will get the unini]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-eli-cook-celebrates-furry-lewis-turn-your-money-green/Thu, 31 May 2018 15:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-eli-cook-celebrates-furry-lewis-turn-your-money-green/ Grammy Award-winning rocker and preservationist Jack White surprised Woodrow Wilson High School students in the District of Columbia with a spontaneous off-the-cuff lunchtime performance today. White is between shows at The Anthem and just showed up with his band, set up, and played a set that lasted about 45 minutes.
White and company will continue touring including stops at the Governors Ball in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jack-white-gives-surprise-concert-at-dc-high-school/Thu, 31 May 2018 03:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jack-white-gives-surprise-concert-at-dc-high-school/ On the first anniversary of Gregg Allman’s passing, Devon Allman and friends took to the stage at The Music Instrument Museum, in Phoenix, Arizona. The MIM, a collection of instruments from all over the world is a must see if you’re into the music scene and definitely a bucket list item. Make sure to give yourself time to experience this incredible find, and you won’t be disappointed.
Devon Allman started things off and had the crowd in the palm of his hand in in s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-devon-allman-project-lights-up-the-music-instrument-museum/Wed, 30 May 2018 06:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-devon-allman-project-lights-up-the-music-instrument-museum/ Can we even imagine a girl from New York City not yet 16, being taught by the great Reverend Gary Davis in his home? Or,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-video-gimme-a-pigfoot-and-a-bottle-of-beer-by-rory-block/Tue, 29 May 2018 19:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-video-gimme-a-pigfoot-and-a-bottle-of-beer-by-rory-block/ Can we even imagine a girl from New York City not yet 16, being taught by the great Reverend Gary Davis in his home? Or,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-song-gimme-a-pigfoot-and-a-bottle-of-beer-by-rory-block/Tue, 29 May 2018 19:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-song-gimme-a-pigfoot-and-a-bottle-of-beer-by-rory-block/ Sure, he plays the blues, but what he does with blues is always expanding the vernacular. Memphis Song has been described as completing a trifecta of Tas Cru’s creativity that includes Cru’s two previous albums, 2014’s You Keep the Money and 2016’s Simme]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-heal-my-soul-by-tas-cru/Tue, 29 May 2018 15:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-heal-my-soul-by-tas-cru/ John Mayall with his Strat -Photo by Jeff Fasano
John Mayall, “The Godfather of British Blues” has canceled remaining shows for May and his June shows as well. The 84-year-old blues patriarch has been battling pneumonia and is recovering.
A May 25th post on his Facebook page reads:
“We are very sorry to announce that John Mayall has to reschedule his upcoming May/June shows due to needing continued medical care after a bout of pneumonia. For those of you who have bought]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-cancels-tour-dates-due-to-health-issues/Tue, 29 May 2018 06:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-cancels-tour-dates-due-to-health-issues/ 1.  “I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)” by  Howlin’ Wolf.
“Oh, I asked her for water, oh, she brought me gasolineOh, I asked her for water, oh, she brought me gasolineThat’s the troublingest womanThat I ever seen&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-20-best-lines-in-songs/Mon, 28 May 2018 21:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-20-best-lines-in-songs/ Allman’s first guitar was a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Jr that he purchased in ’61. He used it until ‘65 when he supposedly pawned it.
Duane’s Gibson Les Paul Jr
Delaney Bramlett later said that he purchased a red Les Paul Jr from a pawn shop, and when he showed it to]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-guitars-did-duane-allman-play/Sat, 26 May 2018 18:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-guitars-did-duane-allman-play/ Join us as we premiere “You Left It Behind,” the latest video from the band. It’s a tongue-in-cheek look at forgetfulness and the trials of being on the road, with a swing feel. Cathy Lemons tells us:
“This is the first song Phil and I ever wrote together with our]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-you-left-it-behind-by-the-lucky-losers/Thu, 24 May 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-you-left-it-behind-by-the-lucky-losers/ Wisdom & Decay was recorded at Ardent Studios. But that’s not where the history ends. To create a truly Memphis flavored soul blues album, Jensen brought in a horn section and a string quartet. Both additions were recorded at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording Studio.
Jensen is billed as an eccent]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lsquowisdom-amp-decayrsquo-from-jeff-jensen-his-most-soulful-yet/Wed, 23 May 2018 21:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lsquowisdom-amp-decayrsquo-from-jeff-jensen-his-most-soulful-yet/ Memphis, TN — According to a post on his Facebook page, Southern Avenue’s guitarist Ori Naftaly is reporting that the house he shares with Tierinii Jackson in Memphis was broken into this past weekend and his gear has been stolen.
Ori’s post from last night reads, “Update: our house was broken into several times. These people ate from our fridge, cooked chicken, and came back several]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenues-ori-naftaly-has-gear-stolen-from-his-home/Wed, 23 May 2018 00:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenues-ori-naftaly-has-gear-stolen-from-his-home/ It took a while, but were able to have a chat with Mike Zito. Guitarist, singer, song-writer, and producer, Zito is one of the busiest artists on the circuit today. He has a brand new album, a very recent Blues Music Award, and tours almost non-stop. He’s also a genuinely humble and generous man.
We spoke about the music on First Class Life, what being Rock Blues Artist of the year means to him, and what’s next for Mike Zito.
JD Na]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mike-zito-whats-new-and-whats-next/Tue, 22 May 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mike-zito-whats-new-and-whats-next/ There are three covers on the album: Eddie Taylor’s “Big Town Playboy,&rd]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/problem-child-by-dany-franchi-is-texas-flavored-joy/Mon, 21 May 2018 16:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/problem-child-by-dany-franchi-is-texas-flavored-joy/ Joe Cocker’s gravel toned soul voice was one of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s greatest.
From his infamous on stage movements, drug and alcohol addictions in the seventies, to life on “Mad Dog Ranch,” Cocker’s life was nothing short of extraordinary.
On what would’ve been his 74th birthday we look at ten of the most interesting facts from the life, and times of Britain’s etern]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-more-things-you-didnt-know-about-joe-cocker/Mon, 21 May 2018 01:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-more-things-you-didnt-know-about-joe-cocker/ AJ Ghent [a-jent] – The Neo Blues ProjectAlly Venable Band – Puppet ShowBad Temper Joe – Ain’t Worth a DamnBear Williams – Water of LoveBees Deluxe – Voice of DogBen Harpe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/newest-blues-albums-to-our-auto-dj/Sun, 20 May 2018 18:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/newest-blues-albums-to-our-auto-dj/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tas-cru-sings-us-his-memphis-song/Sat, 19 May 2018 18:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tas-cru-sings-us-his-memphis-song/ The nomination follows a breakthrough year for Childers, which saw the release of his critically acclaimed debut album, Purgatory. The record—produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson—landed on multiple “Best of 20]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tyler-childers-nominated-for-ldquoemerging-artist-of-the-yearrdquo-at-2018-americana-honors-amp-awards/Thu, 17 May 2018 22:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tyler-childers-nominated-for-ldquoemerging-artist-of-the-yearrdquo-at-2018-americana-honors-amp-awards/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/stevie-saves-the-music/Wed, 16 May 2018 21:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/stevie-saves-the-music/ Whether it’s the Funk Brothers making Motown magic, Little Walter and Willie Dixon building the foundations of modern blues, the Beatles turning music on its head, Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis capturing the raw energy of early rock and roll, or The Swampers reinventing r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/noel-webster-restoring-history-and-giving-chess-records-a-new-start-part-one/Wed, 16 May 2018 14:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/noel-webster-restoring-history-and-giving-chess-records-a-new-start-part-one/ Dworski will continue in her position until June 4th, when incoming director Tracy Lane will take her place at the helm.
Roots N Blues N BBQ has grown significantly over the years, and many colleagues of Dworski have credited her with that]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/directorship-of-roots-n-blues-n-bbq-changes-hands/Mon, 14 May 2018 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/directorship-of-roots-n-blues-n-bbq-changes-hands/ Low Cut Connie Live Photo: Luke Awtry
We recently spoke to the piano pounding songwriter, and took a listen to the group’s fifth album, Dirty Pictures (Part 2). Scheduled for release on May 18th via Contender Records, Part 2 is a step up from LCC’s grimy take on American life. The new album is more introspective, more character driven,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/low-cut-connie-heralds-the-return-of-rock-n-roll/Mon, 14 May 2018 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/low-cut-connie-heralds-the-return-of-rock-n-roll/ Naturally  you begin to perform]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kara-grainger-is-enjoying-her-journey-and-her-music/Sat, 12 May 2018 15:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kara-grainger-is-enjoying-her-journey-and-her-music/ Victor Wainwright – Photo: Austin Britt
A disciple of the old barrelhouse school, Wainwright is pushing the blues into a new direction. He wrote all 12 tracks on the new release, and co-produced the album with Dave Gross. Experimenting with the rhythms of their collective areas,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/victor-wainwright-pushing-the-envelope-with-the-train/Fri, 11 May 2018 15:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/victor-wainwright-pushing-the-envelope-with-the-train/ TAJMO COLLABORATORS TAJ MAHAL AND KEB’ MO’ TEAM UP AGAIN TO WIN SEVEN AWARDS COMBINED AT THE BLUES FOUNDATION’S 39TH ANNUAL BLUES MUSIC AWARDSRick Estrin scored a trio of honors too at blues music’s big night, with Mavis Staples, Trombone Shorty, and Robert Cray also among the winners. Photo by Joseph A. RosenPhoto by Jeff Fasano
Photo by Joseph A. Rosen
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The 39th annual Blues Music Award]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-blues-music-awards-winners-announced-taj-mahal-amp-kebrsquo-morsquos-lsquotajmorsquo-wins-seven-awards/Fri, 11 May 2018 09:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-blues-music-awards-winners-announced-taj-mahal-amp-kebrsquo-morsquos-lsquotajmorsquo-wins-seven-awards/ Winners are in bold blue type.
39th Blues Music Award Winners:
Acoustic Album of the Year:
Catfish Keith – Mississippi River BluesDoug MacLeod – Break the ChainGuy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi – Sonny & Brownie]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/here-are-your-2018-blues-music-award-winners/Fri, 11 May 2018 00:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/here-are-your-2018-blues-music-award-winners/ Today the pop music, piano loving world celebrates the 69th birthday of Billy Joel. Fellow New Yorker, Paul Loren has a special gift for the piano man. A cover of his #1 hit song, “Tell Her About It.”
It was the summer of 1983, and the music of Billy Joel’s An Innocent Man permeated the airwaves. An Innocent Man was a concept album, paying tribute to the popular musical genres of Joel’s adolescence. Of the 10 tr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paul-lorens-birthday-gift-to-billy-joel-tell-her-about-it/Wed, 09 May 2018 17:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paul-lorens-birthday-gift-to-billy-joel-tell-her-about-it/ The Teskey Brothers are a musical force to be reckoned with. Before the release of their debut album “Half Mile Harvest” in 2017, the Brothers had never played outside of Victoria, but have since been touring extensively, playing their blues embedded soul music for a number of sell out crowds across the world. They’ve even gained the tick of approval from fellow Aussie Chris Hemsworth, a.k.a Thor.
I caught up with blues brothers Josh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-teskey-brothers-love-their-blues/Mon, 07 May 2018 21:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-teskey-brothers-love-their-blues/ Kingston Mines Photo: David Armano
Pellegrino earned his nickname legitimately. A practicing MD for over 3 decades, he was filled with stories that he loved to share. Many times, he waived his fee for folks who came to him with medical issues, but couldn’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kingston-mines-owner-doc-pellegrino-dead-at-92/Fri, 04 May 2018 20:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kingston-mines-owner-doc-pellegrino-dead-at-92/ Cain’s latest eponymous release gathered a group of all-star musicians for an unforgettable session. Larry Taylor (Canned Heat, John Mayall), Tony Braunagel (Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal), Jim Pugh (John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray), and N]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-cain-talks-music-the-all-stars-and-his-biggest-influence-his-dad/Fri, 04 May 2018 16:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-cain-talks-music-the-all-stars-and-his-biggest-influence-his-dad/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/greyhounds-create-huge-sound-on-cheyenne-valley-drive/Fri, 04 May 2018 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/greyhounds-create-huge-sound-on-cheyenne-valley-drive/ Naturally this means postponing a number of upcoming performances as Wilson will need time to]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brian-wilson-postpones-upcoming-shows/Thu, 03 May 2018 18:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brian-wilson-postpones-upcoming-shows/ One of the most sampled drummers ever, John Henry “Jabo” Starks died Tuesday at his home in Mobile, Alabama. His death was confirmed by his manager Kathie Williams who said he’d been in hospice care for about a week battling leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes.
Starks was closeley associated with another James Brown drummer, Clyde Stubblefield, who died last year. The two were responsible for defining]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/james-brown-drummer-john-jabo-starks-dead-at-79/Thu, 03 May 2018 06:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/james-brown-drummer-john-jabo-starks-dead-at-79/ Long time collaborator Tom Hambridge produced the 14 track offering. The Blues Is Alive and Well also features heavy-hitting British blues rockers Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, and James Bay.
The Glimme]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guy-proclaims-the-blues-is-alive-and-well-on-new-album/Thu, 03 May 2018 04:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guy-proclaims-the-blues-is-alive-and-well-on-new-album/ Little Steven Van Zandt will loom large in the week’s festivities for the 39th Blues Music Awards.
On Tuesday evening May 8th, he will open the week’s festivities with a performance showcasing Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul at the Memphis’ Minglewood Hall. He’ll also emcee the 39th Blues Music Awards dinner and show on Thursday, May 10th at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in the Grand Ballroom. Joining him are a star-studded group of pr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-music-week-2018-will-be-like-no-other/Wed, 02 May 2018 20:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-music-week-2018-will-be-like-no-other/ Johnson’s Beach in Guerneville, California is a picturesque venue that rests along the beach of the Russian River, only a stone’s throw from numerous wineries offering the perfect backdrop for a festival. Here, music lovers have enjoyed incredible music over the years including the Doobie Brothers, Dr. John, The Neville Brothers, Buddy Guy, Etta James and many others.
The 2018 Russian River Blues Festival returns to the beach on Sunday, June 10th. Here music festivals have bee]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robert-cray-to-headline-the-russian-river-blues-festival/Wed, 02 May 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robert-cray-to-headline-the-russian-river-blues-festival/ The 86 year-old Koester founded the label in St. Louis in 1953 under the name Delmar after the street in the area flush with jazz venues. He would add the “k” to the name for his own last name, Koester. He clo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delmark-records-founder-bob-koester-sells-label/Wed, 02 May 2018 04:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delmark-records-founder-bob-koester-sells-label/ Shine Bright kicks off with the title track, a rowdy, gospel-feeling tune that sets the mood for what’s to come. What follows are some great up-tempo tunes. The funky,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marcia-ball-shines-bright-on-her-newest-alligator-release/Tue, 01 May 2018 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marcia-ball-shines-bright-on-her-newest-alligator-release/ NASHVILLE, Tenn — Gibson Brands Inc., makers of the iconic and instantly recognizable guitars known the world over filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this morning. (The case is: Gibson Brands Inc., 18-11025, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware.)  With the company facing more than $500 million in loans due in the coming six months, as well as declining sales, there had been wide spec]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gibson-guitar-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-will-work-turnaround-plan/Tue, 01 May 2018 17:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gibson-guitar-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-will-work-turnaround-plan/ Fans of Bonnie Raitt were taken by surprise earlier today when the 68 year-old Grammy Award winning singer-guitarist announced the cancelation of her tour dates with James Taylor due to an undisclosed medical issue.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee addressed her fans’ disappointment on her Facebook page saying:
I’m deeply sorry to have to disappoint my fans, James and colleagues with these cancellations. I was so looking for]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bonnie-raitt-cancels-tour-dates-due-to-medical-issue/Mon, 30 Apr 2018 22:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bonnie-raitt-cancels-tour-dates-due-to-medical-issue/ Growing up in Cajun country wasn’t always easy for Brother Dege. He worked sundry odd-jobs, experime]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brother-dege-writes-a-psyouthern-farmers-almanac/Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brother-dege-writes-a-psyouthern-farmers-almanac/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paul-thorn-gives-us-gospel-on-dont-let-the-devil-ride/Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paul-thorn-gives-us-gospel-on-dont-let-the-devil-ride/ Friday night 84 year old Bobby Rush joined Queens of the Stone Age on stage. The Grammy Award and twelve time BMA winning performer was invited onstage by lead guitarist Josh Homme as the band was playing to the crowd at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans.
Homme introduced Rush saying, “I’d like to welcome special bad-ass motherf**ker, Mr. Bobby Rush!” The band then launched into “Burn]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bobby-rush-jams-with-queens-of-the-stone-age/Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bobby-rush-jams-with-queens-of-the-stone-age/ That “little band from Texas,” ZZ Top has been making music for nearly 50 years. ZZ Top are well known for their humorous lyrics. Their early hit song, La Grange, drew worldwide attention to the town of La Grange, Texas.
Or more to the point, one of La Grange’s attractions. So what was ZZ Top’s song “La Grange” really about?
ZZ Top‘s main lyricist is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-is-zz-tops-la-grange-about-and-the-story-behind-9-other-zz-top-classics/Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-is-zz-tops-la-grange-about-and-the-story-behind-9-other-zz-top-classics/ Dave Mason had founded two bands by the time he was 15. He’s a founding member o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dave-mason-and-steve-cropper-team-up-for-a-summer-tour/Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dave-mason-and-steve-cropper-team-up-for-a-summer-tour/ Charles Neville at Chicago Blues Festival Photo: Marilyn Stringer
Born in New Orleans in 1938, Charles was the second eldest of iconic New Orleans R&B/Funk band the Neville Brothers. Of mixed African-American, Caucasian, and Native American (Choctaw) heritage, the brothers (Art, Charles, Aaron, and Cyril) grew up on the Crescent City’s Valence Street and in the Calliope housing developme]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/charles-charlie-the-horn-man-neville-dead-at-79/Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/charles-charlie-the-horn-man-neville-dead-at-79/ The latest of these is Cheyenne Valley Drive, released via the Bud’s Recording Service label on April 6th. Greyh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-greyhounds-no-other-woman/Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-greyhounds-no-other-woman/ Two dozen acts on 3 stages over 2 days makes the Doheny Blues Festival one of the most popular in the area.
Festival founder Rich Sherman on stage at Doheny Blues. Photo: Jay Blakesberg
While gearing up for the 21st Annual eve]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rich-sherman-gives-us-the-lowdown-on-the-doheny-blues-festival/Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rich-sherman-gives-us-the-lowdown-on-the-doheny-blues-festival/ During the 1950s, Chicago’s West Side was a breeding ground for some of the world’s greatest bluesmen. Magic Sam, Otis Rush, Freddie King and others ruled the clubs. With his fierce guitar playing, soulful and emotive vocals and wild stage shows, Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater easily belongs on this list. A Chicago legend, Clearwater is an intense, flamboyant blues-rocking showman. He’s equally comfortable playing the deepest, mos]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/interview-with-eddy-the-chief-clearwater-i-always-had-the-faith/Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/interview-with-eddy-the-chief-clearwater-i-always-had-the-faith/ It is longtime Memphis music photographer Patricia Rainer’s first-ever exhibit and spans the musical environment of post-Stax and -Elvis Memphis of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Included in the exhibit are both candid and po]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-chaos-and-the-cosmos-photography-by-patricia-rainer/Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-chaos-and-the-cosmos-photography-by-patricia-rainer/ The Bay Area band’s music is a positive force full of feel and finesse, and they’ve slowly but surely become a staple for contemporary American rhythm and blues, giving the world a much-needed d]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/california-honeydrops-on-how-they-blend-nola-sensibilities-with-funky-rampb/Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/california-honeydrops-on-how-they-blend-nola-sensibilities-with-funky-rampb/ Dom Flemons has always been one to answer the call of his spirit. Throughout his odyssey of self-realization, he crosses bridges as he encounters them, and always remains true to the journey his soul prods him to continue.
The Grammy Award winner and co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops is often referred to as “The American Songster” as his body of work spans almost a century of African American music including songs and so much more. Flemons]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-dom-flemons-steel-pony-blues/Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-dom-flemons-steel-pony-blues/ 60 years ago, legendary guitarist Link Wray released his influential instrumental song “Rumble,” and changed the face and sound of rock and roll forever. The song has now been inducted into the very first class of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Singles.
This marks the first time The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has honored songs in addition to artists, and “Rumble” was immortalized alongside five other singles. The other in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/link-wrayrsquos-ldquorumblerdquo-inducted-into-first-class-of-rock-amp-roll-hall-of-famersquos-singles/Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/link-wrayrsquos-ldquorumblerdquo-inducted-into-first-class-of-rock-amp-roll-hall-of-famersquos-singles/ Tommy Conwell is a guitarist, songwriter, and performer. He is best known as the frontman for the Philadelphia-based band Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers. The band had a #1 US mainstream rock hit in 1988 with “I’m Not Your Man”.
Conwell’s music also appeared in the following original motion picture soundtracks: Shout-“Devil Call Me Back Home” (Written by Tommy Conwell and performed by Otis Rush) and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brant-buckley-interviews-blues-rocker-tommy-conwell/Sat, 21 Apr 2018 15:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brant-buckley-interviews-blues-rocker-tommy-conwell/ The highlight of the album is “Dancin’ in The Rain” featuring W]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/black-stone-cherrys-fertile-family-tree/Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/black-stone-cherrys-fertile-family-tree/ The post Win A “Doheny Blues By The Coast” Prize Package: VIP Passes, Blues Tees, Music, and more! appeared first on American Blues Scene.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-a-doheny-blues-by-the-coast-prize-package-vip-passes-blues-tees-music-and-more/Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-a-doheny-blues-by-the-coast-prize-package-vip-passes-blues-tees-music-and-more/ “Everywhere I go fans keep saying they want me to get out and play again,” Betts told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in December. “I think the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dickey-betts-will-begin-his-2018-comeback-close-to-home/Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dickey-betts-will-begin-his-2018-comeback-close-to-home/ Blues-rocker Mike Zito will release his new album via Ruf Records on May 11th. First Class Life marks the return of Zito to the genre he loves the most, the blues.
“The title track is a nod to where I’ve come from and where I’m at,” Zito explains. “It’s a rags-to-riches story, and it’s true. I grew up poor in St. Louis, and now I’m traveling the world to sing my songs.”
Most bluesmen never]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mike-zito-lives-a-first-class-life/Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mike-zito-lives-a-first-class-life/ Blues-rocker Mike Zito will release his new album via Ruf Records on May 11th. First Class Life marks the return of Zito to the genre he loves the most, the blues.
“The title track is a nod to where I’ve come from and where I’m at,” Zito explains. “It’s a rags-to-riches story, and it’s true. I grew up poor in St. Louis, and now I’m traveling the world to sing my songs.”
Most bluesmen never]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mike-zito-is-living-a-first-class-life/Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mike-zito-is-living-a-first-class-life/ I caught up with the Grammy award winning Bluesman at Bluesfest Byron Bay to talk his first encounter with the blues, being late to Muddy Waters’ birthday party then rejecting his women]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bobby-rush-hes-gifted-and-hes-blessed/Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bobby-rush-hes-gifted-and-hes-blessed/ Record Store Day is upon us again. Saturday, April 21st is the day when scores of audiophiles descend on their local record shops. Our goal? To be the first to have exclusive or first release music, on vinyl, in our hot little hands.
Over 240 independent shops participate in Record Store Day each year. Each having a limited amount of the kind of music that wax addicts are looking for. This year, everyone from ABBA to Zero 7 will have LPs, EPs, and singles on the shelves as]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-must-have-albums-for-record-store-day-2018/Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-must-have-albums-for-record-store-day-2018/ The club has announced that none other than Buddy Guy will perform the final show here on April 29th. Music lovers can enjoy a closing week celebration that will include performances by&nbs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/times-square-bb-king-blues-club-amp-grill-closing/Tue, 17 Apr 2018 23:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/times-square-bb-king-blues-club-amp-grill-closing/ Chris Dornan and I sat down with the guitar great backstage at Bluesfest Byron Bay to discuss, among many other things, the loss of Tom Petty, and Brian Farmer, his dr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/warren-haynes-talks-about-tom-petty-marcus-king-neil-young-and-naked-guy/Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/warren-haynes-talks-about-tom-petty-marcus-king-neil-young-and-naked-guy/ Do a blindfold test on the band’s just-released sixth full-length album Find The Light, and you might think most of the cuts are outtakes from Led Zeppelin III. Look at their exhausting tour schedule, and you see they’re playing the storied King Biscuit Blues Festival, but they’re also appearing on separate dates of their current tour]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blackberry-smoke-volume-with-finesse/Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blackberry-smoke-volume-with-finesse/ For Twist Turner, that’s exactly what fate had in store for him. Over the course of his five-decade career as a drummer, he’s had the opportunity to work with over 40 Grammy Award winners and/or nominees and countless W.C.Handy/BMA winners. Born and raissed in Seattle, Turner left for the daunting rough and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/book-excerpt-a-selection-from-twist-turner-autobiography-blues-with-a-twist/Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/book-excerpt-a-selection-from-twist-turner-autobiography-blues-with-a-twist/ Roots n Blues Friday 2015 Photo: Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival
From the Kick-off event on Thursday]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/artists-announced-for-2018-roots-n-blues-n-bbq-festival/Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/artists-announced-for-2018-roots-n-blues-n-bbq-festival/ Allman Goldflies Band is Florida born Southern music, bred in the tradition of the founder]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/debut-album-from-allman-goldflies-band-is-their-second-chance/Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/debut-album-from-allman-goldflies-band-is-their-second-chance/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/beth-harts-live-from-new-york-front-and-center-out-today/Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/beth-harts-live-from-new-york-front-and-center-out-today/ Imagine doing something that is your passion all your life in your spare tim]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sneak-peek-from-leo-bud-welch-documentary-late-blossom-blues/Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sneak-peek-from-leo-bud-welch-documentary-late-blossom-blues/ Corne wrote all twelve tunes on Happy Songs For the Apocalypse as well as providing lead vocals, and playing a fistful of instruments. One of those songs is the metaphorical “Pull String to Inflate.”
“‘Pull String to Inflate’ sort of uses the metaphor of a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-track-from-eric-corne-pull-string-to-inflate/Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-track-from-eric-corne-pull-string-to-inflate/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/fantastic-negrito-is-true-to-his-voice-with-please-dont-be-dead/Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/fantastic-negrito-is-true-to-his-voice-with-please-dont-be-dead/ There may not be a more honest bluesman than Mike Zito, whose 15th album First Class Life comes out May 11th on Ruf Records.
As is fitting for a man with the word “Blues” tattooed across his picking hand, First Class Life focuses squarely on blues with heart and chops to spare, not to mention wit and openness. The rocking yet poignant title track explores his journey from addiction to sobriety and then musical recognition.
Blues-rock is a tightrope]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-music-mike-zito-first-class-life/Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-music-mike-zito-first-class-life/ Paul Thorn calls The Biscuit “one of my favorites” and “a wonderful event.” Carolyn Wonderland says it’s like going to Mecca: “You gotta make the pilgrimage because it’s where the music’s real.” Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke looks at the group’s Biscuit date as his job to “make sure we continue to push outwards with our music]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lineup-announced-for-2018-king-biscuit-blues-festival/Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lineup-announced-for-2018-king-biscuit-blues-festival/ He calls the music on his just released CD Don’t Let The Devil Ride “sacred pole dancing.” As he did on Pimps and Preachers, Paul Thorn rubs the sacred and profane together like two sticks to create sparks ’cause that’s what real people do.
“If you go into a strip club, you’ll see a woman dance on a pole, and they’ll play the sultry music, but if you listen to the music that’s really]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paul-thorns-sacred-pole-dance/Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paul-thorns-sacred-pole-dance/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/news-little-steven-joins-blues-foundations-hall-of-fame-inductees-and-blues-music-awards-winners/Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/news-little-steven-joins-blues-foundations-hall-of-fame-inductees-and-blues-music-awards-winners/ Baltimore’s Greg Yawman is a bit of a renaissance man. A semi-retired lawyer, Yawman is a full-time blues fan, history buff, artisan, and author. His incredibly detailed models of Mississippi juke joints, which he donates to the Blues Foundation, are auctioned off at the International Blues Challenge, and Blues Music Awards each year.
But it’s not just the jukes that draw Yawman’s interest. The legends of the blues, along with the histo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/author-greg-yawman-takes-us-to-the-summer-of-the-terraplane-blues/Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/author-greg-yawman-takes-us-to-the-summer-of-the-terraplane-blues/ Staples performed on several hits with the family group including “Respect Yourself,” “I’ll Take You There,” and “Heavy Makes You Happy.” Other members of the Staple Singers included her]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/yvonne-staples-dead-at-80/Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/yvonne-staples-dead-at-80/ Friday and Saturday’s lineups featured the likes of Robert Cray, Beth Hart, John Nemeth, Buddy Guy, Ronnie Earl, Janiva Magness, Eric Gales and m]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tampa-bay-blues-festival-sunday-revives-gallagher-and-brings-the-heat/Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tampa-bay-blues-festival-sunday-revives-gallagher-and-brings-the-heat/ February 16th, 2018 marked the date Amos released his album, The Reverend Shawn Amos Breaks It Down.
“This album was born while on tour through the American south during the spring of 2017,” Amos reflects. “Driving through Tennessee and Alabama, I was reminded of my color, my otherness. I was drawn to ho]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-video-the-reverend-shawn-amos-moved/Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-video-the-reverend-shawn-amos-moved/ Clarksdale, Mississippi – In just 15 years, Clarksdale, Mississippi’s Juke Joint Festival has gone from a small event attracting hundreds to the stuff of blues legend, attracting thousands of music fans from around the globe, annually.
“Based on phone calls and hotel bookings, 2018 is shaping up to be our biggest edition yet,” said co-organizer Roger Stolle. “In past years, we have attracted attendees from as many as 28 for]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clarksdale-mississippis-15th-annual-juke-joint-festival/Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clarksdale-mississippis-15th-annual-juke-joint-festival/ The Blue Élan label release marks the first new music Coolidge has recorded since the tragic death in 2015 of her beloved sister, Priscilla, a recording artist and member of Walela, the Native American trio she and Coolidge founded with Priscilla’s daughter, Laura Satterfield. The recording of the album also coincided with Coolidge’s relocation from S]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rita-coolidge-makes-us-feel-safe-in-the-arms-of-time/Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rita-coolidge-makes-us-feel-safe-in-the-arms-of-time/ The Della Grants’ major focus was on representing their live sound when recording The Live Room Sessions, Vol. 1, and I’m glad they did. If I]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/album-reviewthe-della-grantslive-room-sessions-vol-1/Fri, 06 Apr 2018 20:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/album-reviewthe-della-grantslive-room-sessions-vol-1/ Fred Below in France 1975 Photo: Lionel Decoster
Chicago native, Frederick Below, Jr. was born on September 6th, 1926. He began as a drummer in a high school jazz ba]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/two-chicago-drummers-to-be-inducted-into-blues-hall-of-fame/Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/two-chicago-drummers-to-be-inducted-into-blues-hall-of-fame/ HOLLYWOOD, CA. – Authentic Hendrix, Epic Rights and Perryscope Productions will launch the new Authentic Hendrix global retail program at the world’s largest licensing trade show, Licensing Expo, in Las Vegas, May 22nd – 24th.
Epic Rights and Perryscope Productions will offer retailers, manufacturers and licensees an all-new Authentic Hendrix brand guide with iconic new photographs alo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/authentic-hendrix-announces-exclusive-teaming-to-expand-and-enhance-retail-brand/Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/authentic-hendrix-announces-exclusive-teaming-to-expand-and-enhance-retail-brand/ North Sea Jazz Festival 2018
The Roots (plus very special guests), Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Tord Gustavsen featuring Simin Tander, Jasper Høiby’s Fellow Creatures, David Sanborn Acoustic Band, Nate Smith KINFOLK, Jazzmeia Horn, Moses Boyd Exodus, Mike Stern/Randy Brecker Band, Keyon Ha]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/north-sea-jazz-festival-confirms-another-wave-of-acts/Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/north-sea-jazz-festival-confirms-another-wave-of-acts/ But The Neo Blues Project, Ghent’s studio debut, is a step away from that more technique-centered work. Instead, he’s created a song-driven EP, with lots of grea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/aj-ghent-serves-the-songs-on-the-neo-blues-project/Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/aj-ghent-serves-the-songs-on-the-neo-blues-project/ From the blues of Chicago to the cowboy songs of Austin, Texas, and from Miami’s latin rhythms to the grunge movement of Seattle, it’s a whirlwind trip combining history, t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/americas-musical-journey-a-cross-country-adventure-in-imax/Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/americas-musical-journey-a-cross-country-adventure-in-imax/ Presented by Fisherman’s Market & Grill, Indian Wells Music Festival brings Rock, Blues, Jazz and Country to the spectacular setting of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
“We’re excited to once again be partnering with the Indian Wells]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/indian-wells-music-festival-comes-to-coachella-valley-april-6th-amp-7th/Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/indian-wells-music-festival-comes-to-coachella-valley-april-6th-amp-7th/ As with every year when day five of Bluesfest rolls around it’s a bittersweet affair. You’re tired from a week of partying, the crowds have reduced significantly, but the music is still going, and you don’t want it to end.
Walter Trout‘s second set on the Jambalaya stage was an exhilarating high, this time getting his son Jon up on stage to play guitar with him. In a deeply felt tribute to his wife, Marie, Trout and his guitar-sling]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-five/Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-five/ Local legend Chuck Ross has had his hand in the blues for the better part of 40 years. It all started with his band, Backtrack Blues Band. He then went on to own the Ringside Cafe, which has always been a staple venue for blues aficionados and music lovers alike in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
In 1995, he took booking bands to the next level by founding the Tampa Bay Blues Festival. This premier festival has been host to the biggest names in the blues]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tampa-bay-blues-festival-founder-chuck-ross-reveals-why-its-so-special/Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tampa-bay-blues-festival-founder-chuck-ross-reveals-why-its-so-special/ Finally after 16 years, and a failed attempt at playing down-under a few years ago in the midst of his health problems, Walter Trout graced the Jambalaya stage and solidified Bluesfest day four as a triumph.
The highlight of the set was an emotional rendition of “Say Goodbye To The Blues” which he dedicated to the King of the Blues, Mr. BB King. Trout told the story of meeting BB King when he was a 16-year-old guitarist, and having the blues]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-four/Mon, 02 Apr 2018 06:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-four/ There are times in everyone’s life when life throws them a curveball. Sometimes, we even get thrown a knuckleball! It is inevitable. What counts ultimately is how we handle these trials and tribulations. For instance: How does one deal with the loss of a close friend? How do we deal with knowing that after twenty five years of that person being there for us, all of a sudden they are gone, never to return?
If you are singer, composer and gu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/becky-barksdale-pays-tribute-with-dance-the-night-with-me/Sun, 01 Apr 2018 23:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/becky-barksdale-pays-tribute-with-dance-the-night-with-me/ After Friday night’s mind altering performance from Robert Plant and his Sensational Space Shifters, I was reeling, hoping that the remaining three days of the festival could live up to the standard that had been set, and day three seriously upped the ante.
Saturday’s standout moments were the best of the entire festival. After another crowd pleasing, sweat inducing set from the California Honeydrops, CHAIN served up some Aussie blues in the Delta tent,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-three/Sun, 01 Apr 2018 05:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-three/ After an impressive first day at Bluesfest, Day Two had a lot to live up to, but it delivered in spades with some of the festivals best moments yet.
Not only was there sunshine, but there was “Soulshine.” Gov’t Mule played the Allman Brothers track during their set in the Jambalaya tent. No strangers to inviting guests on stage, they were later accompanied by Jackson Browne for a beautiful cover of “Melissa.” To see Browne and Mule on s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-two/Sat, 31 Mar 2018 06:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-two/ There aren’t too many of us that are given a second chance. It isn’t very often that the universe affords a person the opportuity to start over and make things right. For those few unique and privileged souls granted this luxury, it is not to be squandered.
Lance Lopez has led an extraordinary life, joining Johnny Taylor at 17 and then at 18, he became Lucky Peterson’s band leader. At 20 he met and was encouraged by John Lee Hooker. His mentors included Bill]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lance-lopez-makes-the-most-of-new-beginnings/Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lance-lopez-makes-the-most-of-new-beginnings/ Finley is currently on the East Coast leg of the 20-date “Easy Eye Sound Revue Tour,&rdquo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robert-finley-confirms-headlining-tour-amp-dates-opening-for-nathaniel-rateliff/Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robert-finley-confirms-headlining-tour-amp-dates-opening-for-nathaniel-rateliff/ So, it’s that time of year again, the time for chocolate bunnies, and Byron Bay Bluesfest! It’s the only place us blues lovers would want to spend the long Easter weekend.
Although the weather Gods weren’t exactly shining down upon us, the crowds were out in full force for Day One of the festival. With their gumboots on, and smiles unwavering, the enthused crowds were dancing freely in the heavy rain while making thei]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-one/Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesfest-byron-bay-day-one/ On Backstage Pass, Ghost Town Blues band]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gtbbs-backstage-pass-is-a-real-good-time/Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gtbbs-backstage-pass-is-a-real-good-time/ With heart, soul, and harmonicas in hand, these five bands from the land down under have been slogging along, playing with conviction and proving that the Australians know exactly how to play the blues.
CarsonIn 1970, on the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/australias-best-blues-bands/Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/australias-best-blues-bands/ These tracks were first heard on the original Bizarre albums — Black Music for White People (1991), Stone Crazy (1993), and Somethin’ Funny Goin’ On (1994).]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-previously-unheard-screamin-jay-hawkins-track-another-pain/Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premiere-previously-unheard-screamin-jay-hawkins-track-another-pain/ Eric Johnson Band live at the Voodoo Lounge. Photo: JD Nash
The Voodoo Lounge, located inside Harrah’s North Kansas City casino/hotel complex, was made for a show like this. Attendees of all ages gathered to hear one of the world’s premier rock guitar]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-johnson-rocks-the-voodoo-in-kansas-city/Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-johnson-rocks-the-voodoo-in-kansas-city/ Sometimes the stars align, and sometimes they have a little help. Mascot Records has launched a new imprint, The Players Club, and has chosen as its first release, Toby Arrives by the Koch Marshall Trio.
The trio is made up of father/son pair Greg Koch on guitar and Dylan Koch on drums. The third leg of this instrumental fusion group is Toby Lee Marshall, the Hammond B-3 specialist who came out of retirement for this project.
It should be]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/koch-marshall-trio-debut-launches-new-mascot-imprint/Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/koch-marshall-trio-debut-launches-new-mascot-imprint/ Your name is Mud Morganfield and you are the oldest son of McKinley Morganfield, known to millions as Muddy Waters. You decide that you want to make music and you want to sing. But most of all you want to do that being your own person and honoring your father’s legacy at the same time. Outside looking in says that’s a tough bet. Reality says that it is a tough bet indeed.
Mud Morganfield is undeterred and sets about getting a heaping helping of living life and e]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mud-morganfield-honors-the-past-and-chases-the-future/Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mud-morganfield-honors-the-past-and-chases-the-future/ Also appearing are Dickey Betts & His Band, Oteil & Friends, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, Ander’s Osborne & Jackie Greene, and even more. At large players will i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-peach-music-festival-promises-to-be-amazing-again/Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:32:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-peach-music-festival-promises-to-be-amazing-again/ Louisiana born and Texas raised, Lance Lopez has been slinging a mean guitar since the age of 14. He signed with the Mascot Label Group in November of last year, and his debut album on the Provogue imprint, Tell the Truth, hit the streets on March 2nd.
Lopez was influenced by Jimi Hendrix, BB King, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He’s been mentored by artists including Billy Gibbons and Johnny Winter. Blending the Delta sounds of the 20s with th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tell-the-truth-from-lance-lopez-tells-his-story/Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tell-the-truth-from-lance-lopez-tells-his-story/ The release of a live album is always exciting. In the case of Make My Home in Florida, the Backtrack Blues Band doubles up on the excitement by including a DVD of the performance.
The Backtrack Blues Band values its Florida and Caribbean roots. The band was an early leader on the Florida blues scene in the 1980s, as one of the first authentic blues acts in the Tampa Bay area. Make My Home in Florida marks the group’s sixth album and reflec]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/backtrack-blues-band-says-make-my-home-in-florida/Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/backtrack-blues-band-says-make-my-home-in-florida/ Before the 1960s ended, Led Zeppelin would release its debut album, and the blues was officially something almost completely different than it had been at the start of the decad]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/reverend-raven-amp-the-chain-smokinrsquo-altar-boys-nail-it-on-lsquomy-lifersquo/Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/reverend-raven-amp-the-chain-smokinrsquo-altar-boys-nail-it-on-lsquomy-lifersquo/ Parents Martha and Jim bought ten year old Stevie a toy guitar, a Masonite model from Sears decorated with cowboys, horses, and other Wild West decals. Despite it being a plaything, Stevie tried his best to get music from the guitar.
Photo: Martha Vaughan, 1964
The toy guita]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-guitars-did-stevie-ray-vaughan-play/Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-guitars-did-stevie-ray-vaughan-play/ One may question why a blues publication would be reviewing a reggae album. The answer is simple. Reggae, like the blues, is roots music. It’s not just music but culture. Not to mention many Caribbean rhythms are heard throughout the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mystic-bowies-talking-dreads-is-a-talking-heads-tribute-reggae-style/Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mystic-bowies-talking-dreads-is-a-talking-heads-tribute-reggae-style/ This multiple Grammy Award-winning future Hall of Famer has given us blues, soul, gospel, rock, reggae and more and never misses a beat. His live pe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ben-harper-is-in-a-good-place/Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ben-harper-is-in-a-good-place/ The eponymous release Victor Wainwright and the Train hit the streets on March 9th, via Ruf Records.
When some multi-award winning artists would be slowing]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clear-the-tracks-ndash-itrsquos-lsquovictor-wainwright-amp-the-trainrsquo/Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clear-the-tracks-ndash-itrsquos-lsquovictor-wainwright-amp-the-trainrsquo/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-devils-crossroads-owning-a-piece-of-the-robert-johnson-legacy/Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-devils-crossroads-owning-a-piece-of-the-robert-johnson-legacy/ When Jai Johanny Johanson was a kid he secretly wished he had a name like Jor-El. “You know who that is,” he asks. “That’s Superman’s daddy. In 7th or 8th grade in study hall I thought that was the coolest thing.”
When Duane Allman formed the Allman Brothers, he asked Jai Johanny to join the band before he brought in his own brother, Gregg Allman. To millions of southern rock fans, Duane was Superman, and when the baritone sax pl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jaimoe-the-last-superman-standing/Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jaimoe-the-last-superman-standing/ Growing up with a legendary musician for a father can be a double-edged sword. Choosing to follow his path as a musician presents its own unique issues as well. To some extent, people might expect you to play the same music, and perform the same type of show.
Bernard Allison got the best of both worlds though. He learned everything he could about life and music from his father Luther, on and off the stage. He basically grew up on the road with his father, and after proving him]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bernard-allison-gives-us-blues-and-then-some/Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bernard-allison-gives-us-blues-and-then-some/ North Sea Jazz Festival Logo
Since its inception in 1976, The North Sea Jazz Festival has built an unrivaled reputation as one of the world’s most unique and eclectic events, attracting music fans from across the globe. This year, the organization will present more than 1,000 m]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/north-sea-jazz-festival-announce-second-wave-of-artists-for-2018/Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/north-sea-jazz-festival-announce-second-wave-of-artists-for-2018/ Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty is the first headliner announced for this year’s BluesFest, which returns to The O2 in London October 25th – 28th.
Fogerty will be performing songs from his days with Creedence Clearwater Revival. It is his first headline show in the UK since 2008. Fogerty will be joined on the bill by the Steve Miller Band, who this year celebrate 50 years since the release of their debut album Children]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-fogerty-and-steve-miller-open-londons-bluesfest-2018/Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-fogerty-and-steve-miller-open-londons-bluesfest-2018/ Like many teens in the 1960s, Michael Floyd got caught up in the East Coast folk music scene. Going a step further he took the stage name Jesse Graves, tracked down the elder masters of the time, and dove headlong into the blues.
Graves was playing colleges and coffee houses when he met Johnny Shines. The men found had two things in common; love for the blues, and a concern that a young, white man would be taken seriously in the genre.
Shines told the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brant-buckley-interviews-bluesman-jesse-graves/Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:41:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/brant-buckley-interviews-bluesman-jesse-graves/ Canadian blues siren Angel Forrest is in a good place these days. She’s released ten solid albums, and won numerous awards including ten Lys Blues Awards and eight Maple Blues Awards. She is loved by fans throughout Canada and Europe as well. She’s shared the stage with the likes of Burton Cummings, Shawn Phillips, Thornetta Davis, Larry McCray and more.
Forrest released Electric Love on February 2nd of this year. The double live album conta]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/angel-forrest-on-why-her-career-is-so-amazing/Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:48:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/angel-forrest-on-why-her-career-is-so-amazing/ MEMPHIS, Tenn.— On May 9th, The Blues Foundation will celebrate the 39th class of Blues Hall of Fame inductees in a ceremony taking place at the Halloran Centre for the Performing Arts and Education in Memphis, Tennessee. This year, there will be 13 illustrious honorees, representing all five of the Hall of Fame’s categories: Performers, Non-Performing Individuals, Classic of Blues Literature, Classic of Blues Recording (Song) and Classic of Blues Recording (A]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/39th-blues-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced/Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/39th-blues-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced/ Since the mid-1960s, Clapton has left us all pondering on what the true meaning behind his often ambiguous songs may be. Ever wondered what Clapton was going on about in “Badge”? Or who the woman with the “long blonde hair” was in “Wonderful Tonight”? Well, here are the stories behind nine of EC’s most talked about tracks!
1. Layla (Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs, 1970) – It was Pattie Boyd’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-story-and-meaning-behind-nine-eric-clapton-songs/Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-story-and-meaning-behind-nine-eric-clapton-songs/ The message read, “…no disrespect but it just won’t work for us…For some reason there is a thing about female singers, it must be an old working class thing that still prevails to this day I’m afraid, it sounds crazy but it’s true.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sexism-in-the-music-industry-can-this-still-be-a-thing/Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sexism-in-the-music-industry-can-this-still-be-a-thing/ Blues in Britain? I wanted John’s empirical perspective on how the twain did meet during that critical time in music history. We then talked about John’s new album,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-on-three-for-the-road-and-the-new-trio-format/Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-on-three-for-the-road-and-the-new-trio-format/ Mud Morganfield has done just that. This soft-spoken, humble man has grown into a giant talent in recent years. They Call Me Mud, his latest album out on Severn Records, adds to his well-deserved reputation as one of today&r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mud-morganfields-they-call-me-mud-is-a-winner/Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:45:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mud-morganfields-they-call-me-mud-is-a-winner/ The post Win A “Blues in the Sun” Prize Package: 3 Day Passes, Blues Tees, Music, and more! appeared first on American Blues Scene.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-a-blues-in-the-sun-prize-package-3-day-passes-blues-tees-music-and-more/Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-a-blues-in-the-sun-prize-package-3-day-passes-blues-tees-music-and-more/ Ghalia Vauthier, singer/gu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ghalia-and-mamas-boys-turn-blues-on-its-head-with-let-the-demons-out/Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ghalia-and-mamas-boys-turn-blues-on-its-head-with-let-the-demons-out/ Northern Ireland rockers The Bonnevilles are renowned for both their incendiary live shows and soulful song-writing skills. Something beyond punk blues, the duo takes their sound from the true blues elders, then combining classic rock knowledge with modern day, DIY stylings. The Bonnevilles’ sophomore release via Alive Naturalsound Records, Dirty Photographs will be available on Limited Edition Vinyl, CD, digital and streaming formats March 16th.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/20-questions-with-andrew-mcgibbon-jr-of-the-bonnevilles/Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/20-questions-with-andrew-mcgibbon-jr-of-the-bonnevilles/ MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On May 9, The Blues Foundation will celebrate the 39th class of Blues Hall of Fame inductees in a ceremony taking place at the Halloran Centre for the Performing Arts and Education in Memphis, Tennessee. This year, there will be 13 illustrious honorees, representing all five of the&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/news-the-blues-hall-of-fame-welcomes-roebuck-pops-staples-sam-lay-mamie-smith-georgia-tom-dorsey-and-the-aces-as-its-newest-members-on-may-9-at-the-blues-foundations-39th-annual-induction-ceremony/Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/news-the-blues-hall-of-fame-welcomes-roebuck-pops-staples-sam-lay-mamie-smith-georgia-tom-dorsey-and-the-aces-as-its-newest-members-on-may-9-at-the-blues-foundations-39th-annual-induction-ceremony/ If producing albums for artists including Walter Trout and John Mayall weren’t time consuming enough, Corne pays close attention to what is going on in the world. Then he calls to task the politicians, techno-gurus, and materia]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-corne-calls-the-world-to-task-on-happy-songs-for-the-apocalypse/Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-corne-calls-the-world-to-task-on-happy-songs-for-the-apocalypse/ The history of this recording is long, and storied. A condensed version is that through a series of birthday]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sterling-ball-john-ferraro-amp-jim-cox-are-lsquothe-mutual-admiration-societyrsquo/Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sterling-ball-john-ferraro-amp-jim-cox-are-lsquothe-mutual-admiration-societyrsquo/  
We are pleased to bring you t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-exclusive-stew-cutler-before-i-go/Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-exclusive-stew-cutler-before-i-go/ Historian, author, film producer and director, and Memphis resident Robert Gordon has written a book about his journey of discovery as he was befriending various artists of the city. Among these newfound frie]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robert-gordon-captures-junior-kimbrough-on-memphis-rent-party/Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robert-gordon-captures-junior-kimbrough-on-memphis-rent-party/ Chess Records long ago moved beyond being an American institution and is now the stuff of myth and le]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elise-legrow-reimagines-classics-with-playing-chess/Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:20:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elise-legrow-reimagines-classics-with-playing-chess/ For over five decades this Blues Hall of Famer has been a pioneering musician and entertainer. With any of a myriad of stellar guitarists that included Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Coco Montoya, Walter Trout, Buddy Whittingto]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-comes-alive-on-three-for-the-road/Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-comes-alive-on-three-for-the-road/ Atlanta born and bred, Malone focused on making Slings & Arrows a “Georgia record.” She succeeded in top form, producing the album herself, recording it in the Peach State, and emp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/michelle-malone-fires-lsquoslings-amp-arrowsrsquo-and-strikes-gold/Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/michelle-malone-fires-lsquoslings-amp-arrowsrsquo-and-strikes-gold/ Founded back in 1995, the club has survived lean peri]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/san-franciscos-biscuits-and-blues-serves-up-good-times/Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/san-franciscos-biscuits-and-blues-serves-up-good-times/ We were able to catch up with the very busy Danielle Nicole by phone, early Fat Tuesday morning. She and her brothers had just taken part in the 30th Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise with a Trampled Under Foot reunion performance. Now she was gearing up for the release of her album, Cry No More.
JD Nash for American Blues Scene:
Good morning Danielle. Are you up doing some early Mardi Gras partying?
Danielle Nicole:
Ha ha. No. I actually just got back]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/danielle-nicole-steps-out-of-the-box-and-into-herself/Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/danielle-nicole-steps-out-of-the-box-and-into-herself/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/peter-parceks-everybody-wants-to-go-to-heaven-is-the-real-deal/Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/peter-parceks-everybody-wants-to-go-to-heaven-is-the-real-deal/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rock-and-roll-was-born-at-the-crossroads/Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:05:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rock-and-roll-was-born-at-the-crossroads/ Toronzo Cannon -Photo by Barry Kerzner
Tampa Bay Blues Festival
April, Tampa, Florida
Set right on the bay in beautiful downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, April’s popular Tampa Bay Blues Festival features something for everyone: Sun, fun, and some]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-florida/Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-florida/ Released via Alligator Records on January 12th, 2018 Rough Cut shot straight up the blues charts and has remained near the top since. The album opener, “I Will]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/curtis-salgado-amp-alan-hager-are-too-smooth-for-lsquorough-cutrsquo/Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/curtis-salgado-amp-alan-hager-are-too-smooth-for-lsquorough-cutrsquo/ Released in 2017, Neoprene Fedora is a musical epic. The 16-track album chronicles Burgin’s move to California from Chicago and has mor]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rockin-johnny-burgins-neoprene-fedora-is-a-chi-volution/Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rockin-johnny-burgins-neoprene-fedora-is-a-chi-volution/ It should come as no surprise that the album is complex. The same could be said of Kolassa, who, in addition to his life as a blues singer, is a pharmaceutical marketer, moving from his PhD in 1995 into teaching, and then into]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mick-kolassas-double-standards-is-full-of-surprises/Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:45:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mick-kolassas-double-standards-is-full-of-surprises/ Both Sides of the Sky is intended as the final installment in the recent album trilogy that includes 2010’s Valleys of Neptune, and 2013’s People, Hell and Angels. The trilogy is meant to show]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-jimi-hendrix-album-both-sides-of-the-sky-out-march-9th/Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-jimi-hendrix-album-both-sides-of-the-sky-out-march-9th/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-margolin-is-still-rolling-and-loving-every-minute-of-it/Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:47:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-margolin-is-still-rolling-and-loving-every-minute-of-it/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-margolin-is-steady-rolling-and-loving-every-minute-of-it/Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:47:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-margolin-is-steady-rolling-and-loving-every-minute-of-it/ A 30-year blues veteran, Moss is now switching gears without a clutch. Just over a year ago, he brought long time friend, and harmonica wizard, Dennis Gruenling into t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-nick-moss-band-the-high-cost-of-low-living/Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-nick-moss-band-the-high-cost-of-low-living/ Wynne, AR — John William “Sunshine” Sonny Payne died last night, having recently suffered a stroke. Payne was 92.
Referred to as The Godfather of the King Biscuit Blues Festival, Payne broadcast the King Biscuit Time radio show on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas from its inception in 1951. Blues great B.B. King listened to Payne on his lunch break when he w]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/longtime-host-of-king-biscuit-time-sunshine-sonny-payne-dead-at-92/Sun, 11 Feb 2018 01:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/longtime-host-of-king-biscuit-time-sunshine-sonny-payne-dead-at-92/ Founder, and Camp Director, Brett Champlin, promises there’s nothing else like Chicago Blues Camp anywhere. From June 3rd, through June 8th, campers age 21 and over attend classes in either intermediate or advanced blues guitar, blues bass, or blues harp. Classes]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/summer-camp-chicago-blues-style/Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/summer-camp-chicago-blues-style/ Valerie June hears voices.
Sometimes it’s a young female voice singing. Other times it’s a child’s voice. Or a gospel song she may have heard in church. Often, she wonders if it’s something she’s heard before or did it just emerge from her own mind. If it did, it often comes to her complete with melody and lyrics. Then, she has to decide what to do with this gift. Sometimes the gift is so powerful it takes her and certain listeners]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/valerie-june-is-connected/Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/valerie-june-is-connected/ Soulful blues songstress Annika Chambers has led an interesting life. Chambers started out singing in Gospel choirs, served two enlistments in the US Army, and spent some time in jail. Today, she’s nominated for the Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female), for the second time, at the upcoming Blues Music Awards. She has two incredible albums under her belt and is working on a third. Festivals world-wide scramble to get Chambers on their line-up.
We recently caught Cham]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/annika-chambers-coming-out-on-top/Thu, 08 Feb 2018 21:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/annika-chambers-coming-out-on-top/ Rediscovered and or newly uncovered music is always a welcome treat, and The Avant Garde Recordings by Reverend Gary Davis is no exception.
As it turns out, Davis was recorded at the famo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-exclusive-unreleased-reverend-gary-davis-samson-and-delilah/Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:43:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-exclusive-unreleased-reverend-gary-davis-samson-and-delilah/ SpaceX, founded and nurtured by Elon Musk, launched the Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Goals for mission success included a flawless launch, proper separation of the two side rockets and the main rocket, and their safe landing back on Ea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rocket-roadster-and-bowie-go-to-space/Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:19:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rocket-roadster-and-bowie-go-to-space/ This is not to say The Luckiest Man doesn’t feature lots of grea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ronnie-earl-is-the-luckiest-man/Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:16:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ronnie-earl-is-the-luckiest-man/ The post Enter Our Muddy Waters 105th Birthday Bash Giveaway! appeared first on American Blues Scene.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/enter-our-muddy-waters-105th-birthday-bash-giveaway/Sun, 04 Feb 2018 18:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/enter-our-muddy-waters-105th-birthday-bash-giveaway/ Help American Blues Scene petition Google to officially create a Muddy Waters Google Doodle on April 4th — Muddy’s birthday! See Instructions Below!
Google.com routinely alters its logo, usually for one day, to commemorate an act, birthday, or event of cultural impact and historical significance. This is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/help-petition-google-to-make-a-muddy-waters-google-doodle/Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:59:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/help-petition-google-to-make-a-muddy-waters-google-doodle/ Born in New Jersey, Arielle was raised in California and Hawaii, and now makes her home in Austin, Texas. She began singing at age five, and received her first guitar at 10. Since then she earned a degree from the Musician&rsqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/arielles-mind-lion-touched-our-gypsy-soul/Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/arielles-mind-lion-touched-our-gypsy-soul/ Popa Chubby occasionally veers into those kinds of pure moments on Two Dogs, the singer/guitarist’s latest album. Interestingly, these moments occur]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/popa-chubbys-two-dogs-delivers-on-guitar/Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/popa-chubbys-two-dogs-delivers-on-guitar/ Valens, Richardson, and Holly had just performed at the Surf Ballroom as part of the “Winter Dance Party” tour through the Midwest United States.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-is-the-day-the-music-died-concert-goer-recalls-buddy-hollys-last-show/Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-is-the-day-the-music-died-concert-goer-recalls-buddy-hollys-last-show/ “I could start workin’ with B. B. tomorrow if I want to making more money than I’m making now and less work,” he told me in 2008. “I ain’t got to drive my truck. I ain’t got to worry about getting to the gig, getting an itinerary. Be your own Mastercard with the name o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eddie-shaw-dead-at-80/Wed, 31 Jan 2018 01:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eddie-shaw-dead-at-80/ Jimi Hendrix paid his dues on the Chitlin’ Circuit by the time Linda Keith saw him play at a club in New York City. She brought him to the attention of several managers including Chas Chandler, former bassist for the Animals. Chandler li]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/when-eric-clapton-met-jimi-hendrix-and-the-gift-that-was-never-received/Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/when-eric-clapton-met-jimi-hendrix-and-the-gift-that-was-never-received/ Mammoth Festival of Beers & Bluesapalooza
August, Mammoth Lakes, California
Mammoth Festival of Beers & Bluesapalooza is sponsored by the Mammoth Brewing Company
There is something incredible brewing in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-california/Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-california/ The New Orleans Times-Picayune, via nola.com reported this morning that Mac Rebennack, better known to the world as Dr. John is taking a break from the road.
Dr. John has been a traveling blues, jazz, and rock n roll fixture for over six decades. Now 77 years old, he’s recently cancelled scheduled performances at Tipitina’s, Florida Jazz and Blues Jam, and most recently, the 2018 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
T]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dr-john-cancels-concerts-enjoying-a-well-earned-break/Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dr-john-cancels-concerts-enjoying-a-well-earned-break/ Support the artists by buying their music! You can also support BluesMusicFan Radio by clicking on the links below, which will take you to Amazon.com. We get a small commission on the sale, and it all adds up!]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-music-uploaded/Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-music-uploaded/ Well, blues lovers, fear not; the solution to your problem has arrived. The National Blues Museum is hosting a “Deep Blues Experience: Ride Down the Blues Highway.” This two-day all-inclusive fun-filled “Deep Blues” trip to Memphis]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/are-you-ready-to-ride-down-the-blues-highway/Sat, 27 Jan 2018 23:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/are-you-ready-to-ride-down-the-blues-highway/ Since the age of 12 Danielle Nicole has proven her status time and again. Her family band, Trampled Under Foot, fast became a headlining act because due to their talent a lot of headliners couldn’t fol]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/danielle-nicole-continues-to-evolve-with-cry-no-more/Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/danielle-nicole-continues-to-evolve-with-cry-no-more/ At just 13 years old, it became apparent that Bernard Allison was going to be a force to be reckoned with when his father, Luther Allison, heard him play with his own “Love Me Mama” note-for-note. Impressed, the elder Allison told him, “Tonight you’re gonna record with me.”
On the road with his father, he’d met Muddy Waters, Hound Dog Taylor and Albert King, and many more of his heroes. Just a week out of high school he joined Koko Taylor&rs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-let-it-go-by-bernard-allison/Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-let-it-go-by-bernard-allison/ Spirit of Kansas Blues Festival
July 4th, Topeka, Kansas
Ori Naftaly of Southern Avenue on stage at Spirit of Kansas Blues Festival Photo: JD Nash
Smack dab in the middle of the country, they know how to celebrate Independence Day. Fo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-kansas/Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-kansas/ Born Betty Jo Haskins, Bettye LaVette will celebrate her 72nd birthday a few days from now on January 29th. She has been singing professionally since she was 16 years old. Up until relatively recently, she had achieved only moderate levels of success. Not counting compilations, she has released nine albums and numerous singles. Learning to tap dance, LaVette subsequently joined the touring company of the Toni Award-winning Broadway musical, “Bu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bettye-lavette-star-and-so-much-more/Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bettye-lavette-star-and-so-much-more/ Artur Menezes, Daniel Eriksen, Fuzzy Jeffries, and Jontavious Willis also triumph over the nearly 250 acts competing in the Blues Foundation’s prestigious event.Photo by Roger StephensonPhoto by Larry Hsia MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The harmonica wizard from Coralville, Iowa, a brassy blues band out of Houston, a Brazil-born guitar master]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/news-winners-of-international-blues-challenge-announced-kevin-bf-burt-the-keeshea-pratt-band-and-more/Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/news-winners-of-international-blues-challenge-announced-kevin-bf-burt-the-keeshea-pratt-band-and-more/ Beth Hart celebrates her 46th birthday tomorrow. She’s been nominated for a GRAMMY Award and a Blues Music Award. Her records sell like hotcakes and her fan base grows larger with each passing day. She has collaborated with Deep Purple, Slash, and Joe Bonamassa. Her performance of “I’d Rather Go Blind” with Jeff Beck in December 2012 at the Kennedy Center Honors for honoree Buddy Guy brought down the house.
The Season 8 premiere episode of Public Tele]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-jazz-man-by-beth-hart/Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-jazz-man-by-beth-hart/ Jane Lee Hooker accepts the challenge head-on with Spiritus, their sophomore album, that while rooted in blues and blues-rock, also pushes boundaries with less traditional s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jane-lee-hookers-spiritus-pushes-boundaries/Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:19:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jane-lee-hookers-spiritus-pushes-boundaries/  
Best Band
Winner – Keesha Pratt Band – Houston Blues Society2nd place – Fuzzy Jeffries &a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/international-blues-challenge-2018-winners/Sun, 21 Jan 2018 03:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/international-blues-challenge-2018-winners/  
International Blues Challenge Finals – Noon – Orpheum TheatreHere are the Finalists:
Solo/Duo:Felix SlimDaniel Eriksen2BluBrian Keith WalenKevin “B.F.” BurtSweet N SaltyRobert “Lefty Preacher” SampsonSam Joyner
Bands:Artur MenezesFuzzy Jeffries and the Kings of MemphisBetta Blues SocietyTee Dee YoungThe Keeshea Pratt Band]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-saturday-january-20th/Sat, 20 Jan 2018 16:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-saturday-january-20th/ In early October last year after Tom Petty had been found unresponsive in his Malibu home, his manager Tony Dimitriades had said he’d suffered cardiac arrest and had been rushed to the hospital. Petty could not be revived and was put on life-support. His death certificate, issued soon after his passing listed the cause of death as “deferred,” pending autopsy.
Petty had just completed touring with his band, The Heartbreakers and was looking forward to]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/coroner-tom-petty-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose/Sat, 20 Jan 2018 07:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/coroner-tom-petty-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose/ The story behind Janis Joplin’s 1964 Porsche is as eclectic as her in-your-face music and clothing. At a time when rock stars were dolling out big money for their cars, Joplin paid just $3,500 for a 1964 Porsche 356 C Cabriolet from the Beverly Hills dealer Estes-Zipper. When she bought the car, it was a dull Dolphin Grey, one of nine colors available at the time. Joplin would soon change that.
Joplin’s roadi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-happened-to-janis-joplins-porsche/Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-happened-to-janis-joplins-porsche/ Managing Child Entertainers with Fernando Jones –
10:00 am  Hard Rock Cafe
Keeping the Blues Alive Awards Luncheon –
11:00 am  Doubletree Hotel – Grand Ballroom
Blind Raccoon & Nola Blue Showcase –
Noon – Purple Haze Night Club
Keynote Panel of The International Blues Challenge: “AAB: Addiction, Abuse, and the Blue]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-friday-january-19th/Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-friday-january-19th/ Several showcases begin at 11:30 am including The Great Canadian Polar Bear Blues Showcase, The Galaxie Agency Showcase, Women in Blues (WiB) Showcase, and at noon, the Blind Raccoon & Nola Blue Showcase kicks off.
At 1:00 pm there will be a presentation of The Official Documentary of the IBC – Shake ‘Em on Down: The Blues]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-thursday-january-18th/Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-thursday-january-18th/ There will be a Blues Foundation Board of Directors Meeting at 07:30 am. The Pacific Northwest Showcase begins at 11:00 am, and the Roots and Blues Showcase presented by Blind Raccoon begins at noon.
Also today, there will be a Health Fair and Screenings event from noon through 2:30 pm. IBC Act Check-In also takes place from noon until 2:30 pm.Other highlights include an Open 12 Step Me]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-wednesday-january-17th/Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-wednesday-january-17th/ The big winner of the evening was Colin James, who took home awards for Electric Act of the Year, Recording/Producer of the Year and Guitarist of the Year. Several new faces were honoured with awards including multiple nominee Hamilton’s Harrison Kennedy&n]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/colin-james-triumphs-at-the-maple-blues-awards/Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/colin-james-triumphs-at-the-maple-blues-awards/ And so The Blues Foundation felt it a fitting place to begin the IBC as we welcome artists from around the world to perform on the night before The Challenge officially begins.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-tuesday-january-16th/Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:20:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2018-schedule-tuesday-january-16th/ At a moment in time when brotherly love seems distant, if not forgotten, the feature film The Thrill Is On delivers a powerful message of unity and equality, based on a friendship that was driven by love, kindness and generosity.
The film is based on a true story and depicts the journey of a young musician, Michael Zanetis, who travels from the heartland of America to the dream laden streets of Hollywood in pursuit of his destiny. In 1980 he attends a B.B. King]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/filming-to-begin-with-wendell-pierce-as-bb-king-in-the-thrill-is-on/Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/filming-to-begin-with-wendell-pierce-as-bb-king-in-the-thrill-is-on/ Joe Satriani’s G3 tour kicked off Thursday night, January 11th at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. Since Satriani’s G3 tours began over twenty years ago, the legendary guitar player has invited two other highly regarded rock and blues style guitarists. This year’s lineup includes G3 veteran John Petrucci of Dream Theater and first-timer, Phil Collen of Def Leppard. Designed as a showcase for guitar solos and general ax wizardry, the Moore Theatre came aliv]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-satrianis-2018-g3-tour-kickoff-delivers/Sun, 14 Jan 2018 05:57:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-satrianis-2018-g3-tour-kickoff-delivers/ Juke Joint Festival
April, Clarksdale, Mississippi
A stage in front of Miss Dell’s General Store on Delta Avenue
The unofficial kickoff to Festival season happens where American Music first exploded: Clarksdale, Missis]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-mississippi/Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-mississippi/ Roots n Blues n BBQ
September, Columbia, Missouri
Charles Bradley at Roots n Blues n BBQ. Photo by Matt Marshall
If there’s ever a best music festival list, Roots n Blues n BBQ needs to top it. Why? The art, the setting, the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-missouri/Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-top-five-best-blues-festivals-in-missouri/ Speaking on the “Steve Wright in the Afternoon” show on BBC Radio 2,
Clapton allowed “I mean, I’m going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus, my hands just about work. I mean, I’m hoping that people will come along and see me just because, or maybe more than because I’m a curiosity. I know that is part of it. It’s amazing t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-clapton-says-hes-going-deaf/Sat, 13 Jan 2018 08:12:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-clapton-says-hes-going-deaf/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clapton-asserts-hes-going-deaf/Sat, 13 Jan 2018 08:12:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clapton-asserts-hes-going-deaf/ On January 8th, Denise LaSalle died, surrounded by family, at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 78. LaSalle had been suffering from heart problems for some time, and complications from a fall saw the amputation of her right leg in October. None of these things slowed her down a bit.
Denise LaSalle was born Ora Denise Allen on July 16th, 1939. The youngest of eight children, her sharecropper family worked the fields in and around Leflore count]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/remembering-blues-queen-denise-lasalle/Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:57:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/remembering-blues-queen-denise-lasalle/ Slowhand. God. The Greatest. These are just a few nicknames fans have bestowed upon blues guitarist Eric Clapton. Of all of these, the british rock icon is most often referred to as “Slowhand.” But why is Eric Clapton called “Slowhand”?
Explanations vary. One has Clapton telling biographer Ray Coleman that “Slowhand” was an ironic, tongue-in-cheek allusion to Clapton’s ability to play incredibly fast. “My nickn]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-story-behind-why-eric-clapton-is-called-slowhand/Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-story-behind-why-eric-clapton-is-called-slowhand/ For decades, The Rolling Stones have been world renowned for their edgy licks, cult following, and iconic Hot Lips logo.
Interestingly, the vision for the logo came from the mind of Mick Jagger himself — but it was his mouth that truly created the inspiration for the artwork.
In 1969, Mick Jagger reached out to London’s Royal College of Art to employ wo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hinduism-jagger-and-hot-lips-the-story-behind-the-rolling-stones-tongue-and-lips-logo/Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hinduism-jagger-and-hot-lips-the-story-behind-the-rolling-stones-tongue-and-lips-logo/ And so, The Blues Foundation felt it a fitting place to begin the IBC as we welcome artists from around the world to perform on the night before The Challenge officially be]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/34th-ibc-kicks-off-january-16th/Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/34th-ibc-kicks-off-january-16th/ This year, two additional award categories were added, bringing the total to 26. The two new categories are Instrumentalist – Vocals, and Rock Blues Artist. Voting begins January 23rd and ends on March 1st. V]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2018-blues-music-award-nominees-announced/Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2018-blues-music-award-nominees-announced/ Winners will be announced at the Blues Foundation’s Gala Ceremony on May 10th In Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The nominees for the 39th Annual Blues Music Awards represent a prestigious collection of acclaimed performers and rising stars that reflect the breadth and div]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-2018-blues-music-award-nominees-announced-taj-mahal-mavis-staples-keb-mo-n-mississippi-allstars-among-nominees/Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-2018-blues-music-award-nominees-announced-taj-mahal-mavis-staples-keb-mo-n-mississippi-allstars-among-nominees/ Patrick Maraist is the sole managing member of Music Jam Productions, LLC. The organization that sponsors the Florida Jazz and Blues Jam, also puts on several others in South Florida. We caught up with this very busy man, and got the low-down on his upcoming jam]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/keeping-live-music-alive-at-the-florida-jazz-and-blues-jam-2018/Fri, 05 Jan 2018 20:36:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/keeping-live-music-alive-at-the-florida-jazz-and-blues-jam-2018/ Strange Angels: In Flight With Elmore James is scheduled for release on January 26th, to coincide with the Elmore James Centennial celebration. Chronic heart]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elmore-james-music-takes-flight-again-via-all-star-tribute-album/Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elmore-james-music-takes-flight-again-via-all-star-tribute-album/ Muscle Shoals, AL – Rick Hall, known as the “Father of Muscle Shoals Music” has died. Hall was 85 years old.
Roe Erister “Rick” Hall, is familiar to millions as the owner and proprietor of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, which produced hit recordings for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, James and Bobby Purify, Clarence Carter, and more. Duane Allman was a session guitarist at the studios for a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rick-hall-dead-at-85/Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:19:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rick-hall-dead-at-85/ The album, At Folsom Prison revitalized Cash’s career. But why did Johnny Cash decide to play two live shows at Folsom Prison?
The song that started the prison obsession for Johnny Cash was his own “Folsom Prison Blues.” Written in 1953 while Cash was serving in Germany with the US Air Force, it was inspired by the 1951 film, Ins]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-did-why-did-johnny-cash-play-at-folsom-prison-ten-facts-about-at-folsom-prison/Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-did-why-did-johnny-cash-play-at-folsom-prison-ten-facts-about-at-folsom-prison/ The album, At Folsom Prison revitalized Cash’s career. But why did Johnny Cash decide to play two live shows at Folsom Prison?
The song that started the prison obsession for Johnny Cash was his own “Folsom Prison Blues.” Written in 1953 while Cash was serving in Germany with the US Air Force, it was inspired by the 1951 film, Ins]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-did-johnny-cash-play-at-folsom-prison-ten-facts-about-at-folsom-prison/Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-did-johnny-cash-play-at-folsom-prison-ten-facts-about-at-folsom-prison/ Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has been awarded a knighthood as part of Queen Elizabeth’s annual New Year’s Honours. The 77 year old Starr, whose real name is Richard Starkey follows in the footsteps of his former Beatles bandmate Sir Paul McCartney, who was himself knighted 1997.
Starr, along with the rest of the Beatles had been a recipient of the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1965.
Commenting on his knight]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ringo-starr-awarded-knighthood/Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ringo-starr-awarded-knighthood/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesmusicfan-radios-top-20-blues-albums-of-2017/Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesmusicfan-radios-top-20-blues-albums-of-2017/ The post Win Buddy Guy 2018 Residency Show Tickets! appeared first on American Blues Scene.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-buddy-guy-2018-residency-show-tickets/Fri, 29 Dec 2017 18:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-buddy-guy-2018-residency-show-tickets/ We’re sharing more of our favorites with you, our readers. We hope you’ll enjoy them now, and in the future. Take a listen to our list…
1. Issued on Ruf Records in 2007, Canned Heat’s Christmas Album contains collaborations with The Chipmunks, Dr. John, and on this cut, Eric Clapton]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-more-best-christmas-songs-blues-soul-rock-and-roll/Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-more-best-christmas-songs-blues-soul-rock-and-roll/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sonny-charles-shares-30-years-of-backtrack-blues-band/Sat, 23 Dec 2017 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sonny-charles-shares-30-years-of-backtrack-blues-band/ We thought we would share our favorites with you, our readers. If some of these are new to you, we’re sure they’ll soon be some of your favorites too. Here they are!
1. Trust the Godfather of Soul to bring us all a “Soulful Christmas.” The song is from the album of the sa]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-best-christmas-songs-blues-soul-rock-and-roll/Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-best-christmas-songs-blues-soul-rock-and-roll/ Finley’s debut album on Easy Eye Sound, Goin’ Platinum, was released on December 8th. Recorded in Nashville with a band made up of drummer Gene Chrisman (E]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robert-finley-is-a-man-on-a-blues-mission/Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/robert-finley-is-a-man-on-a-blues-mission/ Page said in an interview with Academy of Achievement that unreleased Led Zeppelin material would be released in 2018 “for sure.”
Page also said, “There’ll be Led Zeppelin product coming out, for sure, that people haven’t heard, because I’m working on that. Next year will be the 50th year, so there’s all manner]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jimmy-page-says-unheard-led-zeppelin-to-be-released-in-2018/Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:48:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jimmy-page-says-unheard-led-zeppelin-to-be-released-in-2018/ Born in Sabougla, Mississippi in 1932, Welch began playing guitar in at 13 and by 15 he was playing publicly. He also played harmonica and the fiddle. At one point, Welch was invited to audition for B.B. King but did not go because he could not afford traveling to Memphis.
Welch played blues until 1975 when he began to play gospel with the Sabougla Voices and a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/leo-bud-welch-dead-at-85/Wed, 20 Dec 2017 05:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/leo-bud-welch-dead-at-85/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guy-helps-fight-cancer-and-gives-the-next-generation-a-hand-up/Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guy-helps-fight-cancer-and-gives-the-next-generation-a-hand-up/ Elvis Presley
The Mississippi born truck driver recorded “That’s All Right” on July 5th, 1954 at Sun Studios in Memphis. Fifty y]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/who-really-invented-rock-and-roll/Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/who-really-invented-rock-and-roll/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-steven-van-zandt-and-john-oates-join-musicians-and-fans-from-around-the-globe-for-the-34th-international-blues-challenge/Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/little-steven-van-zandt-and-john-oates-join-musicians-and-fans-from-around-the-globe-for-the-34th-international-blues-challenge/ In the interim, White hasn’t slowed his roll at all. He’s opened and established a vinyl pressing plant in his hometown of Detroit, and participated in the making of the T-Bone Burnett and Robert Redford roots documentary project American Epic for PBS. He produced P]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-jack-white-album-boarding-house-reach-on-the-way/Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-jack-white-album-boarding-house-reach-on-the-way/ Photo by Roland GodefroyOriginally 19 nominees were announced in early October, with fan voting closing on Dec]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-class-of-2018-announced/Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-class-of-2018-announced/ Over the course of his career he has received 17 Blues Music Awards, and been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2006. He became the first blues artist to perform in China in 2007, and since has]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bobby-rush-on-fighting-cancer-his-music-buddy-guy-and-more/Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bobby-rush-on-fighting-cancer-his-music-buddy-guy-and-more/ Muddy Waters bought his first guitar at the age of 17 — a Stella acoustic that he bought for $2.50 from the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. This Stella was the guitar on which he taught himself to play by listening to Robert John]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-guitars-did-muddy-waters-play/Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-guitars-did-muddy-waters-play/ B.B. King explained his love for Lucille in his song “Lucille” on the 1968 album of the same name. He tells us, “I’m very crazy about Lucille. Lucille took me from the plantation; you might say, brought me fame.”
King had many Lucilles, but his first was on a c]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-was-bb-kings-guitar-named-lucille/Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:57:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-was-bb-kings-guitar-named-lucille/ The incredible backstory of the 5]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-reverend-shawn-amos-breaks-it-down-and-then-some/Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-reverend-shawn-amos-breaks-it-down-and-then-some/ The final volume in a trilogy from the Hendrix archives, Both Sides of the Sky focuses on music that was recorded between 1968 and Hendrix’s death in 1970. The two previous releases in the series were Valleys of Neptune (2010), and People, Hell and Angels (2013).
Most of Both Sides]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-jimi-hendrix-album-drops-next-year-with-10-previously-unheard-tracks/Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-jimi-hendrix-album-drops-next-year-with-10-previously-unheard-tracks/ The announcement came on Tuesday, December 5th, via the club’s email newsletter, as well as a statement on the club’s Facebook page. “After 10+ years of presenting great ‘Live’ music we have decided to ‘wrap it up’ at the end of March 2018,” the statem]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/callahans-music-hall-will-call-it-quits-in-march/Thu, 07 Dec 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/callahans-music-hall-will-call-it-quits-in-march/ The fans have made their feelings known and they want to see classic rock artists admitted to the Rock Hall. Of course, they have been given a little bit more of a voice in who is inducted with the fan vote. According to the RRHOF site, “Each of the Fan Vote win]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bon-jovi-tops-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-fan-vote/Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bon-jovi-tops-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-fan-vote/ During the November]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jr-rhodes-tells-her-story-with-i-am/Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jr-rhodes-tells-her-story-with-i-am/ Instruments to be auctioned include a 1963 Jimi Hendrix Fender Stratocaster, and a Guild guitar covered in stickers that he played at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival. A truly iconic instrument, Prince‘s custom gold “Love Symbol” guitar is also up for bids.
Also included at the auction is a 1962]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hendrix-dylan-prince-guitars-among-those-set-for-auction/Thu, 30 Nov 2017 21:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hendrix-dylan-prince-guitars-among-those-set-for-auction/ Love Is an Army’s dozen songs reverberate with the character of the enduring Memphi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-janiva-magness-love-is-an-army-on-the-way/Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-janiva-magness-love-is-an-army-on-the-way/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elmore-james-100th-anniversary-celebrated-with-all-star-tribute-album/Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elmore-james-100th-anniversary-celebrated-with-all-star-tribute-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/link-wrays-son-of-rumble-to-be-released-on-7-vinyl/Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/link-wrays-son-of-rumble-to-be-released-on-7-vinyl/  
Walker had been busy of late, opening the Wonderlight City juke-joint outside Clarksdale, Mississi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-legend-robert-bilbo-walker-dead-at-80/Wed, 29 Nov 2017 21:37:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-legend-robert-bilbo-walker-dead-at-80/ The role that streaming plays in dispersing music has become glaringly apparent. Along with that, R&B and hip-hop are currently the accessed music of choice, even more so than rock, and pop (as stated in a published report by Nielsen this summer).
Drake has shown that streaming is not only viable but essential to gaining exposure.
Accordi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2018-grammy-awards-nominees-announced/Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2018-grammy-awards-nominees-announced/ Born in extreme poverty in 1925 rural Mississippi, a teenaged Riley King fled to Memphis after breaking the smokestack on his employer’s tractor — an accident which he la]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-is-the-meaning-of-bb-in-bb-kings-name/Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/what-is-the-meaning-of-bb-in-bb-kings-name/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-bonamassa-live-at-the-fox-theater-in-detroit/Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-bonamassa-live-at-the-fox-theater-in-detroit/ Born Alfred Charles Merrick in Boothville, Louisiana, his family moved to the Big Easy when Rockie was j]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rockie-charles-born-for-you-is-splendid-new-orleans-soul/Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rockie-charles-born-for-you-is-splendid-new-orleans-soul/ In fact, there were usually 40 to 50 people who made up the James Brown Revue, performing over 300 shows per year. But why would James Brown need two drummers?
Known as “double drumming,” the practice of having two drummers became very popular in both jazz, and rock and roll. This is not to be confused with &ldqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-did-james-brown-have-two-drummers-and-what-bands-have-double-drums/Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-did-james-brown-have-two-drummers-and-what-bands-have-double-drums/ The She Rocks Awards Honorees for 2018 have been announced by the Women’s International Music Network (the WiMN), and include performers and others from all corners of the music industry. The awards seek to acknowledge the achievement]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2018-she-rocks-awards-recipients-announced/Sat, 25 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2018-she-rocks-awards-recipients-announced/ Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Lopez first held a guitar at the age of five. He owned his first axe at age eight. When he was 12 he moved with his family to Dallas, Texas where the local Deep Ellum influence took hold. The]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lance-lopez-signs-to-provoguemascot-label-group/Fri, 24 Nov 2017 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lance-lopez-signs-to-provoguemascot-label-group/ A man of many parts, Loren not only sings on his new EP, Selections From Leisurely, but also wrote the songs, recorded and mixed the tracks in his own studio,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-leisurely-chat-with-soul-crooner-paul-loren/Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-leisurely-chat-with-soul-crooner-paul-loren/ While there are always debates regarding the origin, one thing is for certain. Thanks]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-songs-about-food-for-thanksgiving-and-one-truly-thankful-one/Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-songs-about-food-for-thanksgiving-and-one-truly-thankful-one/ We cast a wide net and gathered ten different “Rain” songs from across a wide range of styles and genres. So, without further ado, we present o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-songs-about-rain/Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-songs-about-rain/ We cast a wide net and gathered ten different “Rain” songs from across a wide range of styles and genres. So, without further ado, we present o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-rain-songs-good-anytime/Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-rain-songs-good-anytime/ “I think a lot of albums are made in reaction to the one that came directly be]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sonny-smith-announces-new-album-rod-for-your-love/Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sonny-smith-announces-new-album-rod-for-your-love/ The page went on to say, “Renowned for his musical prowess Malcolm was a songwriter, guitarist, performer, producer a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/acdc-co-founder-malcolm-young-dead-at-64/Sun, 19 Nov 2017 03:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/acdc-co-founder-malcolm-young-dead-at-64/ Moss is a bona fide bluesman with 12 solo releases to his credit. These range from straight ahead Chi-Town blues to experimental blues-rock. T]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alligator-records-signs-the-nick-moss-band-featuring-dennis-gruenling/Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alligator-records-signs-the-nick-moss-band-featuring-dennis-gruenling/ TTB, formed by husband and wife, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, might have assembled one of the best touring jam bands ever. The chemistry between these twelve musicians is amazing. The band fed off each other throughout the even]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-tedeschi-trucks-band-fires-up-the-orpheum-theatre/Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-tedeschi-trucks-band-fires-up-the-orpheum-theatre/ Rawls’ latest offering is Waiting for The Train, a ten-track dip into]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/johnny-rawls-has-us-waiting-for-the-train/Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/johnny-rawls-has-us-waiting-for-the-train/ The launch takes place on Thursday, November 16th, beginning at 5:30 PM. Mayfield is a lifelong resident of the Mississippi Delta, and an award-winning journalist. She has been photographing blues and gospel musicians in various venues for decades. Her collections have been exhibited in museums across the United S]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/panny-flautt-mayfield-launches-live-from-the-mississippi-delta-at-turnrow-event/Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/panny-flautt-mayfield-launches-live-from-the-mississippi-delta-at-turnrow-event/ As always, the IBC is more than just a competition. The event will host a variety of classes, showcases, networking opportunities, seminars, and films.
In conjunction with the 2018 International Blues Challenge, The Blues Foundation will honor 12 individuals and organizations with its 2018 Keeping the Blues Alive]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2018-kba-award-recipients-announced/Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2018-kba-award-recipients-announced/ A group of special guests will be on]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lilrsquo-ed-amp-the-blues-imperials-celebrate-30th-anniversary/Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lilrsquo-ed-amp-the-blues-imperials-celebrate-30th-anniversary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-blues-foundation-announces-2018-keeping-the-blues-alive-award-recipients/Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-blues-foundation-announces-2018-keeping-the-blues-alive-award-recipients/ Recorded on January 6th, 2017 at the Palladium Theatre in their hometown of St. Petersburg, Make My Home in Florida captures the excitement of a magical night of blues music. Backtrack Blues Band delivered a strong mix of both blues classics and original songs. Borrowing from T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Little Walter,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/backtrack-blues-band-set-to-release-new-live-cddvd/Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/backtrack-blues-band-set-to-release-new-live-cddvd/ Did we say two paths? Our bad. What if there is a third option? If you are Adrian Vandenberg, there are always options and opportunities to expl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/adrian-vandenberg-loves-music-and-making-quality-records/Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/adrian-vandenberg-loves-music-and-making-quality-records/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/debra-devi-a-wild-little-girl-in-a-mans-world/Thu, 09 Nov 2017 19:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/debra-devi-a-wild-little-girl-in-a-mans-world/ Jack is joined by many guests on the album, including Janiva Magness. Magness has been nominated for 26]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/video-world-premiere-ldquosoul-searchinrdquo-by-jack-tempchin-with-janiva-magness/Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/video-world-premiere-ldquosoul-searchinrdquo-by-jack-tempchin-with-janiva-magness/ Berns had previously produced several tracks for Morrison’s band Them, and wrote the hit, “Here Comes the Night.” A gifted songwriter, Berns was also an independent producer who worked with myriad labels. He now owned Bang Re]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/who-was-van-morrisons-brown-eyed-girl/Thu, 09 Nov 2017 03:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/who-was-van-morrisons-brown-eyed-girl/ American IDEA, the brand’s new “mid-market” chain, will initially build three hotels in Mississippi.
In Cleveland, Mississippi, population 12,000, a new four-star Scion hotel with 100 rooms will be built on a 17-acre site, and will eventually boast resort level comforts including a spa, pool,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/trump-sons-chase-the-blues-with-hotels-in-the-mississippi-delta/Thu, 09 Nov 2017 02:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/trump-sons-chase-the-blues-with-hotels-in-the-mississippi-delta/ Fish doesn’t stay in one place sonically either. She’s rounded the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/samantha-fish-keeps-moving-on-with-belle-of-the-west/Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:16:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/samantha-fish-keeps-moving-on-with-belle-of-the-west/ Tempchin knew Glenn Frey ten years before they even wrote their first song together. He would go on to write several songs with Frey including “You Belong to the City,” “Smuggler’s Blues,” “The One You Love,” “I Found Somebody,” and “True Love.” He himself wro]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jack-tempchin-writes-the-songs-that-we-sing/Tue, 07 Nov 2017 21:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jack-tempchin-writes-the-songs-that-we-sing/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/duke-robillard-fulfills-a-bucket-list-dream-with-his-dames-of-rhythm/Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/duke-robillard-fulfills-a-bucket-list-dream-with-his-dames-of-rhythm/ Blue Thumb’s expansive musical vision was anthologized on the 1995 label retrospecti]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blue-thumb-records-all-day-thumbsucker-revisited/Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blue-thumb-records-all-day-thumbsucker-revisited/ Auerbach will stay busy!
Auerbach will be busy in the coming weeks, with appearances in November including taping an Au]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dan-auerbach-to-front-easy-eye-sound-revue-tour/Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dan-auerbach-to-front-easy-eye-sound-revue-tour/ Female blues artists are well represented this year in the instrumental categories with nominations for Montreal’s Cecil]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/21st-annual-maple-blues-awards-nominees-announced/Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:32:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/21st-annual-maple-blues-awards-nominees-announced/ The origins of today’s costume and candy fueled holiday stretch far back in the mists of time. But this isn’t a history lesson. Whether or not one celebrates Halloween, most will agree that there always s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ten-perfect-blues-songs-for-halloween-witches-the-devil-and-voodoo-oh-my/Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ten-perfect-blues-songs-for-halloween-witches-the-devil-and-voodoo-oh-my/ Imagine being in a cool, dark, sweaty]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-record-label-and-new-tommy-emmanuel-album/Mon, 30 Oct 2017 21:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-record-label-and-new-tommy-emmanuel-album/ Ru-Jac Records was founded in 1963 by Baltimore promoter Rufus Mitchell, and investo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/omnivore-recordings-acquires-ru-jac-records-plus-world-premiere-release/Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/omnivore-recordings-acquires-ru-jac-records-plus-world-premiere-release/ The blues community first learned that Holman was ill in April 2016 when Tweed Funk announced that Holman had been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma and that he’d begun treatment with chemotherapy. Later, Holman would also receive a Stem Cell transplant and other medical]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tweed-funk-frontman-joseph-smokey-holman-passes/Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:11:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tweed-funk-frontman-joseph-smokey-holman-passes/ Friends and fans alike are encouraged to be on hand and share in the excitement!
Those not yet familiar with the thrilling graphic novel telling of the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/documentary-crew-to-film-at-robert-johnson-book-event-fans-welcome/Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/documentary-crew-to-film-at-robert-johnson-book-event-fans-welcome/ Delbert McClinton has been in the game for well over 50 years and does not appear to be stopping anytime soon. In fact, 2017 has been something of a milepost for the multi-Grammy Award-winning veteran. Well-versed in jazz, blues, roots, and country with even a glimmer of rockabilly for good measure, Delbert could ne]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delbert-mcclinton-is-larger-than-life-and-charming-too/Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delbert-mcclinton-is-larger-than-life-and-charming-too/ Smithsonian Books has published Smithsonian Roc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/smithsonian-rock-and-roll-live-and-unseen-until-now/Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/smithsonian-rock-and-roll-live-and-unseen-until-now/ Born Antoine Domino, Jr. on February 26th, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Fats is one of the venerable pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll. The youngest child of a French Creole family, Domino learned piano from his brother-in-law, jazz guitarist Harrison Verrett. Influenced by artists incl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/fats-domino-dead-at-89/Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/fats-domino-dead-at-89/ On their Facebook page, they refer to their music as “holler]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-ghost-of-paul-revere-hit-their-stride-with-monarch/Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-ghost-of-paul-revere-hit-their-stride-with-monarch/ Recently, the 5 CD set King of the Boogie John Lee Hooker arrived in my mailbox. As I opened the package, I was i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-lee-hooker-king-of-the-boogie-boxed-set-is-satisfying-tribute/Tue, 24 Oct 2017 23:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-lee-hooker-king-of-the-boogie-boxed-set-is-satisfying-tribute/ Just before leaving on tour, we caught up with Castro, at his home. We had a long talk about his hometown, the new album, modern music technology, and much more.
JD for American Blues Scene: So the new album…unbelievable.
Tommy Castro:
Oh man, I’m glad to hear that. I’v]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tommy-castro-from-his-stompin-ground-to-21st-century-tech/Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tommy-castro-from-his-stompin-ground-to-21st-century-tech/ Howlin’ Wolf was born Chester Arthur Burnett in Mississippi in 1910. He moved up to Chicago and over the course of his career he upended music and turned it on its ear in Chicag]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/howlin-at-greaseland-does-howlin-wolf-proud/Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/howlin-at-greaseland-does-howlin-wolf-proud/ Their journey began when blues-rock guitar virtuoso, Joe Bonamassa, fused with legendary frontman/bassist Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath fame, at Guitar Center’s King of the Blues event in Los Angel]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bona-fide-supergroup-black-country-communion-hits-with-bcciv/Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bona-fide-supergroup-black-country-communion-hits-with-bcciv/ The facility located at 45 Lt. George W. Lee Ave has been Gibson’s Memphis home for 18 years. For a mere $17 million you can be the proud owner of this 127,620 square foot behemoth. Fret not though because it also comes with a p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gibson-to-sell-memphis-factory/Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gibson-to-sell-memphis-factory/ So, perhaps you were wondering what’s up with all that lately? BG magazine breaks it down for us:
From late 2013]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/all-blues-all-the-time-buddyguytv-is-back/Fri, 20 Oct 2017 23:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/all-blues-all-the-time-buddyguytv-is-back/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/red-hot-chili-peppers-shake-and-bake-phoenix/Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/red-hot-chili-peppers-shake-and-bake-phoenix/ “Blackie” was sold at auction in 2004 for a whopping $959,500. Another of his guitars sold at the same time, for considerably less. Completed in 1990]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/claptons-heir-to-blackie-guitar-for-sale/Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/claptons-heir-to-blackie-guitar-for-sale/ Born in Georgia and raised in Florida, developed his love of the blues by way of the British Invasion bands, and seeing B.B. King perform. As time went on, he gained a reputation and an exceptional player and a very capable vocalist.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tinsley-ellis-returns-to-alligator-records/Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tinsley-ellis-returns-to-alligator-records/ Finley is the quintessentia]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/latest-release-from-robert-finley-first-on-new-dan-auerbach-label/Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/latest-release-from-robert-finley-first-on-new-dan-auerbach-label/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eilen-jewells-down-hearted-blues-is-understated-elegance/Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eilen-jewells-down-hearted-blues-is-understated-elegance/ These shows are definitely bucket list, once-in-a-lifetime experiences that are treasured by those fortunate enough to be there. This upcoming January promises to be no different. The 81 year old]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guys-2018-residency-lineup-is-out/Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guys-2018-residency-lineup-is-out/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jazz-great-alvin-queen-denied-entry-to-us/Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jazz-great-alvin-queen-denied-entry-to-us/ Recently, he has played the Chicago Blues Festival as well as the Big Blues Bender, and he is no stranger to performing with top-tier talent including Coco Montoya, Debbie Davies, Walter Trout, and so many more.
Gree]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alastair-greenes-dream-train-is-great-ride/Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alastair-greenes-dream-train-is-great-ride/ Padgett is an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cover-me-the-stories-behind-the-greatest-cover-songs-of-all-time/Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cover-me-the-stories-behind-the-greatest-cover-songs-of-all-time/ Then there is something else. Music that happens when piano and horn driven rock ‘n’ roll crashes headl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/king-james-amp-the-special-men-lsquoact-like-you-knowrsquo/Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/king-james-amp-the-special-men-lsquoact-like-you-knowrsquo/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rhiannon-giddens-awarded-2017-macarthur-fellowship/Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rhiannon-giddens-awarded-2017-macarthur-fellowship/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/muddy-waters-debut-album-to-be-reissued/Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/muddy-waters-debut-album-to-be-reissued/ Being a member of the Brooks family has implications and expectations in the tight-knit blues community. High standards are always the order of the day when it comes to conduct, making music, and taking]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/wayne-baker-brooks-does-it-all/Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/wayne-baker-brooks-does-it-all/ Their latest release, Born in Oakland, hit the streets in late June via Mudslide Records. Their seventh album, it keeps]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-wires-keep-west-coast-blues-sound-alive-amp-well/Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-wires-keep-west-coast-blues-sound-alive-amp-well/ “Blues is the music of poor people, and poor people live closer to death than other people do,” Holder admits. “The message of the title track is simple: death and the blues are real. I have a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-mark-porkchop-holders-big-boat/Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-mark-porkchop-holders-big-boat/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/corey-dennison-band-plays-night-after-night/Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/corey-dennison-band-plays-night-after-night/ My love for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers follows me well into teenage years when I find myself compulsively playing “I Need to Know” on repeat, and every other Heartbre]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/remembering-tom-petty/Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/remembering-tom-petty/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/milligan-vaughan-projects-mvp-is-a-winning-debut/Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/milligan-vaughan-projects-mvp-is-a-winning-debut/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-king-biscuit-blues-festival-day-3/Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-king-biscuit-blues-festival-day-3/ The “Deep From the Heart: The One America Appeal Concert” on October 21st at Reed Arena at Texas A&M University will raise funds for The One America Appeal, a hurricane]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/former-presidents-will-help-raise-money-at-hurricane-relief-concert/Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/former-presidents-will-help-raise-money-at-hurricane-relief-concert/ In a one-night-only show, Steve Earle, Steve Forbert, Jackie Green, Anders Osborne, Joan Osborne, and special guest Jason Crosby come together on the Count Basie Theatre stage. The all acoustic singer/songwriter showcase will feature both solo and group performances i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/americana-roots-benefit-concert-coming-to-new-jersey/Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/americana-roots-benefit-concert-coming-to-new-jersey/  
Reba Russell and Tracy Nelson  &]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-king-biscuit-blues-festival-day-2/Sat, 07 Oct 2017 19:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-king-biscuit-blues-festival-day-2/ Formerly known as the Toler-Tucci Band, they’ve been a Florida festival circuit mainstay for years. “Dangerous” Dan Toler was the band’s music]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tucci-mixes-blues-amp-southern-rock-on-lsquooliviarsquo/Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tucci-mixes-blues-amp-southern-rock-on-lsquooliviarsquo/ The first day of King Biscuit, Thursday, has only one stage with music, but it is always a thrilling day, filled with excitement. The first band Mississippi Bigfoot, is full of regional artists. They were followed by Legendary Pacers, (in memory of the late, great Sonny Burgess), a band that has been playing for 60 years out of Newport, AR. Regional artists the Sterling Bi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-king-biscuit-blues-festival-first-full-day/Fri, 06 Oct 2017 18:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-king-biscuit-blues-festival-first-full-day/ Most recently, Moore performed during the “‘Make America Great Again!’ Welcome Celebration”]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/legendary-soul-man-sam-moore-to-release-an-american-patriot/Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/legendary-soul-man-sam-moore-to-release-an-american-patriot/ Anson Funderburgh is recognized     Photo by Marilyn StringerThe jam started out with Josh Parks, who is currently h]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/king-biscuit-blues-festival-opening-jam/Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/king-biscuit-blues-festival-opening-jam/ First time nominees include Eurythmics, Judas Priest, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Kate Bush, Dire Straits, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and the Moody Blues.
Other nominees are the Meters, J. Geils Band, Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode, The Cars, Link Wray, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, MC5, Depeche Mode, LL Cool J, and the Zombies.
Radiohead and Rage Against the Machine are nominated in their]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/j-geils-band-mc5-sister-rosetta-tharpe-among-2018-nominees-for-rock-and-roll-hall/Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/j-geils-band-mc5-sister-rosetta-tharpe-among-2018-nominees-for-rock-and-roll-hall/ The celebration, led by GRAMMY®-winning industry icon Paul Shaffer as musical director, was recorded in July at New York&rsq]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/grammy-salute-to-music-legends-2017/Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/grammy-salute-to-music-legends-2017/ Blues has been referred to as “the devil’s music” for generations now, and that will continue for generations yet to come. After all, everyone knows the legend of how Robert Johnson, the premiere bluesman of the twent]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/adam-gussow-speaks-about-beyond-the-crossroads-the-devil-and-the-blues-tradition-at-turnrow-event/Wed, 04 Oct 2017 23:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/adam-gussow-speaks-about-beyond-the-crossroads-the-devil-and-the-blues-tradition-at-turnrow-event/ Feeding South Florida works with direct-service programs and a network of non-profit agencies, including soup kitchens, food pantries, homeless shelters, and more. The organization resc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southside-johnny-to-perform-benefit-show-in-orlando/Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southside-johnny-to-perform-benefit-show-in-orlando/ “St. Augustine’s Blues” is a spacious, beautifully textured example of what Americana is at its best. The vocals melt away and the music carries us to a place that re]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-exclusive-st-augustines-blues-house-above-the-sun/Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-exclusive-st-augustines-blues-house-above-the-sun/ Our deepest sympathies go out to the injured and the deceased and their loved ones, senseless violence has claimed the souls of our fans and we have little in the way of answers.
Our eternal gratitude goes out to the LVPD, Emergency services, security guards, and fans for their selfless acts of bravery while trying to help tho]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/statements-from-route-91-harvest-festival-and-live-nation/Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/statements-from-route-91-harvest-festival-and-live-nation/ A statement by friend and longtime manager Tony Dimitriades on his website reads, “On behalf of the Tom Petty family, we are devastated to announce the untimely death of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend, Tom petty. He suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu in the early ho]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-tom-petty-dead-at-66/Tue, 03 Oct 2017 06:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-tom-petty-dead-at-66/ Gunshots rang out everywhere and many festival attendees were seeking cover as others r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/over-50-dead-in-las-vegas-music-festival-shooting/Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/over-50-dead-in-las-vegas-music-festival-shooting/ Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mato Nanji, Chris Duarte, and myriad others have left an indelible mark on Fetterman’s style. He comes out swinging, no-holds-barred, like a prize]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jeff-fetterman-welcomes-us-9-miles-to-nowhere/Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jeff-fetterman-welcomes-us-9-miles-to-nowhere/ “We are rolling forward fast and furious,” said co-organizer Robin Colonas of the New Roxy venue. “We have so much amazing stuff planned, plus we keep amping up the wee]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clarksdale-mississippis-2017-deep-blues-festival/Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clarksdale-mississippis-2017-deep-blues-festival/ On screens, both big and small, Farmer has appeared in over 100 roles over the last 25 years. Appearing in such films as Po]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/actorbluesman-gary-farmer-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-award/Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/actorbluesman-gary-farmer-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-award/ You know the ones we mean: These are the ones that older brothers and sisters turned us on to. These are the ones that parents have made a point of turning their children on to. These]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-live-albums-you-must-own/Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-live-albums-you-must-own/ For a group that toured 300+ days last year, time is a commodity. Fortunately, we were able to catch up to lead guitarist/singer, JD Simo for his insights on the new sound, the influences behind it, a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/we-talk-in-depth-with-jd-simo-about-lsquorise-amp-shinersquo/Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/we-talk-in-depth-with-jd-simo-about-lsquorise-amp-shinersquo/ A post on his Facebook page early this morning reads, “Ellis ‘CeDell’ Davis passed away peacefully this evening, God Rest His Soul. Words can’t express the loss that this world has suffered tonight.”
Born E]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-cedell-davis-dead-at-90/Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-cedell-davis-dead-at-90/ DaSilva claims James Brown, Johnny Cash, Robert Nighthawk, Elvis, Buddy Guy, and Muddy Waters as just some of his influences. Of course, being from Chicago, he knows good blues when he hears it. Now he’s living in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and the sun and surf agree with him judging from h]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joel-dasilva-takes-us-everywhere-from-here/Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joel-dasilva-takes-us-everywhere-from-here/ Inviting in another galaxy of A-list, modern day blues stars, came naturally]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-supersonic-blues-machine-ft-eric-gales-elevate/Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-supersonic-blues-machine-ft-eric-gales-elevate/ Since landing in America, Weevil has released three albums: Southern Experience in 2008, The Teaser in 2011, and Moving in 2013. He’s won several awards including the 2014 Blues Blast Music Award “Acoustic Album o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-little-g-weevil-here-i-come-knocking/Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-little-g-weevil-here-i-come-knocking/ McCray certainly doesn’t consider himself a rocker. He performs prime time Saturday night, October 7th, at the iconic King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas, and will be on my Call and Response Blues Seminar at the Festival at noon on Saturday. H]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/larry-mccray-is-colorful-and-colorblind/Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/larry-mccray-is-colorful-and-colorblind/ This world premiere of “Nonchalant,” is the first track from Castro&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-tommy-castro-amp-the-painkillers-ldquononchalantrdquo/Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-tommy-castro-amp-the-painkillers-ldquononchalantrdquo/ Eyellusion, the same company that gave us the touring Ronnie James Dio hologram has partnered with the Zappa Family Trust to d]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/frank-zappa-hologram-tour-coming-soon/Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/frank-zappa-hologram-tour-coming-soon/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/nitty-gritty-dirt-band-celebrate-50-year-anniversary/Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/nitty-gritty-dirt-band-celebrate-50-year-anniversary/ Gabriel Roth, co-founder of Daptone Records said in a statement, “The world lost a ton of heart today. Charles was somehow one of the meekest and strongest people I’ve ever known. His pain was a cry for universal love and humanity. His soulful moans and screams will echo forever on records and in the ears and hearts of those who we]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/charles-bradley-dead-at-68/Sun, 24 Sep 2017 02:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/charles-bradley-dead-at-68/ The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy’s highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series showcases the music Dylan wrote and performed during one of the most surprising, controversial, and inspired periods of his career.
As the 1970s ended and the 1980s began, Dylan responded to the changing]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-dylan-trouble-no-more-the-bootleg-series-vol-13-1979-1981/Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-dylan-trouble-no-more-the-bootleg-series-vol-13-1979-1981/ Following in the musical footsteps of 2014’s December Day, the first volume in the Willie‘s Stash series (featuring his Sister Bobbie), Willie Nelson and the Boys is another family collaboration. This time it showcases Nelson and sons, Lukas Nelson, and Micah Nelson, performing a selection of well-]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/willie-nelson-releases-new-album-with-his-sons/Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/willie-nelson-releases-new-album-with-his-sons/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-winnie-brave-moonshine/Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-winnie-brave-moonshine/ Every Sunday]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/stew-cutler-shines-on-every-sunday-night/Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/stew-cutler-shines-on-every-sunday-night/ The show began promptly at 10 PM, with 3 siblings, along with their cousin, taking the stage and firing off what they call “Pop, Soul & Rock N Roll.” There were perhaps a half-dozen attendees at the sta]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/pop-soul-amp-rock-n-roll-ndash-the-new-respects/Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/pop-soul-amp-rock-n-roll-ndash-the-new-respects/ We were fortunate enough to spend a wee bit of time with John Fred Young, the second generation drummer who keeps the beat and time for Black Stone Cherry. The story that follows is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-black-stone-cherry-loves-their-blues-too/Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/why-black-stone-cherry-loves-their-blues-too/ Jewell, along with her co-producer/drummer/husband Jason Beek, unearthed 12 vintage gems written or made famous by an array of artists both renowned and obscure. Then, like expert stonecutters, they chiseled them into exciting new shapes and forms, honoring history while breathin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-eilen-jewell-you-know-my-love/Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-eilen-jewell-you-know-my-love/ An announcement posted on September 15th at Third Man Records website reads, “Third Man Records is proud to introduce our partnership with Universal Music Group in an effort to highlight the depth and importance of the Chess Records catalog. In what is now our third ongoing, label-based series of 7″ reissues, along with our Sun Re]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jack-whites-third-man-records-will-release-chess-records-reissues/Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jack-whites-third-man-records-will-release-chess-records-reissues/ Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential singers of all time, Patsy Cline, in her b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-life-of-patsy-cline-examined-in-new-dvd/Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-life-of-patsy-cline-examined-in-new-dvd/ The group’s kickoff performance will take place on December 8th, at the Fillmore in the city of San Francisco. Special guest guitar slinger Duane Betts, the son of Allman Brothers founding memebr Dickey Betts, will perform with the group during this show as well as on the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-devon-allman-project-to-kick-off-2018-tour-at-the-fillmore/Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-devon-allman-project-to-kick-off-2018-tour-at-the-fillmore/ Se]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/margo-price-returns-with-defiant-new-album/Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/margo-price-returns-with-defiant-new-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/big-jay-mcneelyrsquos-lsquohonkinrsquo-amp-jivinrsquo-at-the-palominorsquo-drops-tomorrow/Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/big-jay-mcneelyrsquos-lsquohonkinrsquo-amp-jivinrsquo-at-the-palominorsquo-drops-tomorrow/ A Texas-born musician, he’s played everywhere from the Royal Albert Hall to Willie N]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lightnin-willie-no-black-no-white-just-blues/Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lightnin-willie-no-black-no-white-just-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dee-dee-bridgewater-releases-new-album/Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dee-dee-bridgewater-releases-new-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-album-premiere-chris-pierces-youve-got-to-feel-it/Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-album-premiere-chris-pierces-youve-got-to-feel-it/ Collecting the label’s biggest hits, Soulsville U.S.A.: A Celebration of S]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/concord-amp-rhino-releasing-lsquosoulsville-usa-a-celebration-of-staxrsquo/Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/concord-amp-rhino-releasing-lsquosoulsville-usa-a-celebration-of-staxrsquo/ Of the ten tracks, most are cover songs. But the mixture of genres and eras makes for a delightful experience. The sound is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sunday-wilde-amp-reno-jack-are-lsquotworsquo-of-a-kind/Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sunday-wilde-amp-reno-jack-are-lsquotworsquo-of-a-kind/ In an effort to raise funds and awareness, they have arranged for proceeds of iTunes sales — as of Friday, September 8 — of “La Grange,” the leading track from their current album, Live! Greatest Hits From Around The Wor]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-top-offer-la-grange-to-aid-harvey-victims/Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-top-offer-la-grange-to-aid-harvey-victims/ Originally a self-described “soul snob,” now Broussard’s musical horizons are broadened daily.
American Blues Scene recently spent time with Broussar]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marc-broussard-soulful-aware-and-giving-back/Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marc-broussard-soulful-aware-and-giving-back/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mavis-staples-ponders-what-if-all-i-was-was-black/Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mavis-staples-ponders-what-if-all-i-was-was-black/ According to a statement on Bradley’s Facebook page, “He began to feel run down during recent tour dates and learned that his cancer spread to his liver, though hasn’t returned to his stomach. He will be ta]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/charles-bradley-cancels-tour-with-news-of-cancer-return/Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/charles-bradley-cancels-tour-with-news-of-cancer-return/ September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month. 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed, so we want to encourage everyone: talk about prostate cancer with your doctor! If you’re not at risk, talk about it with your family. And if you need some music to listen to in the waiting room, we’ve put together a playlist of musicians affected by prostate cancer.
Some of these artists died from prostate canc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-september-playlist-blues-for-prostate-cancer/Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-september-playlist-blues-for-prostate-cancer/ Blues/Country crossover hit, “Damaging Me,” talks of life. The pain it can inflict, and the bruises it can leave. This powerful video compliments the theme. We can pick up the pieces, smile, and move on, or we can create our own ending to the story. The song, in itself, is heart-wrenching. This world p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-gina-sicilia-damaging-me/Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-gina-sicilia-damaging-me/  
Now the band has joined forces with Smart Financial Centre to contribute $100,000 to local agencies handling the recovery effort. The partnership is especially apropos in light of the fact that ZZ Top is scheduled to pe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-top-returns-to-houston-partners-with-smart-financial-centre-to-contribute-to-harvey-relief/Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-top-returns-to-houston-partners-with-smart-financial-centre-to-contribute-to-harvey-relief/ Recorded at Dockside Studios in Louisiana, the warts-and-all mix, produced by Mike Zito, hammers home the Big Dog’s message. That message is crank it up! Up All Night kicks off with “Hoodoo On Me.” This grimy, guitar-driven trac]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-albert-castiglia/Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-albert-castiglia/ “I want to tell all of the real blues fans out there]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kim-wilson-gets-back-to-basics/Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kim-wilson-gets-back-to-basics/ The Paradise Kings are one of the fine bands hailing from Santa Barbara. They play blues that’s rockabilly, and blues that swings. They play with passion, and they]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paradise-kings-give-us-a-controlled-burn/Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paradise-kings-give-us-a-controlled-burn/ Jewell’s new collection of twelve rare, bold blues and R&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/americana-artist-eilen-jewell-releases-blues-album/Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/americana-artist-eilen-jewell-releases-blues-album/ While Lang still feels the influence of soul, he has brought more of his harder edged rock sound to this feast of intense and vibrant work. Production values are full, but not lush here, and do not impose upon the music. A lot of this music is hard edged, and the mix is right on the money and really brings out the subtleties that lay w]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jonny-lang-stands-tall-with-signs/Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jonny-lang-stands-tall-with-signs/ On Thursday, September 7th, a number of panels take place form 9 a.m. through 4 p.m. concluding with closing remarks by Dr. Alphonso&nb]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/3rd-annual-bb-king-symposium-this-week/Sun, 03 Sep 2017 22:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/3rd-annual-bb-king-symposium-this-week/ Becker was born in Queens, New York City. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in 1967. Although he is known mostly for his guitar playing, he began on the saxophone, and he also played bass.
He would meet Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen while the two were at Bar]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-steely-dan-co-founder-walter-becker-dead-at-67/Sun, 03 Sep 2017 17:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-steely-dan-co-founder-walter-becker-dead-at-67/ Marquise Knox (Photo from artist website)Bowling Green, MO – St. Louis musician and favorite son Marquise Knox was attacked and stabbed in the neck as he returned to his home early on Saturday morning, August 26th. Knox was returning from a gig with Dexter Allen, part of the Blues at the Arch series of concerts in downtown St. Louis.
He was taken to Pike County Memorial Hospital for treatment of his injuries. Regarding the attack, City of Bowling Green Police Department Ch]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/musician-marquise-knox-recovering-from-stabbing-attack/Sat, 02 Sep 2017 00:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/musician-marquise-knox-recovering-from-stabbing-attack/ Released on August 18th, via Alligator Records, Estrin and crew give us 13 original tracks.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rick-estrin-amp-the-nightcats-are-groovinrsquo-in-greaseland/Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:47:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rick-estrin-amp-the-nightcats-are-groovinrsquo-in-greaseland/ To celebrate this special occasion, on November 10th, 2017, Chrysalis Records will release a brand new 10 CD Box Set, gathering for the first time, albums from both the Chrysalis and Deram periods from 1967 to 1974.
This set, limited to 1,500 copies worldwide, contains]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ten-years-after-to-release-50th-anniversary-box-set/Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ten-years-after-to-release-50th-anniversary-box-set/ Although this will only be his second solo release, Harrold has appeared on nearly 100 recordings from Beyonce’, and 50 Cent to David Sanborn, and Nina Si]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/twenty-questions-with-keyon-harrold/Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/twenty-questions-with-keyon-harrold/ The event will feature the music by Ben Wiley Payton and is being conducted in loving memory of Mr. Art Browning who served for many years as the curator of the Mu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mississippi-john-hurt-foundation-2017-homecoming-festival-upon-us/Thu, 31 Aug 2017 01:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mississippi-john-hurt-foundation-2017-homecoming-festival-upon-us/ During the Paramount Music Festival, he will be lecturing beginning at 10]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gayle-dean-wardlow-brings-paramount-legacy-to-life/Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gayle-dean-wardlow-brings-paramount-legacy-to-life/ Picture discs are exactly what the title implies. Graphics or images are incorporated onto the vinyl itself. Extremely popu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-on-vinyl-picture-discs/Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-on-vinyl-picture-discs/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alastair-greenes-new-dream-train-album-out-in-october/Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alastair-greenes-new-dream-train-album-out-in-october/ A slow burner is not how we expected it to begin, but it works. Not exactly a rock ballad, but not exactly blues either, “My Moment,” makes his intentions clear. “Rules are made to be broken, and I’m gonna shine. This is my moment.” Sover&rs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/greg-sover-delivers-songs-of-a-renegade/Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/greg-sover-delivers-songs-of-a-renegade/ Other cities and towns have also suffered inconceivable devastation from winds, floods, and even tornados, including Rockport, Texas, which by some estimations now ha]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-top-comments-on-resilience-of-texas/Tue, 29 Aug 2017 05:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-top-comments-on-resilience-of-texas/ 2017 Blues Blast Music Award NomineesWinners in bold and blue
Contemporary Blues Album:
S]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-blues-blast-winners-announced/Sun, 27 Aug 2017 15:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-blues-blast-winners-announced/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-lee-hooker-retrospective-king-of-the-boogie-out-in-september/Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-lee-hooker-retrospective-king-of-the-boogie-out-in-september/ The song held strong meaning for Armstrong, as he pictured himself singing “What a Wonderful World” for the children in his Corona, Queens neighborhood. Once primarily an African American neig]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/louis-armstrong-house-museum-celebrates-50-years-of-what-a-wonderful-world/Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/louis-armstrong-house-museum-celebrates-50-years-of-what-a-wonderful-world/ In 52 years, and with nearly as many lineup changes, Savoy Brown has had two constants. A blues influence, and Kim Simmonds. Simmonds, the multi-instrumen]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/savoy-brown-gives-us-a-witchy-feelin/Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/savoy-brown-gives-us-a-witchy-feelin/ Joe Filisko and Eric Noden bring back the spirit of these musicians every time they play. They are not wannabes. They are not impersonators. Th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-filisko-amp-eric-noden-bring-history-to-every-performance/Thu, 24 Aug 2017 23:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/joe-filisko-amp-eric-noden-bring-history-to-every-performance/ “This is the song we usually cap off the end of our shows with, and gets the craziest crowd response,” the band shared. “It’s our ode to madness and the hu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-wyves-bitch-has-got-problems/Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-wyves-bitch-has-got-problems/ Also being enshrined this year are songwriter and producer “Cowboy” Jack Clement, bluesman Frank Stokes, Beale Street Music Festival founder Irvin Salky, and gospel performer Cassietta Geo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/memphis-music-hall-of-fame-class-of-2017-includes-memphis-horns-greats/Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/memphis-music-hall-of-fame-class-of-2017-includes-memphis-horns-greats/ Radio was the prominent way to sell records then. If they slipped through the cracks of radio airplay, a great band may never be nationally known. Still, thousands of bands were making music, pressing it onto those convenient discs, and touring the nation.
Groups that were maki]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-groups-you-may-not-remember-from-the-60s/Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-groups-you-may-not-remember-from-the-60s/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Zuzu is southern slang for a cookie, as in “Can I have some more zuzus, Mama?” The original zuzus were ginger snaps made by N]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-zuzu/Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-zuzu/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/celebrating-100-years-of-john-lee-hooker/Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/celebrating-100-years-of-john-lee-hooker/ 1. An i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-john-lee-hooker/Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-john-lee-hooker/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/govt-mule-rocks-red-rocks/Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/govt-mule-rocks-red-rocks/ The festival is a traveling celebration of music and food, and was co-founded by the Gregg Allman, Michael Lehman (Gregg’s manager), and Live Nation in 2015. As we all know, Gregg passed this May leaving us with an incredib]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/laid-back-festival-returns-to-atlanta/Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/laid-back-festival-returns-to-atlanta/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/trombone-shorty-shakes-things-up-at-red-rocks/Fri, 18 Aug 2017 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/trombone-shorty-shakes-things-up-at-red-rocks/ An offering of 15 tracks, Migration Blues compares the journeys, and forced marches, of blacks and Chicanos in the 20th century to the immigrants fleeing war and poverty today. Bibb knows more than]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/migration-blues-eric-bibbs-most-powerful-album/Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/migration-blues-eric-bibbs-most-powerful-album/ “Transformation” features collaborator Chris Farlowe providing]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/van-morrison-releases-transformation/Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/van-morrison-releases-transformation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/billy-flynn-loves-his-blues/Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/billy-flynn-loves-his-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tommy-castro-to-release-stompin-ground/Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tommy-castro-to-release-stompin-ground/ Oliver was born in Nottingham, England, in 1927. Initially trained as an artist, he started upon a career at the Architectural Association and later, he began teaching architectural history. He would go on to become a researcher at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, and eventually, he became Associate Head of th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-historian-paul-oliver-dead-at-90/Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-historian-paul-oliver-dead-at-90/ Branch took over harmonica duties in Willie Dixon’s Chicago Blues All-Stars when Carey Bell left the group to head out]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/billy-branch-works-hard-to-keep-the-blues-alive/Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/billy-branch-works-hard-to-keep-the-blues-alive/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
The scary movie zombie got its name from a holy West African religious experience that was misunderstood and misrepresented by European o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-zombie/Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-zombie/ A native of the Mississippi Delta, Ingram began playing drums at]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kingfish-headlines-st-louis-blues-festival/Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kingfish-headlines-st-louis-blues-festival/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/randy-newman-chronicles-sonny-boy-williamson/Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/randy-newman-chronicles-sonny-boy-williamson/ Made up of Mark Solveson on bass, Raymond Tevich on keyboards , and Alan Arber on drums, the band’s sound focuses on the play between Jeff Schroedl’s lightning guitar, and the bravado-filled barit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/altered-five-blues-band-is-lsquocharmed-amp-dangerousrsquo/Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/altered-five-blues-band-is-lsquocharmed-amp-dangerousrsquo/ Sanctified is Low Society’s third album. They debuted in 2011 with High Time, a relatively well-received album. Following this, in 2014, they released You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/low-societys-sanctified-is-a-modern-blues-masterpiece/Fri, 11 Aug 2017 23:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/low-societys-sanctified-is-a-modern-blues-masterpiece/ Now, a decidedly American influence has emerged. The Big House Blues Bar & Grill opened for business on August 4th. The building began life as an historic Catholic C]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/darwen-uk-gets-new-blues-club/Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/darwen-uk-gets-new-blues-club/ JD Nash for American Blues Scene:
‘We’re All in This Together,&rs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-says-were-all-in-this-together/Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-says-were-all-in-this-together/ Croce has been inextricably linked to a version of his own story by virtue of his name. He’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/aj-croces-other-side-of-love/Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/aj-croces-other-side-of-love/ Walter Trout is an International success story. A virtuoso guitarist, and remarkably talented songwriter, he&rs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-forty-years-a-bluesman/Wed, 09 Aug 2017 21:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-forty-years-a-bluesman/ The show is an adult soap opera about the not-so-private lives of pop country artists peppered with perfo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rhiannon-giddens-a-black-musician-with-strings-attached/Wed, 09 Aug 2017 20:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rhiannon-giddens-a-black-musician-with-strings-attached/ Forty years after Presley’s death, the beautiful, baby grand that once adorned Graceland, will be auctioned via eBay. Bidding begins on Thursday, August 10th, at 8 pm EDT, and concludes at 8 pm EDT on Sunday, August 2]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elvis-piano-up-for-auction/Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elvis-piano-up-for-auction/  
Campbell announced he had Alzheimer’s in 2011, and had been bravely battling the disease ever since. A statement on the Glen Campbell (Official) Facebook page]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/glen-campbell-dead-at-81/Wed, 09 Aug 2017 09:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/glen-campbell-dead-at-81/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Used as a rhyming substitute for “ass,” yas yas and “yas yas yas” appear in hokum blues from the 1920s such as Ta]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-yas-yas/Tue, 08 Aug 2017 21:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-yas-yas/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-peacemakers-debut-hits-the-street-august-18th/Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-peacemakers-debut-hits-the-street-august-18th/ Photo by Marilyn StringerHe’s played with Willie Dixon’s band, the Chicago Blues All Stars, Muddy Waters, Magic Slim & The Teardrops. He has recorded with, opened for, and/or jammed with the likes of Gary Clark Jr., John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Junior Wells, and B.B. King.
John Primer has seen the Chicago blues mature and grow through several generations of masters now. In addition to playing with the artists mentioned, he also played the now myth]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-primer-loves-the-blues-his-way/Mon, 07 Aug 2017 19:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-primer-loves-the-blues-his-way/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jesus-rocked-the-jukebox-small-group-black-gospel-1951-1965-coming-september-15th/Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jesus-rocked-the-jukebox-small-group-black-gospel-1951-1965-coming-september-15th/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kenny-wayne-shepherd-opens-doors/Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kenny-wayne-shepherd-opens-doors/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paramount-records-celebrates-milestone-birthday/Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paramount-records-celebrates-milestone-birthday/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-steppenwolf-founder-goldy-mcjohn-dead-at-72/Fri, 04 Aug 2017 07:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-steppenwolf-founder-goldy-mcjohn-dead-at-72/ The cro]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayers-the-search-for-everything-tour-is-a-blast/Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayers-the-search-for-everything-tour-is-a-blast/  
Chris Giocondo for American Blues Scene:
Where did the band meet?
Jeremy Kelley and Abigail Cosio of Bon Bon Vivant:
Bon Bon Vivant includes members: Jeremy Kelley, Abigail and Glori Cosio, Ry D’Antonio,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bon-bon-vivant-a-delightful-slice-of-new-orleans/Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bon-bon-vivant-a-delightful-slice-of-new-orleans/ Benyaro is the indie roots project of the seclusive musician, and his third original, fu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-benyaro-new-moon/Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-track-from-benyaro-new-moon/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/laura-tate-thrills-with-lets-just-be-real/Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/laura-tate-thrills-with-lets-just-be-real/ On Wednesday, September 13th, Cannon will don the red, white, and blue jersey of the Chicago Cubs, and take the mound at Wrigley Field. He’ll be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch, prior to the game between the world champs and the New York Mets.
According to Cannon, “As a native Chicagoan,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/toronzo-cannon-takes-the-mound-at-wrigley/Wed, 02 Aug 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/toronzo-cannon-takes-the-mound-at-wrigley/ The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, well-known for his other crossover]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-lloyd-price-this-is-rock-and-roll/Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-lloyd-price-this-is-rock-and-roll/ Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real have quietly developed into one of America’s most dazzling new live acts, playing hundreds of shows and major festivals all over the world, attracting a deeply devoted underground following.
Still, wit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lukas-nelson-amp-promise-of-the-real-and-nikki-lane-announce-stagecoach-spotlight-tour/Tue, 01 Aug 2017 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lukas-nelson-amp-promise-of-the-real-and-nikki-lane-announce-stagecoach-spotlight-tour/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Woofing is verbally nimble teasing and name-calling. Woofing is also a method for “calling someone out,” as in Bessie Smith&r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-woofing/Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-woofing/ Elise will perform songs from Playing Chess at an intimate showcase at the Standard, East Village in NYC on August 15th. Watch her make her TV debut performing a heartfelt rendition of Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” on Canada’s Global News Morning Show.
Playing Chess has earned]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elise-legrow-releases-sultry-rendition-of-bo-diddleys-who-do-you-love/Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elise-legrow-releases-sultry-rendition-of-bo-diddleys-who-do-you-love/ On Saturday, September 2]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/digging-deep-with-corky-siegel/Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/digging-deep-with-corky-siegel/ The group’s take-no-pr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/25-years-later-the-red-devils-return/Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/25-years-later-the-red-devils-return/ The plantation was established in 1895 by Will Dockery (1865–1936) when the Delta was still a wilderness of forest and swamp. The land was cleared and planted with cotton. The opening of a branch of the Yazoo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-site-named-a-mississippi-landmark/Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-site-named-a-mississippi-landmark/ “I know it’s crazy for four rock n’ roll dudes to make a blues EP, but it’s us sharing with everyone the music that’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/black-stone-cherry-goes-black-to-blues/Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/black-stone-cherry-goes-black-to-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-blues-museum-to-celebrate-john-lee-hooker-centennial/Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-blues-museum-to-celebrate-john-lee-hooker-centennial/ As a cue for the blues performers to set up onstage at the end of hi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-barnes-hooks-em-with-hokum/Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-barnes-hooks-em-with-hokum/ Outlaw Country dates back some 50 years. Artists who opposed the commercial control of the Nash]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kansas-city-hosts-outlaw-country-music-festival/Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kansas-city-hosts-outlaw-country-music-festival/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gregg-allman-says-goodbye-with-posthumous-my-only-true-friend/Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gregg-allman-says-goodbye-with-posthumous-my-only-true-friend/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Like “having a ball,” the phrase “making whoopee was originally a euphemism for having sex, before it crossed over into]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-whoopee/Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-whoopee/ Amidst their 215 show tour last year, the band began writing for Rise & Shine. Varying a bit from their solid blues rock format, SIMO has some new influences. Artis]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-simo-album-and-video/Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-simo-album-and-video/ The Laughing Apple follows the common ‘60s template of combining newly-written songs with a number of covers – except that all the covers are from Yusuf’s 1967 catalogue. This latest]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/yusufcat-stevens-returns-with-the-laughing-apple/Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/yusufcat-stevens-returns-with-the-laughing-apple/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-jimmy-carpenters-you-belong-to-me/Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-jimmy-carpenters-you-belong-to-me/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/levon-helm-memorial-planned-in-marvell-arkansas/Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/levon-helm-memorial-planned-in-marvell-arkansas/ Bo Carter – Photo by Paul OliverIn the hustle and bustle of today’s lightning paced world, it seems at times as though so much of our history is disappearing. Each day we find another piece of our memories, our history, our landmarks, our way of life has disappeared, slipping beneath the waves of apathy, abandonment and disrepair, development, or just blatant disregard.
Now and then though, we are fortunate enough to reach beneath the waves of this abyss and pull something bac]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mt-zion-memorial-fund-preserves-delta-legacy-one-project-at-a-time/Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mt-zion-memorial-fund-preserves-delta-legacy-one-project-at-a-time/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sam-cookes-brother-lc-cooke-dead-at-84/Sun, 23 Jul 2017 03:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sam-cookes-brother-lc-cooke-dead-at-84/ &ld]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dan-zanes-brings-lead-belly-to-a-new-generation/Sat, 22 Jul 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dan-zanes-brings-lead-belly-to-a-new-generation/ For those who don’t believe sparse, simple music, delivered honestly and boldly can be powerful, we would beg to differ. As evidence of our strongly held belief, we offer High Dollar Gospel ]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eli-cook-delivers-on-high-dollar-gospel/Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eli-cook-delivers-on-high-dollar-gospel/ While it is rare for a singer-songwriter to relocate to Nashville and record an Americana project]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gospel-artist-judy-paster-to-release-americana-ep/Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gospel-artist-judy-paster-to-release-americana-ep/ Both Kropp, and Coming Up For Air are American authentic. Song to song, it is apparent that]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taylor-kropp-is-coming-up-for-air/Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taylor-kropp-is-coming-up-for-air/ Everyone from Robert Johnson, Willie Brown, Ishmon Brac]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/keeping-the-mississippi-blues-legacy-alive-and-relevant/Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/keeping-the-mississippi-blues-legacy-alive-and-relevant/ “Arts organizations throughout the state of Mississippi play a pivotal role in sharing the power of the arts with people from all walks of life,” said Malc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-blues-museum-awarded-2017-2018-mississippi-arts-commission-grant/Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-blues-museum-awarded-2017-2018-mississippi-arts-commission-grant/ Performers at Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater, on the ticketed Wide Open Main Stage September 29th & 30th, incl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/final-lineup-announced-for-world-of-bluegrass-2017/Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/final-lineup-announced-for-world-of-bluegrass-2017/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Washboard SamA washboard is a wooden or metal board played as a percussion instrument with thimbles, spoons, knitting needles, or metal f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-washboard/Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-washboard/ Signed to the famed Stax Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Southern Avenue’s recently released self-titled debut has already reached #1 on the iTunes Blues cha]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenue-nominated-for-two-blues-blast-awards/Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenue-nominated-for-two-blues-blast-awards/ Anchondo grew up on a Missouri farm, taking in all the influences he could. Old-time blues, bluegrass, roots, and Latino music formed the soundtrack of his life. When his contemporaries were heading off to college, he headed straight to Omaha, Nebraska, diving head first into the music scene. It w]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hector-anchondo-rolls-the-dice-with-latest-release/Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hector-anchondo-rolls-the-dice-with-latest-release/  
Bill is gone now. He was 69 years old. A statement on the Collings Guitars.com homepage reads:
 “We lost our dear friend and me]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premier-luthier-bill-collings-has-died/Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/premier-luthier-bill-collings-has-died/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mr-sipp-thrills-with-knock-a-hole-in-it/Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mr-sipp-thrills-with-knock-a-hole-in-it/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/haymarket-riots-eyes-on-the-prize-is-rockin-gospel/Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/haymarket-riots-eyes-on-the-prize-is-rockin-gospel/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-greatest-blues-song-intros-of-all-time/Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-greatest-blues-song-intros-of-all-time/ Since then, Bennett has gone on to record two solo albums,  Inevitable Discovery (2016) and now The Vie]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tim-bennett-to-release-the-view-from-here/Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tim-bennett-to-release-the-view-from-here/ Having interviewed George, I got firsthand experience of his charisma. Together we talked about music appreciation and the antic]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/george-thorogood-talks-party-of-one-and-more/Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/george-thorogood-talks-party-of-one-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-wiggins-hunter-amp-seamons-give-us-ldquodo-you-call-that-a-buddyrdquo/Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-wiggins-hunter-amp-seamons-give-us-ldquodo-you-call-that-a-buddyrdquo/ Director Daniel Cross’ film I Am the Blues is a musical and spiritual journey of discovering the blues of the Mississippi Delta and Hill Country, as well as the Louisiana Bayou. This is a journey into]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/i-am-the-blues-rediscovers-national-treasures/Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/i-am-the-blues-rediscovers-national-treasures/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/van-morrison-will-receive-americana-lifetime-achievement-award/Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/van-morrison-will-receive-americana-lifetime-achievement-award/ Still, with a bounty of invaluable experience under their belts, nothing foretold the artistic leap of Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real. Their new, self-titled album is a mesmerizing, emotionally genuine, endl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lukas-nelson-to-release-new-album/Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lukas-nelson-to-release-new-album/ Ticket sales opened this Friday, July 7th, and golfer registration i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/randy-rogers-bands-9th-annual-golf-jam-and-concert/Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/randy-rogers-bands-9th-annual-golf-jam-and-concert/ Elwood Blues, your musical chauffeur, here.
The BluesMobile began life as the House of Blues Radio Hour, way back in 1993. Over the years we moved from the house to the road, but the mission was always the same: showcase the best in blues, blues-rock, roots music, R&B, soul, jazz, straight up rock… and all points in between.
I put the sp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesmobile-says-farewell/Fri, 07 Jul 2017 22:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesmobile-says-farewell/ Never mind that Derek Trucks’ wife and co-band leader Susan Tedeschi has a voice like Bonnie Raitt plugged into six 12-volt batteries.
Never mind that he’s backed by a three-piece horn section powered by veterans whose credits include Eric Clapton, The Dirty]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-does-size-matter/Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-does-size-matter/ This is also Holmes’ first recording since the passing of his brother and musical partners, Wendell Holmes and Popsy Dixon, both in 2015. But his solo debut, dedicated to their memories, is no]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sherman-holmes-to-release-first-solo-album-the-richmond-sessions/Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sherman-holmes-to-release-first-solo-album-the-richmond-sessions/ Each year, the Americana Music Association℠&nb]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/16th-annual-americana-honors-amp-awards-nominees-announced/Thu, 06 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/16th-annual-americana-honors-amp-awards-nominees-announced/ First released in 1961, the song Wang Dang Doodle is one of the quintessential blues songs of the 60s era in Chicago. The song, which spans a mere 2 minutes and 20 seconds in duration, was initially released as a 7-inch 45-RPM record by the Chess Studio and recording label. It was defined by one music critic, Mike Rowe, as “an urban party song in an urban style, w]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-short-history-of-wang-dang-doodle/Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-short-history-of-wang-dang-doodle/ On July 8th, this daylong event, including live performance and various family-friendly activates, celebrates the life and legacy of the jazz great and local hero. The festi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/4th-annual-louis-armstrongs-wonderful-world-festival/Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/4th-annual-louis-armstrongs-wonderful-world-festival/ The process results in two forms of recognition for the artists. First the nominators select their “best of&r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-blues-blast-music-awards-voting-has-begun/Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-blues-blast-music-awards-voting-has-begun/ It is an am]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/top-10-americana-albums-to-own-on-vinyl/Tue, 04 Jul 2017 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/top-10-americana-albums-to-own-on-vinyl/ Taste of Chicago is free and open to the public. Headlining performances at the Petrillo Music Shell are free admission for lawn seats. General seating tickets are]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/37th-taste-of-chicago-almost-here/Mon, 03 Jul 2017 13:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/37th-taste-of-chicago-almost-here/ It’s Tuesday night at Club Helsinki in Hudson, New York, a few miles north of Woodstock. Banditos are eight shows into a grueling 48-stop tour opening for Luce]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/banditos-slash-and-turn-in-concert/Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/banditos-slash-and-turn-in-concert/ Shore Fire MediaJudy Collins and Stephen Stills first met in 1967 and quickly fell into a tumultuous love affair that would be immortalized in Stephen’s song “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” Out September 22 on Wildflower / Cleopatra Records, Stills & Collins marks the first album the two icons and longtime friends have recorded together.
The loving, playful and emotional album finds Judy and Stephen performing refreshed versions of songs that tie their whimsical 50-year his]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lsquostills-amp-collinsrsquo-celebrates-50-years-of-musical-friendship/Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lsquostills-amp-collinsrsquo-celebrates-50-years-of-musical-friendship/ 1. Broonzy reinvented himself, many times, as his life p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-big-bill-broonzy/Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-big-bill-broonzy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/something-finally-just-arrived-the-return-of-jason-ricci/Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/something-finally-just-arrived-the-return-of-jason-ricci/ Mae [Lillie Mae Rische] has been playing professionally since childhood. She joined Jack White‘s Peacocks in 2012 and has spent time]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lillie-mae-livens-up-the-late-show/Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lillie-mae-livens-up-the-late-show/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-returns-with-brand-new-studio-album/Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-returns-with-brand-new-studio-album/ Fans can also purchase each album in CD and vinyl, or download in MP3 format on Amazon Music. Worried]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/fat-possum-records-to-release-worried-blues-10-album-series-of-historic-rarities/Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/fat-possum-records-to-release-worried-blues-10-album-series-of-historic-rarities/ Campbell and Williams have embarked on their own recording and touring journey after decades of marriage, and seven years working closely with Levon Helm. Campbell was ban]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/former-levon-helm-bandmates-release-sophomore-album/Mon, 26 Jun 2017 18:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/former-levon-helm-bandmates-release-sophomore-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mellencamp-celebrates-the-spirit-with-lsquosad-clowns-amp-hillbilliesrsquo/Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mellencamp-celebrates-the-spirit-with-lsquosad-clowns-amp-hillbilliesrsquo/ Known for her stunningly “shimmerin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lee-ann-womack-amp-patty-griffin-joint-tour-launches-july-22nd/Sat, 24 Jun 2017 19:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lee-ann-womack-amp-patty-griffin-joint-tour-launches-july-22nd/ The concert, which will feature many of the artists who appeared on Roll Columbia, will highlight the songs Guthrie wrote in Portland during the spring of 1941 when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administrat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/album-release-concert-scheduled-for-woody-guthries-105th-birthday/Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/album-release-concert-scheduled-for-woody-guthries-105th-birthday/ The concert, which will feature many of the artists who appeared on Roll Columbia, will highlight the songs Guthrie wrote in Portland during the spring of 1941 when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administrat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/album-release-concert-scheduled-for-woodie-guthries-105th-birthday/Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/album-release-concert-scheduled-for-woodie-guthries-105th-birthday/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blind-boys-of-alabama-to-release-almost-home-on-amazon/Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blind-boys-of-alabama-to-release-almost-home-on-amazon/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sonny-landreth-talks-live-in-lafayette/Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sonny-landreth-talks-live-in-lafayette/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-national-heritage-fellows-announced/Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-national-heritage-fellows-announced/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-track-from-george-thorogood/Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-track-from-george-thorogood/ About the National Heritage Fellowship
Often referred to by]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/harmonica-player-phil-wiggins-honored-with-nea-national-heritage-fellowship/Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/harmonica-player-phil-wiggins-honored-with-nea-national-heritage-fellowship/ In a roundabout way, it was Gregg that inspired Duane Allman to begin playing slide guitar – an event that would make him one of the best, and most sought after slide players in history. Duane was spending his 22nd birthday]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-gregg-allman/Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-gregg-allman/ After asking her mom for a guitar at 15, she eventually bought her own and moved to New York City. Th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-debra-devis-tired-of-waiting/Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-debra-devis-tired-of-waiting/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/happy-birthday-brian-wilson/Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/happy-birthday-brian-wilson/ The single is a cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” scheduled for release this Wednesday, June 21st at 8 AM. It was reco]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/artists-come-together-to-help-grenfell-tower-victims/Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/artists-come-together-to-help-grenfell-tower-victims/ As we listen to the new Jason Ricci album, Appr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jason-ricci-treats-us-to-approved-by-snakes/Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jason-ricci-treats-us-to-approved-by-snakes/ Neal had journeyed to Chicago where he played with James Cotton for years. He performed with many stellar artists during his career including Johnny Wi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bass-virtuoso-noel-neal-has-died/Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bass-virtuoso-noel-neal-has-died/ “Michissippi” Mick Kolassa and Mark Telesca have done what many said couldn’t be done. They bluesified a s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-beatles-as-blues-you-cant-do-that/Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-beatles-as-blues-you-cant-do-that/ On Pick Your Poison, Birchwood, along with his band—saxophonist Regi Oliver, bassist Huff Wright, and drumme]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/selwyn-birchwood-first-video-from-pick-your-poison/Sat, 17 Jun 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/selwyn-birchwood-first-video-from-pick-your-poison/ The mere mention of the names Doug Eason, Donn Johnson and Bernie Hayes brings pleasant memories to many that grew up in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/national-blues-museum-to-celebrate-black-music-month/Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/national-blues-museum-to-celebrate-black-music-month/ The mere mention of the names Doug Eason, Donn Johnson and Bernie Hayes brings pleasant memories to many that grew up in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/national-blues-museum-celebrates-black-music-month/Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/national-blues-museum-celebrates-black-music-month/ For the Grand County Blues Society and the good people of Winter Park, Colorado, keeping the blues tradition alive and bringing the blues to others is a c]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-from-the-top-festival-is-a-labor-of-love/Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-from-the-top-festival-is-a-labor-of-love/ Ever listen to any volume of Chess tracks, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Lightnin’ Hopkins, or Dylan’s classic Highway 61? Then you’ve heard Sam Lay. He was the prominent pulse on classic tracks you’ve surely listened to countless times over. You’ve heard his cowbell, penny-whistle, and a double-shuffle beat as only he can deliver it. Sam was the founding drummer of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which afforded him induction into the Rock]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-anderson-and-sam-lay-discuss-sam-lay-in-bluesland/Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-anderson-and-sam-lay-discuss-sam-lay-in-bluesland/ Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1942, he moved to Memphis at the age of 12. All along the way, the influences of blues, soul, R&B, and rock]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/linsey-alexander-releases-two-cats/Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/linsey-alexander-releases-two-cats/ Although the Millennium Park incorporated some great changes – large tents for the Front Porch and Mississippi stages, with state of the art sound at th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chicago-blues-festival-finds-new-home-in-millennium-park/Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chicago-blues-festival-finds-new-home-in-millennium-park/ Another week of tours with Southern Avenue has come to a close, but not without its set of “Ohhhs” and “Ahhhs” and a lot of applause from fans, new and old. In every location, the band was greeted with fans, excitement, and smiles. To be able to be behind the scenes during a week of festivals and shows was a pr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/on-the-road-with-southern-avenue-june-6th-12th/Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/on-the-road-with-southern-avenue-june-6th-12th/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Voodoo is a religion that evolved in the Americas from West African Vodun, one of the world’s most ancient religions.The defining V]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-voodoo/Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-voodoo/ This historic show features a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see legends William Bell]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/take-me-to-the-river-live-at-grammy-museum-mississippi/Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/take-me-to-the-river-live-at-grammy-museum-mississippi/ Genre-defying c]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluz-unleashes-unlocked/Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluz-unleashes-unlocked/ So, what’s a modern, informed music lover to do? Enter Sarah Shook & The Disarmers with their new release of Sidelong on Bloodshot Records. Originally]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sarah-shooks-sidelong-is-country-smothered-in-grit-and-washed-in-rockabilly/Fri, 09 Jun 2017 21:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sarah-shooks-sidelong-is-country-smothered-in-grit-and-washed-in-rockabilly/ The dedication is a kick-off to the 34th Annual Chicago Blues Festival which takes place this weekend in Millennium Park. Participants in the dedi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/muddy-waters-mural-dedication/Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/muddy-waters-mural-dedication/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Jimmie Vaughan – photo by Joseph A. Rosen (courtesy The Language of the Blues)Texas blues guitarist Johnny Winter once said, &ldquo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-vibrato/Wed, 07 Jun 2017 20:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-vibrato/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/on-the-road-with-southern-avenue-smokin-in-steele-bbq-and-blues-festival/Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/on-the-road-with-southern-avenue-smokin-in-steele-bbq-and-blues-festival/ On Thursday, June 8 Shemekia Copeland and Toronzo Cannon will appear as part of the WXRT Blues Breakers Blues Fest Broadcast at Buddy Guy’s Legends. Toronzo Cannon will headline at Buddy Guy’s Legen]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alligator-artists-performing-at-the-34th-annual-chicago-blues-festival/Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alligator-artists-performing-at-the-34th-annual-chicago-blues-festival/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/karl-densons-low-rider-blues/Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/karl-densons-low-rider-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cary-morins-cradle-to-the-grave-speaks-with-contemporary-delta-sound/Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cary-morins-cradle-to-the-grave-speaks-with-contemporary-delta-sound/ Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago Blues is part of Live on the Lake!, Navy Pier’s free music and dance series, featuring a wide array of live local and national musical talent spanning the genres of rock, pop, folk, soul, blues, and more. Learn more.
There’s more info over at Navy Pier’s web site; check o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guys-presenting-weekly-blues-at-navy-pier-part-of-live-on-the-lake/Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guys-presenting-weekly-blues-at-navy-pier-part-of-live-on-the-lake/ Photo: St. Louis Post-DispatchMark P. O’Shaughnessy, owner of the long-running blues venue, and restaurant BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups and a staunch advocate of the St. Louis blues scene, died Saturday, May 27th, 2017 of complications from diabetes. He was 65.
O’Shaughnessy, a St. Louis native, died in his apartment, above BB’s.
He originally opened the venue in 1976. A second i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mark-orsquoshaughnessy-owner-of-bbrsquos-jazz-blues-amp-soups-dead-at-65/Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mark-orsquoshaughnessy-owner-of-bbrsquos-jazz-blues-amp-soups-dead-at-65/ “Arrangements have been made for Gregg’s funeral in Macon, GA this Saturday, June 3rd at 1 pm.  His family has invited fans to line the route of the funeral procession to Rose Hill Cemetery in honor of Gregg.  The procession will begin after the memorial service at the intersection of Cherry Street and 1st Street.
The route will run n]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/funeral-arrangements-for-gregg-allman-announced/Thu, 01 Jun 2017 07:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/funeral-arrangements-for-gregg-allman-announced/ “They say the only people who know true freedom are musicians and gangsters,” C]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-robinson-brotherhood-to-release-barefoot-in-the-head/Wed, 31 May 2017 13:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-robinson-brotherhood-to-release-barefoot-in-the-head/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Vestapol is an open D Major tuning for the guitar. This means that if a guitar tuned in Vestapol is strummed without fretting any notes,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-vestapol/Tue, 30 May 2017 20:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-vestapol/ Born near Philadelphia, PA, Hurley spent years in the club circuits of San Francisco and Los Angel]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kyle-t-hurley-mixes-country-blues-with-modern-rock/Tue, 30 May 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/kyle-t-hurley-mixes-country-blues-with-modern-rock/ Jackie Venson is the daughter of well-known Austin musician Andrew Venson and a graduate of Berklee College of Music. As part of a new generation of stellar players, Venson preaches her refreshing blend of rock, soul,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-jackie-venson-video-always-free/Tue, 30 May 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-jackie-venson-video-always-free/ We are so happy to see the feedback we get from our listeners on TuneIn.com. They really have some great stuff to say about BluesMusicFan Radio and we are extraordinarily grateful to hear how much people enjoy what we do!   Thank you one and all!
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“]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/some-great-comments-via-tune-in/Sun, 28 May 2017 01:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/some-great-comments-via-tune-in/ The cause of his death was not immediately released, however, Allman has suffered from chronic liver issues for several years.
Born Gregory LeNoir Allman on December 8th, 1947 he worked as a paperboy to purcha]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gregg-allman-dead-at-69/Sun, 28 May 2017 00:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gregg-allman-dead-at-69/ Production quality and session musicians such as drummer]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/on-the-beat-of-my-heart-lisa-biales-gives-us-blues-jazz-and-more/Fri, 26 May 2017 21:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/on-the-beat-of-my-heart-lisa-biales-gives-us-blues-jazz-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elise-legrow-debut-playing-chess-set-for-august-release/Fri, 26 May 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/elise-legrow-debut-playing-chess-set-for-august-release/ In his music, Getto is inspired by rock, blues and folk legends, such as Tom Waits and The Band, and newer folk artists including, Steve Gunn, Lady Lamb, The Tallest Man On Earth and Deer Tick.
 
“Change” is one of 11 impressive tracks on Getto’s upcoming alb]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-alan-gettos-change/Thu, 25 May 2017 17:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-world-premiere-alan-gettos-change/ Available on 18-gram vinyl, MP3, and CD, the record was produced by Luther Dickinson at his Zebra Ranch in Coldwater, Mississippi, and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-nmeth-is-feelin-freaky-about-his-new-release/Thu, 25 May 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-nmeth-is-feelin-freaky-about-his-new-release/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-blues-museum-to-participate-in-blue-star-museums/Wed, 24 May 2017 23:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-blues-museum-to-participate-in-blue-star-museums/ The double CD, and vinyl release on Provogue/Mascot Label Group includes the most extensive acou]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sonny-landreth-doubles-up-on-recorded-live-in-lafayette/Wed, 24 May 2017 17:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sonny-landreth-doubles-up-on-recorded-live-in-lafayette/ In late Spring 2016, John Nemeth & his band descended upon Don Odells Legends where they gave a series of brilliant performances. One of those performances included this solid soulful rendition of  “G]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-nmeth-premieres-gave-up-on-you/Tue, 23 May 2017 14:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-nmeth-premieres-gave-up-on-you/ Issued by Nonesuch Records in conjunction with Record Store Day in April, this collection of long-lost recordings from 1975 features the justly beloved Tour&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/celebrating-inna-baba-coulibalys-sahel/Mon, 22 May 2017 23:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/celebrating-inna-baba-coulibalys-sahel/ Black was actually conceived in the Bluff City. It’s easy to believe that her soulful, sultry, tremolo vocals were a gift from the M. They’r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/newest-from-amy-black-is-all-about-memphis/Mon, 22 May 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/newest-from-amy-black-is-all-about-memphis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/first-ever-chuck-berry-video-big-boys-is-a-winner/Sat, 20 May 2017 16:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/first-ever-chuck-berry-video-big-boys-is-a-winner/ Writing and performing the blues has always been cathartic. Pent up emotions liberated through song. On this Blue Elan Records offering, she had a great deal of emotions to expunge. “I’ve been through a lot in the past three years,” she relates, “I suffered through a painful and dramatic]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/for-gina-sicilia-life-is-a-tug-of-war/Fri, 19 May 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/for-gina-sicilia-life-is-a-tug-of-war/ As we look back on the career and music of the immensely gifted artist Joe Cocker, different generations hold differing images of the same truth: he was a giant. Some would see him as an upstart. Others would see him as a free-spirited, free-wheeling performer. Still, later, others would come to know him as a deeply emotive singer, and a purveyor of truths regarding t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tbt-ndash-joe-cockerrsquos-thrown-together-epiphany-lsquomad-dogs-amp-englishmenrsquo/Fri, 19 May 2017 00:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tbt-ndash-joe-cockerrsquos-thrown-together-epiphany-lsquomad-dogs-amp-englishmenrsquo/ Hundreds of performers took the stage to perform an average of two songs each in a flawlessly produced ep]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/looking-back-at-blues-biggest-night-the-bmas/Thu, 18 May 2017 20:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/looking-back-at-blues-biggest-night-the-bmas/ His representative, Brian Bumbery, said in a statement that the death was “sudden and unexpected.” Mr. Bumbery also said the singer’s family would be “working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause.”
Cornell had played a show at the Fox Theate]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soundgarden-amp-audioslave-frontman-chris-cornell-dead-at-52/Thu, 18 May 2017 16:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soundgarden-amp-audioslave-frontman-chris-cornell-dead-at-52/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marcia-ball-named-2018-texas-state-musician/Thu, 18 May 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marcia-ball-named-2018-texas-state-musician/ 1. Born John Robert Cocker in 1944, he took the name Joe from a childhood game. A fan]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-joe-cocker/Wed, 17 May 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-joe-cocker/ For Stuart, this has been a journey that has brought him full circle. He began as “a thirteen-year-old chimpanzee&rdquo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marty-stuart-honors-the-past-looks-to-the-future/Wed, 17 May 2017 14:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marty-stuart-honors-the-past-looks-to-the-future/  
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An amazing gathering of musicians joined music business professionals and devoted fans on May 11 to honor the best in blues for the past year. The Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, Tennessee transformed into a joyous blues party during the 38th annual Blues Music Awards as The Blues Foundation shined the spotlight on the remarkable work created by the night’s honorees.
Bobby Rush not only picked up an Album of the Year victory]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-biggest-night-joe-bonamassa-bobby-rush-curtis-salgado-and-the-tedeschi-trucks-band-grab-multiple-wins-at-the-blues-foundations-38th-annual-blues-music-awards/Tue, 16 May 2017 23:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-biggest-night-joe-bonamassa-bobby-rush-curtis-salgado-and-the-tedeschi-trucks-band-grab-multiple-wins-at-the-blues-foundations-38th-annual-blues-music-awards/ Catt was a founder of the Grand County Blues Society in Colorado. A 501(c)3 charitable organization, they’ve spent over a decade supporting the blues, and passing the torch to young people in their area. From their very first meetings, volunteer dedication to the love of live blues music has been their]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blue-star-connection-founder-john-catt-has-died/Tue, 16 May 2017 16:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blue-star-connection-founder-john-catt-has-died/ Starting off the record with a juke joint stomp, “Make It Move&rd]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jonny-lang-announces-first-new-album-in-four-years-signs/Mon, 15 May 2017 17:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jonny-lang-announces-first-new-album-in-four-years-signs/ Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Krase has spent three decades in the Houston, Texas music scene. A self-taught, ace harmonica player, he spent time with Jerry Lightfoot and The Essentials, and Ma]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/steve-krase-rocks-it-again-we-shouldve-seen-it-coming/Mon, 15 May 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/steve-krase-rocks-it-again-we-shouldve-seen-it-coming/ Here in part two of our conversation, Albright discusses why Jack W]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/third-man-recording-artist-todd-albright-amp-his-guitar-revival-ndash-part-2/Fri, 12 May 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/third-man-recording-artist-todd-albright-amp-his-guitar-revival-ndash-part-2/ The companion film, The American Epic Sessions, showcases an all-star roster of contemporary artists, led by Jack White, and T Bone Burnett, replicating t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/american-epic-premieres-may-16-on-pbs/Fri, 12 May 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/american-epic-premieres-may-16-on-pbs/ Memphis, TN  – Here are your winners for the 38th Blues Music Awards. Winners are in bold blue type.
38th Blues Music Award Winners
Acoustic AlbumEric Bibb – The Happiest Man in the WorldFiona Boyes – Professin&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/here-are-your-2017-blues-music-awards-winners/Thu, 11 May 2017 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/here-are-your-2017-blues-music-awards-winners/ Moser is also fortunate to be able to write and perform music including blues, swing, and more. He also writes brilliant and pointed social commentary songs in the sp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/anthony-mosers-new-ep-in-the-mean-time-looks-around-us/Wed, 10 May 2017 22:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/anthony-mosers-new-ep-in-the-mean-time-looks-around-us/ Recorded at Echophone Studios in Shepherd’s hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, and produced by Shepherd with Marshall Altman, the album was largely recorded live in the studio to analog tape. Lay It On Down features his long-time lead vocalist No]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-kenny-wayne-shepherd-album-drops-in-august/Wed, 10 May 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-kenny-wayne-shepherd-album-drops-in-august/ 1. Ana Popovic was born on May 13th, 1976 in the old town of Belgrade, Serbia (at the time, Yugoslavia). Her father, Milutin, plays both guitar, and bass, and often invited friends to the house for jam sessions. He also had an impressive collection]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-ana-popovic/Wed, 10 May 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-ana-popovic/ Guy Drums, who played with The Michael Packer Blues Band for ten]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesman-and-peace-activist-michael-packer-passes/Tue, 09 May 2017 20:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bluesman-and-peace-activist-michael-packer-passes/ Moving to Florida from Columbus, Ohio after college, Mitchell worked in a restaurant, and sang with a soul band at night. Her blues and soul loving father made sure she was steeped in the tradition. Her]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lauren-mitchell-comes-back-swinging-with-desire/Tue, 09 May 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lauren-mitchell-comes-back-swinging-with-desire/ Todd Albright has studied both revered past masters of country and delta blues]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/third-man-recording-artist-todd-albright-amp-his-guitar-revival-ndash-part-1/Mon, 08 May 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/third-man-recording-artist-todd-albright-amp-his-guitar-revival-ndash-part-1/ This event will host performances from the likes of Carolyn Wonderland, Florida favorite Willie Green Band, Tas Cru, Joe Louis Walker, Tinsley Ellis, Marcia Ball, Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory, and more!]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-daytona-blues-festival-lineup-is-out/Fri, 05 May 2017 21:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-daytona-blues-festival-lineup-is-out/ Most people see Leonard Cohen as a composer, a singer, a writer, a poet, an artist, and a painter. In actuality, he was all of those, but truly, he was an explorer who mapped the human condition. Perhaps only a handful of others has done so as well as he did. Of course, there’s Bob Dylan, but also John Steinbeck, Vincent Van Gogh, Homer, Michelangelo, John Mell]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tbt-leonard-cohen-helped-us-see-ourselves-and-others/Thu, 04 May 2017 20:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tbt-leonard-cohen-helped-us-see-ourselves-and-others/ The 37th Annual Taste of Chicago will be held in Grant Park, Wednesday, July 5th through Sunday, July 9th. This year’s event celebrates a different musical theme each day:
Wednesday, July 5th – R&B/Hip Hop Day
Thursday, July 6th – Latin Music Day
Friday, July 7th – Folk and Country Day
Saturday, July 8th – Rock the Taste!
Sunday, July 9th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/heres-your-taste-of-chicago-2017-lineup/Wed, 03 May 2017 21:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/heres-your-taste-of-chicago-2017-lineup/ Currently based in Kansas City, Recob has an impressive résumé. A member of the Gary Primich Band in the mid-90s, he then spent nearly a d]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/patrick-recob-delivers-outstanding-debut/Wed, 03 May 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/patrick-recob-delivers-outstanding-debut/ 1. Leonard Norman Cohen was born on September 21st, 1934 in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. Raised as an Orthodox Jew, he studied music and poetry in high school. He taught himself to play acoustic guitar, and at age 17]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-leonard-cohen/Wed, 03 May 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-leonard-cohen/ The video “What Makes a Man?” directed by Stacie Huckeba, is from Amy Black’s upcoming album titled Memphis, produced by Scott Bomar and recorded at Ardent Studios, in Memphis. Memphis features members of the Hi Rhythm Section – Rev. Charles]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-amy-black-what-makes-a-man/Tue, 02 May 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-amy-black-what-makes-a-man/ Born in Florida, Chambers is quite familiar to the s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sean-chambers-channels-his-groove-on-lsquotrouble-amp-whiskeyrsquo/Mon, 01 May 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sean-chambers-channels-his-groove-on-lsquotrouble-amp-whiskeyrsquo/ The band is fueled by the pow]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cash-box-kings-sign-with-alligator-records/Mon, 01 May 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cash-box-kings-sign-with-alligator-records/ When rock bands further electrified the Chicago blues sound, Windy City artists began giving it back. Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and others recorded blues rock albums]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/strongman-reminds-us-theres-no-time-like-now/Mon, 01 May 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/strongman-reminds-us-theres-no-time-like-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tajmo-finds-keb-mo-and-taj-mahal-in-top-form/Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tajmo-finds-keb-mo-and-taj-mahal-in-top-form/ Honoring historic Soulsville, USA in Memphis, curated collections of some of the greatest Stax music will be released in the near future. New hits compilations, vinyl L]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/stax-records-announces-60th-anniversary-plans/Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/stax-records-announces-60th-anniversary-plans/ Don’t miss your chance to experience the blues, food, and more with the local folks. Visit with old friends and make some new ones!
Performance Schedule:
Frid]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/11th-annual-clarksdale-caravan-music-fest-coming-up/Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/11th-annual-clarksdale-caravan-music-fest-coming-up/ Moving to Memphis with his mother at the age of 17, Bland became synonymous with the sounds of that city. He was born in neighboring Barretville, Tennessee on January 27th, 1930. Once in the M, he started singing with Gospel groups,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bobby-blue-bland-statue-dedication-in-memphis/Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bobby-blue-bland-statue-dedication-in-memphis/ There are times when artists surprise us with an album of material that is somewhat unusual, not being their normal vein. One example that immediately comes to mind is Pat Boone making a “Metal” album, In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy. Sometimes these outings work, and sometimes they don’t.
In 2000, Willie Nelson released Milk Cow Blues, on the Island Records label. The album peaked at]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tbt-willie-nelson-sings-the-blues-on-milk-cow-blues/Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tbt-willie-nelson-sings-the-blues-on-milk-cow-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/moreland-amp-arbuckle-announce-break-up/Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/moreland-amp-arbuckle-announce-break-up/ 1. Willie had several jobs before becoming a recording artist. Although he got his first guitar at age six, and wrote his first song at age seven,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-willie-nelson/Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-willie-nelson/ On his first tour of the US, Knowles purchased a 1932 National Triolian Guitar from Gruhn’s Guitars in Nashville. It has been his most inspiring instrument since. “This guitar,” he offered, “had nearly 80 years of life, and love, before it came into my hands. I just wasn’t going to be]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-single-from-davy-knowles/Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-single-from-davy-knowles/ If you’re reading this and already saliva]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/28th-annual-byron-bay-bluesfest-2017-offers-blues-and-more/Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/28th-annual-byron-bay-bluesfest-2017-offers-blues-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-celebration-of-the-music-of-jimmy-webb/Sat, 22 Apr 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/a-celebration-of-the-music-of-jimmy-webb/ Gooding was a member of the group The Main Ingredient, who had many hits including two of their biggest, “Everybody Plays the Fool” and “Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely.” Police are still investigating the cause of his death. Apparently, a passer-by observed an unresponsive body in the car and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-main-ingredients-cuba-gooding-sr-dead-at-72/Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-main-ingredients-cuba-gooding-sr-dead-at-72/ The 38th class of Blues Hall of Fame inductees will be feted at a ceremony May 10 that will tak]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-foundations-38th-blues-music-awards-week-kicks-off-may-8th/Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-foundations-38th-blues-music-awards-week-kicks-off-may-8th/ April 22nd marks the 10th Anniversary of Record Store Day, and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/25-record-stores-you-have-to-shop/Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/25-record-stores-you-have-to-shop/ This year’s lineup is full of exceptional talent including iconic artists, young up-and-comers, and an abundance of local performers as well. Audiences will not be disappointed!
The festival proper runs from Wed]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lineup-announced-for-2017-king-biscuit-blues-festival/Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lineup-announced-for-2017-king-biscuit-blues-festival/ The just released acoustic video for Marty Stuart’s “Wait For The Morning” captures a st]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marty-stuart-busy-with-new-album-tour-and-more/Wed, 19 Apr 2017 22:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marty-stuart-busy-with-new-album-tour-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/siriusxm-to-air-dan-auerbach-show-live/Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/siriusxm-to-air-dan-auerbach-show-live/ There are no guest artists appearing on the record; Selwyn stuck with the tried and true formula of Regi Oliver, who apparently can play anything with a mouthpiece, stalwart Donal]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/selwyn-birchwood-picks-his-poison/Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/selwyn-birchwood-picks-his-poison/ Fans can also check out their cover of John Mayer’s “Waiting On The World To Change” featuring a cameo from Bonnie Raitt.
TajMo is a historic collaboration between two generation]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taj-mahal-and-keb-mo-on-the-late-show-tonight/Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taj-mahal-and-keb-mo-on-the-late-show-tonight/ Anthony Rosano And The Conqueroos – Self Titled
Chris Antonik – Monarch
Chris Kramer and Beatbox ‘N’ Blues – On The Way To Memphis
Coco Montoya – Hard Truth
David Olney – Don&rs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/fresh-blues/Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/fresh-blues/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/monterey-pop-festival-50th-anniversary-lineup-announced/Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/monterey-pop-festival-50th-anniversary-lineup-announced/ They are celebrating twenty years as a premier winery in Loudoun County. The vineyard, which began as a hobby in 1994, has become one of the largest wineries in all of Virginia. Breaux Vineyards produces 14,000 cases of premium wine every year, made from grapes grown on the property.
In 1995, owner, president, and founder, Paul Breaux, registered]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaux-vineyards-20th-anniversary-celebration/Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaux-vineyards-20th-anniversary-celebration/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zeshan-b-brings-back-souls-protest-album-tradition/Mon, 17 Apr 2017 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zeshan-b-brings-back-souls-protest-album-tradition/ Selwyn’s debut album with Alligator Don’t Call No Ambulance, was released to critical acclaim in 2014. The album won the 2015 Blues Music Award for ‘Best New Artist Album,’ and Living Blue]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-selwyn-birchwoods-new-single-even-the-saved-need-saving/Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-selwyn-birchwoods-new-single-even-the-saved-need-saving/ “It is with heavy hearts that we notify everyone of the passing of our beloved father Allan Holdsworth. We would appreciate privacy and time while we grieve the loss of our dad, grandad, friend and musical genius. We will update close friends and family when service arrangements have been made and will notify the public of an open memorial ser]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/allan-holdsworth-dead-at-70/Sun, 16 Apr 2017 22:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/allan-holdsworth-dead-at-70/ Held at Brooklyn Bowl, this one-day event will feature panels and discussions covering subjects related to venues, festivals, publicity and management, presentations on technology and non-profits, plus a keynote with two of l]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/just-announced-relix-live-music-conference/Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/just-announced-relix-live-music-conference/ Not only is the talent top-tier, but there are culinary delights for everyone to enjoy as well as crafts and merchandise for guests to peruse and take home with them if they find that one thing that really makes them smile. There are VIP areas, beer gardens, a sober party t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-roots-n-blues-n-bbq-festival-lineup-announced/Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-roots-n-blues-n-bbq-festival-lineup-announced/ Born on March 20th, 1946, in Bellingham, Washington, he was raised in California’s Bay Area. Trained in classical piano, he switched to drums, due to their natural feel. After playing in several dive clubs, and strip bars in San Francisco]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/famed-austin-drummer-barry-frosty-smith-dead-at-71/Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/famed-austin-drummer-barry-frosty-smith-dead-at-71/ Tweed Funk will be appearing at Buddy Guy’s Legends tonight at 9:30 PM. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here.
To date, the band has issued four albums that have been well received by fans and critics alike. Their latest is Come Together, i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tweed-funk-returns-to-buddy-guys-legends/Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tweed-funk-returns-to-buddy-guys-legends/ Born Melinda Helen Matthews, on December 14th, 1924, Hopkins grew up in the “Zion City” neighborhood of New Orleans. She began singing in the church choir at the age of three, and at age 11, she called Gospel music great, Mahalia Jackson, and convinced her to perform at a fund raiser. Jackson accepted, not realizin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/linda-hopkins-dead-at-92/Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/linda-hopkins-dead-at-92/  Starting things off is British blues virtuoso Matt]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-tampa-bay-blues-festival-guitar-saturday-crowd-biggest-yet/Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-tampa-bay-blues-festival-guitar-saturday-crowd-biggest-yet/ Geils was born in New York City on the 20th of February, 1946. Before picking up the guitar, he had played the trumpet. During the 1960s he studied mechanical engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute even as he was involved in a trio that included bass]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/j-geils-dead-at-71/Wed, 12 Apr 2017 03:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/j-geils-dead-at-71/ Her other favored selections include, “Buck,” “I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know,” “Tired of Walkin’,” “If I Can’t Have You,&rdquo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-smoking-new-track-from-janiva-magness-i-can-tell/Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-smoking-new-track-from-janiva-magness-i-can-tell/ The tour will commence on Wednesday, November 22nd, at Perth Arena and will travel to Adelaide&rsqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/yusuf-cat-stevens-50th-anniversary-tour/Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/yusuf-cat-stevens-50th-anniversary-tour/ The brilliant “Aftershow” is his first music to be produced and recorded with a band, including Homer Steinweiss (drums), Thomas Br]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/britains-soulful-joe-fox-gives-us-aftershow-featuring-dap-kings-members/Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/britains-soulful-joe-fox-gives-us-aftershow-featuring-dap-kings-members/ Antonik’s eponymous debut album saw him]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-antonik-comes-full-circle/Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-antonik-comes-full-circle/ The statement reads: “The entire Trans-Siberian Orchestra family, past and present, is heartbroken to share the devastating news that Paul O’Neill has passed away from chronic illness. He was our friend and our leader — a truly creative spirit and an altruistic soul.  This is a profound and indescri]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/trans-siberian-orchestra-founder-paul-oneill-dead-at-61/Thu, 06 Apr 2017 16:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/trans-siberian-orchestra-founder-paul-oneill-dead-at-61/ Picking up a harmonica at the age of seven, Brody was already an established arti]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-winner-brody-buster-is-all-about-the-music/Thu, 06 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-winner-brody-buster-is-all-about-the-music/ 1. First, and foremost, Willie Lee Johnson is not to be confused with two other famous Willie Johnson musicians. There was, of course, Texas born, Blind Willie Johnson, who was recording his landmark sides, while th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-willie-johnson/Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-willie-johnson/ Wearing his signature black wide-brim hat, Trenton always looks like he’s been working hard. Since The Cedric Burnside P]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quick-chat-and-a-mad-soundcheck-with-trenton-ayers/Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quick-chat-and-a-mad-soundcheck-with-trenton-ayers/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mavis-staples-celebrated-in-new-live-concert-film-and-record-release/Wed, 05 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mavis-staples-celebrated-in-new-live-concert-film-and-record-release/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eliza-neals-takes-listeners-10000-feet-below-the-blues/Tue, 04 Apr 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eliza-neals-takes-listeners-10000-feet-below-the-blues/ Antonik first appeared on our radar]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-antonik-gets-deeply-personal-on-new-album/Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chris-antonik-gets-deeply-personal-on-new-album/ Brooks’ son Wayne Baker Brooks, who is also a blues musician, wrote on Facebook that the singer died on Saturday in Chicago.
More details will be reported as they come in.
The post Chicago Blues Giant Lonnie Brooks Dead at 83 appeared first on American Blues Scene.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chicago-blues-giant-lonnie-brooks-dead-at-83/Sun, 02 Apr 2017 23:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/chicago-blues-giant-lonnie-brooks-dead-at-83/ Artists slated to be performing include headliners Buddy Guy and Bobby Rush. Also scheduled to appear are The Bo-Keys, Southern Avenue, and Vasti Jackson.
As noted on the PCa Blue site, “PCa Blue is pleased to announce the Buddy Guy Blues for Prostate Cancer initiative. In 2017, Buddy will appear alongside blues masters, daug]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/two-blues-legends-for-one-great-cause-kicks-off-in-memphis/Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/two-blues-legends-for-one-great-cause-kicks-off-in-memphis/ At this stage, Mayall has nothing left to prove to anyone. He is still relevant and in fact triumphant because he hasn’t stopped pushing his own boundaries, and he’s never stopped exploring and expanding his musical vocabulary. That he is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is almost criminal.
Talk]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-scores-again-with-talk-about-that/Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-mayall-scores-again-with-talk-about-that/ 1. Mavis Staples was born in Chicago, on July 10th, 1939. She has been performing for nearly 70 years, beginning with her family’s group, the Staple Singers, at the tender age of 10. By the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-mavis-staples/Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-mavis-staples/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-dylan-agrees-to-accept-nobel-prize/Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-dylan-agrees-to-accept-nobel-prize/ Breaking with its own 34-year tradition of gathering in Grant Park, this year’s event will see fans come together in Millennium Park.
This year’s stellar lin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-chicago-blues-festival-lineup-announced/Tue, 28 Mar 2017 23:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-chicago-blues-festival-lineup-announced/ Trim is slang for female genitalia. In the blues, it’s usually used by a man to express a need or an intention, as in “I&rsqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-trim/Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-trim/ Gregg Allman has said of him, “He can play jazz, blues, Bach, anything. Man, he’s a heavy!” Pinetop Perkins stated, “Now that’s a piano player,” and John Hammond went a bit furt]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bruce-katz-talks-blues-jazz-and-great-mentors/Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bruce-katz-talks-blues-jazz-and-great-mentors/ TajMo marks a timely convergence of the talents of two unique American artists who’ve already built iconoclastic individual legacies that have consistently expanded and extended American blues traditions into un]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taj-mahal-and-keb-mo-preview-new-track-all-around-the-world/Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taj-mahal-and-keb-mo-preview-new-track-all-around-the-world/ Comprised of ten new recordings, eight of which were written by Berry, CHUCK is his first new album since 1979’s Rock It. It was recorded and produced by Berry in various studios around St. Louis. The album featur]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/first-single-released-from-new-chuck-berry-album/Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/first-single-released-from-new-chuck-berry-album/ Blind Pig Records1. Morris Holt was born on August 7th, 1937 in Torrance, Mississippi. Like many other families, the Holts moved to Grenada when Morris was young. He was dubbed “Magic Slim,” by his childhood friend, Sam Maghett, who had moved to Chicago in the 50s, and received the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-magic-slim/Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-magic-slim/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/debut-delmark-release-from-billy-flynn/Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:57:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/debut-delmark-release-from-billy-flynn/ As famous for his afro as he was for his drumming abilities, Hashian had replaced Jim M]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boston-drummer-sib-hashian-dead-at-67/Fri, 24 Mar 2017 04:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boston-drummer-sib-hashian-dead-at-67/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/san-felipe-international-blues-amp-arts-festival-2017-ndash-great-music-food-amp-culture/Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/san-felipe-international-blues-amp-arts-festival-2017-ndash-great-music-food-amp-culture/ Leave it to Third Man Records to once again create this kind of experience for their dedicated followers. Always purveyors of quality music that overflows with innovation, here we are privileged to be introduced to Todd Albright on his edgy and haun]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/todd-albright-takes-us-back-and-brings-us-home/Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/todd-albright-takes-us-back-and-brings-us-home/ Recently, American Blues Scene spoke with Gales about overcoming his difficulties, his new]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-gales-is-back-making-the-most-of-a-second-chance/Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-gales-is-back-making-the-most-of-a-second-chance/ The Reverend recently explained, “The song isn’t a response to any on]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/reverends-peytons-big-damn-band-releases-new-video-for-one-more-thing/Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/reverends-peytons-big-damn-band-releases-new-video-for-one-more-thing/ The Reverend recently explained, “The song isn’t a response to any on]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/reverend-peytons-big-damn-band-releases-new-video-for-one-more-thing/Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/reverend-peytons-big-damn-band-releases-new-video-for-one-more-thing/ This year is no exception. Twenty two acts will take to the stage on May 5th, and 6th,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/moulin-blues-festival-comes-to-ospel-in-may/Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/moulin-blues-festival-comes-to-ospel-in-may/ Pitsicalis and his]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hendrix-sues-serial-infringer-andrew-pitsicalis/Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/hendrix-sues-serial-infringer-andrew-pitsicalis/ Wit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rock-n-roll-founding-father-chuck-berry-dead-at-90/Sun, 19 Mar 2017 05:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rock-n-roll-founding-father-chuck-berry-dead-at-90/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/smithsonian-folkways-to-release-classic-piedmont-blues/Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/smithsonian-folkways-to-release-classic-piedmont-blues/ Born James Henry Cotton on July 1, 1934 (or 1935), in Tunica, Mississippi, harmonica player extraordinaire, singer, composer, and bandleader “James Cotton” would come to represent a a standard of excellence in blues and rock harmonica playing.
During the course of a storied career that spanned six decades, Cotton perfor]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/harmonica-master-james-cotton-dead-at-81/Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/harmonica-master-james-cotton-dead-at-81/ Harman’s point is unmistakably driven home on her sophomore release, People We Become. Then again, sounding old isn’t always a terrible thing. Though touted as a soul/blues album, the n]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jo-harman-hits-with-people-we-become/Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jo-harman-hits-with-people-we-become/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/inmate-donates-his-artwork-to-help-local-radio-station-raise-money/Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/inmate-donates-his-artwork-to-help-local-radio-station-raise-money/ Perhaps you’re also familiar with the Heather Gillis Band, which features elements of rock, soul, blues, and even a little jazz. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the versatil]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/heather-gillis-is-going-back-to-the-future/Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/heather-gillis-is-going-back-to-the-future/ ‘TajMo’ is a historic collaboration between t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taj-mahal-and-keb-mo-announce-joint-tour-as-tajmo/Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/taj-mahal-and-keb-mo-announce-joint-tour-as-tajmo/ Enter the “Ambassador of the Blues,” Guy Davis, and Italian harmonica master, Fabrizio Poggi. Their upcoming album release, Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train – A Look Back at Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lsquosonny-amp-browniersquos-last-trainrsquo-a-loving-tribute/Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lsquosonny-amp-browniersquos-last-trainrsquo-a-loving-tribute/ Gregg Allman by Alberto Cabello“It has been determined that Gregg will not be touring in 2017.  For those of you who purchased tickets for shows in June, contact the ticket outlet from where you purchased the tickets for a refund.”
This announcement greeted visitors to the Gregg Allman website today. So far, no further details are available. Allman had been battling health concerns last year, canceling several shows in August of 2016 due to pneumonia.
He then played a cou]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gregg-allman-cancels-shows-will-not-tour-in-2017/Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gregg-allman-cancels-shows-will-not-tour-in-2017/ 1. The son of a church deacon, Henry Gray began playing piano at the age of eight. Due to t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-henry-gray/Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-henry-gray/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/samantha-fish-grows-with-new-skills-and-a-fresh-new-sound/Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/samantha-fish-grows-with-new-skills-and-a-fresh-new-sound/ “I’ve always found my old National guitar to be such an inspiring instrument,” he shares. “It’s always given that ‘instant mojo’ to every track I’ve]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/davy-knowles-announces-1932-ep/Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/davy-knowles-announces-1932-ep/ The film was started in 1999 by 2 professors. Berrett became involved in 2001 to assist, and she traveled throughout MS, Memphis, and Chicago. Th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/help-bring-howlin-wolf-documentary-to-music-lovers-everywhere/Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/help-bring-howlin-wolf-documentary-to-music-lovers-everywhere/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paul-shaffer-releases-most-dangerous-album/Thu, 09 Mar 2017 20:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/paul-shaffer-releases-most-dangerous-album/ All of Salgado’s regular performance d]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soul-singer-curtis-salgado-to-undergo-triple-bypass-surgery/Thu, 09 Mar 2017 19:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soul-singer-curtis-salgado-to-undergo-triple-bypass-surgery/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
In the blues, to trick someone is to put a spell on him or her. Casting spells is called laying tricks, while performing a trick is a eup]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-trick/Wed, 08 Mar 2017 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-trick/ Ware was born on February 16th, 1940 in the famed Black Bottom neighborhood of Detroit. An aspiring musician, even in his youth, Ware wrote his first song, “The Girl of My Dreams,” at age nine.
Although he wa]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soul-luminary-leon-ware-dead-at-77/Wed, 08 Mar 2017 13:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soul-luminary-leon-ware-dead-at-77/ While the two have known and influenced each other for decades, TajMo marks the first proper collaboration between the two artists. The album was se]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/veteran-bluesmen-release-new-album/Tue, 07 Mar 2017 21:02:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/veteran-bluesmen-release-new-album/ Hitting the play button, we are taken back to the times that saw the great B.B. King as the swampy guitar sets the tone in “Standin’ Before the King.” With s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/back-to-the-shack-is-a-soulful-blues-treat/Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:18:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/back-to-the-shack-is-a-soulful-blues-treat/ His third album, Midnight Highway was just released in late January and is his strongest effort ye]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quinn-sullivan-grows-a-little-more-every-day/Sun, 05 Mar 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quinn-sullivan-grows-a-little-more-every-day/ Chills & Fever was recorded, with vintage gear, in Detroit, at The 45 Factory and produced by Bobby Harlow. Harlow is a garage rock veteran member of The Go, and turned Fish on to some of the more obscure songs we found on this offering. From the o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/samantha-fish-gives-us-lsquochills-amp-feverrsquo/Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/samantha-fish-gives-us-lsquochills-amp-feverrsquo/ A Chicago based label, Alligator Records was created by Blues Hall of Famer, Bruce Iglauer, in 1971. He was working as a shipping clerk for Delmark at the time. When his bosses declined his advice to sign Hound Dog Taylor, Iglauer founded Alligator to release Taylor’s first album. Since t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alligator-blues-fest-this-weekend-in-oshkosh/Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/alligator-blues-fest-this-weekend-in-oshkosh/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-lee-hooker-centennial-brings-new-album/Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/john-lee-hooker-centennial-brings-new-album/ Events kick off with a Writer’s Talk by Scott Barretta at 7 pm tonight. Barretta is the host of Highway 61 Radio, a blues historian, and an adjunct instructor of sociology and anthropology.
On Friday evening, March 3, at 7:30 pm Eden Brent performs. Ms. Brent is a masterful songw]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-for-willie-festival-hosts-eden-brent-and-vasti-jackson/Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blues-for-willie-festival-hosts-eden-brent-and-vasti-jackson/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-premiere-evan-taylor-jones-all-mine/Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/exclusive-premiere-evan-taylor-jones-all-mine/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-top-has-legs-and-they-know-how-to-use-them/Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:43:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/zz-top-has-legs-and-they-know-how-to-use-them/ Reverend Peyton is a big man, from rural Indiana. His specialty, with his Big Damn]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-gospel-according-to-reverend-peyton/Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-gospel-according-to-reverend-peyton/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
A toby is a good-luck charm or amulet. In Flash of the Spirit, art historian Robert Farris Thompson speculated that the word toby was pro]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-toby/Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:20:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-toby/ On Don’t Give Up On Love, Bryant is joined by multiple generations of Memphis studio luminaries, including Hi Rhythm Section members Charles Hodges (organ)]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/memphis-soul-survivor-don-bryant-returns-at-74/Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/memphis-soul-survivor-don-bryant-returns-at-74/ Dawn Tyler Watson had three months to recuperate from her triple bypass before competing in this year’s International Blues Challenge. She may have thought that was enough time, but her doctor didn’t.
“He said, ‘Dawn, if you’re on stage and you feel any pain, any chest pain, I don’t care if you’re in the middle of a song, you need to stop, go sit down, squirt this shit under you]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-winner-dawn-tyler-watson-changes-the-game/Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-winner-dawn-tyler-watson-changes-the-game/ The day before the official release, we chatted with band members, as they prepared for a performance in New York. Even in the early morning, they were ready to share their story.
Named after a famed street in Memphis, Tennessee, that ends at Soulsville, USA, Southern Avenue is a unique blend of musical backgrounds]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenue-debuts-worldly-memphis-sound/Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenue-debuts-worldly-memphis-sound/ Being inducted in the Performers category are:
Henry Gray, who played piano in the Howlin’ Wolf band and other Chicago blues groups before returning to his native Louisiana in 1968, has rarely been in the spotlight but has steadily built an impressive resume enter]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mavis-staples-willie-johnson-magic-slim-among-2017-blues-hall-of-fame-inductees/Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mavis-staples-willie-johnson-magic-slim-among-2017-blues-hall-of-fame-inductees/ The Blues Foundation welcomes the 38th class of Blues Hall of Fame inductees in a ceremony taking place on May 10, 2017. This year’s 14 richly deserving honorees represent all five of the Hall of Fame’s categories: Performers, Non-Performing Individuals, Classics of Blues Literature, Classi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mavis-staples-magic-slim-johnny-copeland-henry-gray-latimore-and-willie-johnson-to-be-inducted-into-blues-hall-of-fame-this-spring/Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mavis-staples-magic-slim-johnny-copeland-henry-gray-latimore-and-willie-johnson-to-be-inducted-into-blues-hall-of-fame-this-spring/ Delmark Records still manages to unearth some old gems from the vaults by the likes of Sleepy John Estes and Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup. Fat Possum/Big Legal Mess continues to mine its collection of George Mitchell field recordings, and Mississippi Records out of Portla]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-hayes-mcmullan-release-is-rediscovered-gold/Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-hayes-mcmullan-release-is-rediscovered-gold/ The newest release from T]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-the-reverend-peytons-big-damn-band-one-more-thing/Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-the-reverend-peytons-big-damn-band-one-more-thing/ 1. Isaac Hayes – This Academy Award,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-10-best-beards-in-the-blues/Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-10-best-beards-in-the-blues/ The Plot:
Sun Records premieres tomorrow evening, February 23rd, at 10 PM EST on CMT. The program will follow the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sun-records-series-premiere-set-for-cmt-network/Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sun-records-series-premiere-set-for-cmt-network/ The Blues stage will feature headliners the Yardbirds, the Robby Krieger Band (celebrating 50 years o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/simi-valley-cajun-amp-blues-music-festival-headliners-include-yardbirds-robby-krieger/Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/simi-valley-cajun-amp-blues-music-festival-headliners-include-yardbirds-robby-krieger/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marcus-king-band-lights-up-legends/Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marcus-king-band-lights-up-legends/ “Sweat” draws us in with its lively, distorted sound, while “Baby Rock,” keeps us in the zone with a hypnotic groove that is tantalizing, and the short but sweet guitar solo is a bonus]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soul-repo-is-chicken-soup-for-blues-souls/Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/soul-repo-is-chicken-soup-for-blues-souls/ Honest Woman, on the Sweet Mama Music label, features 13 tracks with a running time of just over one hour. Production and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/honest-woman-by-thornetta-davis-is-everything-an-album-should-be/Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/honest-woman-by-thornetta-davis-is-everything-an-album-should-be/  
Bob CorritoreBob Corritore, Rhythm Room owner, donates the door and spends the entire evening adding his harmonica mastery to almost every group.  Janice (and her best friend Ann Lee-Lippert) gather dona]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-rhythm-room-hosts-star-studded-event-for-the-hart-fund/Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-rhythm-room-hosts-star-studded-event-for-the-hart-fund/ We caught up with King recently and spoke about his new album, The Marcus King Band, his musical upbringing, heroes, love of music, and his respect and admiration for his bandmates.
Barry Kerzner for ABS:
Do you remember what yo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marcus-king-brings-music-to-the-people/Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marcus-king-brings-music-to-the-people/ Although one of his first in-depth acting roles, Keb’ Mo’ is no stranger to the sta]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/keb-mo-expands-acting-credits-with-appearance-in-hallmark-series/Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/keb-mo-expands-acting-credits-with-appearance-in-hallmark-series/ Recently, we spoke with Southside Johnny about his influences, working as a technical advisor and writing for movies as oppos]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/for-southside-johnny-its-all-about-the-fans-and-the-music/Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/for-southside-johnny-its-all-about-the-fans-and-the-music/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/4-day-annual-redwood-coast-music-festival-in-eureka-on-californias-spectacular-redwood-coast-mar-30-april-2/Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/4-day-annual-redwood-coast-music-festival-in-eureka-on-californias-spectacular-redwood-coast-mar-30-april-2/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/4th-annual-lancaster-roots-amp-blues-features-70-artists-on-11-stages-feb-24-26/Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/4th-annual-lancaster-roots-amp-blues-features-70-artists-on-11-stages-feb-24-26/ There will be a silent auction and there is a $10-$15 suggested donation at the door.
Among those appearing are John Primer, Monster Mike Welch, Michael Ledbetter, Bob Corritore, Anthony Geraci, Diunna Greenleaf and more.
For the past seven years,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/5th-annual-pinetop-boogie-and-crawfish-boil-may-13-benefits-scholarship-program/Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/5th-annual-pinetop-boogie-and-crawfish-boil-may-13-benefits-scholarship-program/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/at-83-and-374-albums-later-bobby-rush-wins-grammy-for-best-traditional-blues-album/Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/at-83-and-374-albums-later-bobby-rush-wins-grammy-for-best-traditional-blues-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jack-mack-amp-the-heart-attack-horns-back-to-the-shack/Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:37:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jack-mack-amp-the-heart-attack-horns-back-to-the-shack/ The band in the casino lounge across from the Bluesville venue]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blackberry-smoke-live-at-bluesville-tunica/Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:41:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/blackberry-smoke-live-at-bluesville-tunica/ Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps have been at this awhile and their Bonafide, makes that perfectly clear. The group has been a featured favorite for the last twelve years on Delbert McClinton’s Sandy Beaches Blues Cruise.
Besides having sung for television and musical soundtracks, including Disney’s &ldquo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lsquobonafidersquo-by-teresa-james-amp-the-rhythm-tramps-is-great-blues/Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:56:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lsquobonafidersquo-by-teresa-james-amp-the-rhythm-tramps-is-great-blues/ Four years ago singer Dawn Tyler Watson reached the top five at the Blues Foundation’s 2017 International Blues Challenge. This year, she left Memphis a winner after grabbing Best Band honors. Not only did Watson wow the judges with her powerhouse vocals, but she did so only months after having triple bypass surgery. Her victory at the IBC, the world’s large]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dawn-tyler-watson-and-al-hill-score-top-honors-at-the-33rd-annual-international-blues-challenge/Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dawn-tyler-watson-and-al-hill-score-top-honors-at-the-33rd-annual-international-blues-challenge/ In June, 1964, hundreds of college students made their way to Mississippi. Their goal was to join the civil rights movement, and register as many African-American voters as possible. Organized by the Council of Federated Organizati]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/feature-documentary-two-trains-runnin-tells-two-interwoven-stories/Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/feature-documentary-two-trains-runnin-tells-two-interwoven-stories/ Daddy told me on his dying bedGive up your heart but don’t you lose your headYou came along girl, what did I do?Lost my heart and my head too
Little girl, little girl you sure can cookLittle girl, little girl you’ve got me hooked
When you cook that chicken save me the headI should be working but I’m home in bed
Thinking about you Dreaming ab]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/let-grammy-winner-bobby-rush-ease-on-in/Tue, 14 Feb 2017 06:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/let-grammy-winner-bobby-rush-ease-on-in/ Daddy told me on his dying bed Give up your heart but don’t you lose your head You came along girl, what did I do? Lost my heart and my head too
Little girl, little girl you sure can cook Little girl, little girl you’ve got me hooked When you cook that chicken save me the head I should be working but I’m home in bed
Thinking about you Dreaming abou]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/let-bobby-rush-ease-on-in/Tue, 14 Feb 2017 06:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/let-bobby-rush-ease-on-in/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/keeping-the-wilson-pickett-legacy-alive/Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/keeping-the-wilson-pickett-legacy-alive/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/winners-at-the-59th-grammy-awards/Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/winners-at-the-59th-grammy-awards/ The “Queen of Soul,” made the announcement this week, during an interview with WDIV Local 4 television in Detroit. “I must tell you, I am retiring this year,” Franklin told Evrod Cassimy. “This will be my last year,” Franklin said. “I will be recording]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/aretha-franklin-announces-retirement-plans/Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/aretha-franklin-announces-retirement-plans/ Alth]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sidemen-long-road-to-glory-tells-an-inspirational-and-important-tale/Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sidemen-long-road-to-glory-tells-an-inspirational-and-important-tale/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
Robert Johnson was only twenty-seven when he died in 1938, but he left behind twenty-nine amazing songs. During his lifetime, though, Joh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-terraplane/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 18:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-terraplane/ The project was filmed and recorded in a single night, September 9th, 2016]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-announces-concert-film-and-live-album/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 15:57:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-announces-concert-film-and-live-album/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boise-blues-societyrsquos-annual-fat-tuesday-celebration-amp-fundraiser-feb-28/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/boise-blues-societyrsquos-annual-fat-tuesday-celebration-amp-fundraiser-feb-28/ Winners competed against hundreds of contestants from around the globe and were announced Feb 4th in front of an excited audience at the historic Orpheum Theater in Memphis.
– 2017 IBC Band Winners
1st Place: Dawn Tyler Watson – Montreal Blues Society
2nd Place: The Souliz Band featuring Sugar and Spice – Suncoast Blues Society
3rd Place: Rae Gordan & The Backseat Drivers &nda]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-international-blues-challenge-winners/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-international-blues-challenge-winners/ This year, three prominent bluesmen from our state, Bobby Rush, Vasti Jackson and Luther Dickinson, are nominated for the Best Traditional Blues Album.
Rush, 83, is a Jackson-based blues icon celebrating his fourth Grammy nod, this time for his latest offering, Porcu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/from-mississippi-blues-to-grammy-gold/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/from-mississippi-blues-to-grammy-gold/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/monroe-county-library-systems-award-winning-history-lesson-with-a-backbeat/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/monroe-county-library-systems-award-winning-history-lesson-with-a-backbeat/ Butch Trucks, founding drummer of the Allman Brothers Band, took the stage at the Capitol with his Freight Train Band. The band’s members include Butch Trucks, guitarists Damon Fowler and Chris Vitarello, guitarist and vocalist Heather Gillis, bassist Matt Walker, percussionist Garrett Dawson, and keyboardist Bruce Katz.For any hard-core fan of the Allman Brothers, this proved to be a night of pure sonic bli]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/remembering-butch-trucks/Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/remembering-butch-trucks/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delbert-mcclintons-prick-of-the-litter-is-an-easy-going-southern-brunch/Mon, 06 Feb 2017 20:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delbert-mcclintons-prick-of-the-litter-is-an-easy-going-southern-brunch/ This year, Al Hill representing the Nashville Blues Society emerged triumphant in th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-here-are-your-2017-international-blues-challenge-winners/Sun, 05 Feb 2017 06:11:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/breaking-here-are-your-2017-international-blues-challenge-winners/  
 
International Blues Challenge Finals –
Noon – Orpheum Theatre
Andy T Band Generation Blues Benefit Showcase –
9:00 pm  Hard Rock CafeFor a complete listing of today’s events check here, or download a copy of the schedule.
We want to hear from you! What are YOU doing today at IBC? Tell us in the comments section below!]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-saturday-february-4th/Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-saturday-february-4th/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/beth-hart-is-getting-stronger-day-by-day/Fri, 03 Feb 2017 22:37:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/beth-hart-is-getting-stronger-day-by-day/  
Managing Child Entertainers with Fernando Jones –
10:00 am  Hard Rock Cafe
Keeping the Blues Alive Awards Luncheon –
11:00 am  Doubletree Hotel – Grand Ballroom
Roots and Blues Showcase presented by Blind Raccoon – 1
1:30 am  Purple Haze Night Club
Keynote Panel of The International Blues Challenge: “Blues as]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-friday-february-3rd/Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:32:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-friday-february-3rd/ The late Ed Bradley of TV’s 60 Minutes—upon seeing him perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival—called Gregg Martinez one of America’s greatest hidden treasures. His talent is the stuff of legend and even after more than forty years,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gregg-martinez-serves-up-bayou-blues-and-creole-soul/Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/gregg-martinez-serves-up-bayou-blues-and-creole-soul/ Here’s the schedule:
1/31/17 Show #1: Generation Blues Jam Hosted By Tas Cru web-cast2/1/17 Shows #2 &ndas]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/listen-to-the-2017-ibc-music-on-the-couch-show-series-now/Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/listen-to-the-2017-ibc-music-on-the-couch-show-series-now/ MBF returns in its seventh year, with a fantastic line-up featuring the likes o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mahindra-blues-festival-hailed-as-biggest-blues-festival-in-asia/Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mahindra-blues-festival-hailed-as-biggest-blues-festival-in-asia/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mitch-kashmar-west-coast-toast/Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mitch-kashmar-west-coast-toast/ “The T-Birds have spread their wings, but are always straight and true. Soul music became a recurring style for]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-fabulous-thunderbirds-strong-like-that/Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-fabulous-thunderbirds-strong-like-that/ Several showcases begin at 11:30 am including The Great Canadian Polar Bear Blues Showcase, The Galaxie Agency Showcase, Women in Blues (WiB) Showcase, and the Roots and Blues Showcase presented by Blind Raccoon.
At 1:00 pm there will be a presentation of The Official Documentary of the IBC – Sidemen: Long Road to Glory. At 2:00 pm sever]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-thursday-february-2nd/Thu, 02 Feb 2017 16:36:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-thursday-february-2nd/ 1. John Watson, Jr. was born in Houston, Texas on February 3rd, 1935. His father was a pian]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-johnny-guitar-watson/Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-johnny-guitar-watson/ This is all original music, with a vintage flavor. British blues began, six decades ago, as a raw, electric, interpretation of the American masters. Starlite Campbell Band has taken that sound, and all the psychedelia that implies, and are dropping it like a velvet hammer.
Sure to b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-starlite-campbell-band-walkin-out-the-door/Wed, 01 Feb 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-starlite-campbell-band-walkin-out-the-door/ There will be a Blues Foundation Board of Directors Meeting at 07:30 am. The Pacific Northwest Showcase begins at 11:00 am, and the Roots and Blues Showcase presented by Blind Raccoon begins at 11:30 am.
Also today, there will be a Health Fair and Screenings event from noon through 2:30 pm. IBC Act Check-In also takes place from noon until 2:30 pm.
Other highlights include the Yout]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-wednesday-february-1st/Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-wednesday-february-1st/ And so The Blues Foundation felt it a fitting place to begin the IBC as we welcome artists from around the world to perform on the night before The Challenge officially begins. The]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-tuesday-january-31st/Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:43:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ibc-2017-schedule-tuesday-january-31st/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
According to country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter Big Bill Broonzy, a sweetback papa was a man who avoided manual labor by play]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-sweetback-papa/Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-sweetback-papa/ There are dozens of artists, in the world of music, under the age of 30. The pop charts are filled with them. There are genres, however, in which an artist must rely less on production wizardry, and more on natural-born talent, and dedication to craft. So it is in the scho]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ten-young-stars-in-the-galaxy-of-blues-roots-amp-soul/Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/ten-young-stars-in-the-galaxy-of-blues-roots-amp-soul/ Mid-Century Modern is a thirteen]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/al-basils-mid-century-modern-has-something-for-everyone/Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/al-basils-mid-century-modern-has-something-for-everyone/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-wib-showcase-celebrates-women-in-blues-during-ibc/Sun, 29 Jan 2017 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/2017-wib-showcase-celebrates-women-in-blues-during-ibc/ St. Louis, MO – January 27, 2017: The National Blues Museum announced today that in celebration of Black History Month, it is hosting the “Great Migration Tour: Celebrating the Sounds of Mississippi, Chicago and St. Louis” with concerts on Friday, February 24 and Saturday, February 25, 2017. The shows will feature 2016 Grammy nominee Vasti Jackson from Mississippi, St. Louis blues prodigy, Marquise Knox, and American Bluesman and educator from the South Side of Chicago,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/national-blues-museum-to-host-great-migration-tour-celebrating-the-sounds-of-mississippi-chicago-and-st-louis/Fri, 27 Jan 2017 22:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/national-blues-museum-to-host-great-migration-tour-celebrating-the-sounds-of-mississippi-chicago-and-st-louis/ Hart, the eclectic songsmith with a voice like burnt honey, has tapped into every genre to which she’s be]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-release-from-beth-hart-lights-a-fire-on-the-floor/Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-release-from-beth-hart-lights-a-fire-on-the-floor/ Photo: Denise TruscelloFor fans of Walter Trout, his wife Marie is now a family member, just another side of Walter Trout’s life that has been generously shared with them to a relatively substantial degree these past almost two years, somewhat due to necessity, and invariably, out of love and mutual respect. While Marie, as Walter’s manager, had been familiar with his fans on many levels, when he became sick and in need of the liver transplant and the rehab and recovery that f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dr-marie-trout-on-her-new-book-the-blues-why-it-hurts-so-good/Fri, 27 Jan 2017 04:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/dr-marie-trout-on-her-new-book-the-blues-why-it-hurts-so-good/ This year’s 33 IBC officially kicks off on Tuesday, January 31st at the Clayborn Temple, a key site in the civil rights struggle of the 1960’s where Dr. Ma]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/33rd-annual-international-blues-challenge-almost-here/Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/33rd-annual-international-blues-challenge-almost-here/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/butch-trucks-proud-of-allman-brothers-legacy-and-his-freight-train/Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/butch-trucks-proud-of-allman-brothers-legacy-and-his-freight-train/ Bloodstains On The Wall offers an expanded scope of the blues. From the expected Postwar chestnuts (associated with the likes of Otis Rush, Willie Dixon and his father, Muddy Waters), to original gems like “When You Lose Some]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/big-bill-morganfield-bloodstains-on-the-wall/Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:19:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/big-bill-morganfield-bloodstains-on-the-wall/ On January 30, 2017 a Kickstarter campaign for the blues documentary, Sidemen: Long Road To Glory will be publicly launched. The purpose of this campaign is to raise the funds necessary to pay for the licensing of the music used in the film, in order to get the film into distribution. We need your support to do this, both financially and in other ways, which I will get to shortly.
I have been involved with th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sidemen-long-road-to-glory-kickstarter-campaign-2017-begins-january-30th/Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:18:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sidemen-long-road-to-glory-kickstarter-campaign-2017-begins-january-30th/ Quebec blues artists swept the awards with honors going to trio The Paul DesLauriers Band who won Entertainer of the Year, Electric Act of the Year, Drummer of the Year for Sam Harrisson, and Bassist of the Year for Greg Morency]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quebec-blues-artists-sweep-canadas-maple-blues-awards/Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:16:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quebec-blues-artists-sweep-canadas-maple-blues-awards/ For kids of all ages, join in the Scavenger Hunt from 4 – 5P and learn a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-blues-museum-celebrates-38-jan-30th/Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/delta-blues-museum-celebrates-38-jan-30th/ 201]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cibs-winter-blues-festival-feb-10-12-features-16-acts/Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cibs-winter-blues-festival-feb-10-12-features-16-acts/ Midnight Highway is out tomorrow on the Provogue/Mascot Label in the United States, and March 24th worldwide. The album features 13 varied tracks with a runtime of just shy of one hour.The post New Tr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-track-from-quinn-sullivans-midnight-highway-album/Wed, 25 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/new-track-from-quinn-sullivans-midnight-highway-album/ He was born Claude Hudson “Butch” Trucks on May 11th, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida to parents who were devoted Baptists. By the time he was in eighth grade, Trucks was playing drums in his school&r]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/allman-brothers-founding-member-butch-trucks-dead-at-69/Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:48:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/allman-brothers-founding-member-butch-trucks-dead-at-69/ Chaz is known as the “Bourbon Street Bluesman,” even though he hasn’t performed there in years. Born in Lake Charles and raised in Creole, Louisiana, he made The Crescent City his home in 1997.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jeff-chaz-scores-again-with-this-silence-is-killing-me/Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/jeff-chaz-scores-again-with-this-silence-is-killing-me/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-announce-biggest-wheels-of-soul-tour-to-date-for-2017/Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tedeschi-trucks-band-announce-biggest-wheels-of-soul-tour-to-date-for-2017/ Grab a signed copy of Devi’s award-winning glossary The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John) at Bluescentric.com. Also available as an eBook.
A passway is a path frequented by an intended hoodoo victim, such as the path to the person’s doorstep. In hoodoo lore, preading go]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-stones-in-my-passway/Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/language-of-the-blues-stones-in-my-passway/ The year was 1976, and six hours after Martin Scorsese filmed The Last Waltz – a triumph many have called the best concert film ever – the musicians were]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-margolin-raises-the-ghost-of-muddy-waters-in-the-last-waltz-40-years-later/Mon, 23 Jan 2017 19:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bob-margolin-raises-the-ghost-of-muddy-waters-in-the-last-waltz-40-years-later/ Some might find this ride a wee bit too intense for them to deal with in the long run. For Trout, the roller coaster ride has enriched her life in ways she could not]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marie-trout-delivers-with-the-blues-why-it-still-hurts-so-good/Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/marie-trout-delivers-with-the-blues-why-it-still-hurts-so-good/ Jeremiah Johnson’s Blues Heart Attack is an all original set of twelve tunes released July 22nd, 2016 on the Conner Ray Music label. The new album was produced by James McIntire and recorded/mixed at the Sawhorse Studios located in the bluesy city of St. Louis where Johnson grew up.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-jeremiah-johnson-band-has-a-blues-heart-attack/Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-jeremiah-johnson-band-has-a-blues-heart-attack/ Many artists and musical forms played a role in the creation of rock, but arguably no single piece of music was more influential than the 1958 instrumental, “Rumble,” b]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rumble-the-indians-who-rocked-the-world/Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rumble-the-indians-who-rocked-the-world/ Many artists and musical forms played a role in the creation of rock, but arguably no single piece of music was more influential than the 1958 instrumental, “Rumble,”]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rumble-the-indians-that-rocked-the-world/Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/rumble-the-indians-that-rocked-the-world/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-gales-is-reborn-with-middle-of-the-road/Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-gales-is-reborn-with-middle-of-the-road/ Previous award recipients include female industry leaders Chaka Khan, Karmin, Raining Jane, Sheila E, Colbie C]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/she-rocks-awards-celebrates-5-years-at-namm-show/Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/she-rocks-awards-celebrates-5-years-at-namm-show/ All venues are within 3 blocks of each other an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lancaster-roots-and-blues-festival-feb-24-25-26/Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/lancaster-roots-and-blues-festival-feb-24-25-26/ Imagine a world without prejudice based upon race, creed, color &]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/united-by-music-ndash-performance-amp-workshop-for-affiliate-leaders-and-educators-feb-2/Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:37:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/united-by-music-ndash-performance-amp-workshop-for-affiliate-leaders-and-educators-feb-2/ This will be our]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/national-women-in-blues-wib-2017-showcase-feb-2/Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:36:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/national-women-in-blues-wib-2017-showcase-feb-2/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/henry-gray-to-celebrate-92nd-birthday-in-phoenix-friday-jan-20-at-the-rhythm-room/Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/henry-gray-to-celebrate-92nd-birthday-in-phoenix-friday-jan-20-at-the-rhythm-room/ Mike Wheeler has]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cincy-winter-blues-fest-hottest-event-of-the-winter-jan-27-28/Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/cincy-winter-blues-fest-hottest-event-of-the-winter-jan-27-28/ His life story reads like the blues version of a Grimm fairy tale: a rough and tumble blues road warrior pushes back against hard luck and sorrow, clawing his way into the public consciousness against withering odds, wrestling with some of the most heinous huckst]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-a-grim-fairy-tale-with-a-happy-ending/Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/walter-trout-a-grim-fairy-tale-with-a-happy-ending/ 1. It’s been said of Sam Cooke, that he was blues-born and church-bred. He was born Samuel Cook, in the bosom of the Delta, Clarksdale, Mississippi, on January 22nd, 1931. One of eight children born to a Church of Christ (Holiness) minister and his wife, Sam]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-sam-cooke/Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-sam-cooke/ The beachfront Tampa Bay Blues Festival, named one of the most beautiful festivals in the world, returns to Vinoy Waterfront Park in St. Petersburg, FL on April 7, 8, & 9, 2017, and feat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-a-1000-blues-in-the-sun-prize-package-vip-tix-tees-and-free-beer/Tue, 17 Jan 2017 04:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-a-1000-blues-in-the-sun-prize-package-vip-tix-tees-and-free-beer/ This year’s events will include Mississippi films, history bus tours, special guests, a film workshop, and of course, live music! What could be better than celebrating blues in Clarksdale?
Festival highlights include showings of Last of the Mississippi Jukes: A Robert Mugge film, and A Night]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clarksdale-film-festival-celebrates-blues-through-music-and-film/Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/clarksdale-film-festival-celebrates-blues-through-music-and-film/ The Bluff City has always been recognized as a musical Mecca. A sacred place, to which blues, soul, R&B, rock and roll, and Gospel pilgrims would journey. The shrines of Stax, Sun, and Royal recorded their heavenly sounds for the world to hear. So i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenues-debut-album-is-the-beginning-of-a-legacy/Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/southern-avenues-debut-album-is-the-beginning-of-a-legacy/ You could win $1000 in prizes including:
2 VIP passes to the Tampa Bay Blues Fest2 Tampa Bay Blues Fest tees2 Blues Tees from Bluescentric.com1]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-vip-tickets-to-tampa-bay-blues-festival-and-more/Sat, 14 Jan 2017 03:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/win-vip-tickets-to-tampa-bay-blues-festival-and-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/valerie-june-premieres-video-for-shakedown/Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/valerie-june-premieres-video-for-shakedown/ Chester Arthur Burnett, aka Howlin’ Wolf, was born on June 10, 1910, in White Station, Mississippi,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tbt-the-wolf-is-still-howlin-today/Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/tbt-the-wolf-is-still-howlin-today/ When it’s January in Florida that me]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sunshine-music-festival-jan-14-15-in-florida/Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sunshine-music-festival-jan-14-15-in-florida/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/music-on-the-couch-ibc-shows-with-vinny-marini/Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/music-on-the-couch-ibc-shows-with-vinny-marini/ The Mavericks are an eclectic American band, combining country music, Latin, and rockabilly influences. The Mavericks were founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida. Between 1991 and 2003, the band recorded six studio albums. Their highest-peaking American single was 1996’s “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-2017-chesapeake-bay-blues-festival-lineup-is-complete/Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-2017-chesapeake-bay-blues-festival-lineup-is-complete/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mlk-jr-blues-festival-in-chester-south-carolina-jan-12-15-2017/Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/mlk-jr-blues-festival-in-chester-south-carolina-jan-12-15-2017/ Sugar Ray and the Bluetones have entertained music lovers for more than 40 years, but somehow a Blues Music Award has not been included in the bandleader’s illustrious career. That just might change on May 11, when the hardware is awarded at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis. Norcia and his bandmates received 10 BM]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bmas-sweet-news-for-sugar-ray-and-the-bluetones/Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:57:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/bmas-sweet-news-for-sugar-ray-and-the-bluetones/ Celebrating the upcoming release of Quinn Sullivan’s new album, Midnight Highway, here is this fresh-out-of-the-box title track for your blues enjoyment.
As many of you already know, the great man himself, Mr. Buddy Guy, took a young Sullivan under his wing some years ago and has mentored him, nourishing the initial talent he spotted all those years ago. Sullivan, now seventeen, has since played at venues and festivals around the world, bringing his fresh new version of modern blues]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/title-track-from-quinn-sullivans-midnight-highway-released/Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:13:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/title-track-from-quinn-sullivans-midnight-highway-released/ 1. Born on June 10th, 1910 in White Station, Mississippi, just north of West Point, Chester Burnett grew up on the Youn]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-howlin-wolf/Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-howlin-wolf/ Times have indeed changed for this soulful blues guitar giant. Then again, they have stayed the same too. Brooks has always pushed the envelope in using genre]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-ronnie-baker-brooks/Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/world-premiere-video-from-ronnie-baker-brooks/ It’s been a whirlwind passage for Sullivan over the last several years. His journey began with him jamming with the kids]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quinn-sullivan-expands-his-musical-horizons-with-new-release/Mon, 09 Jan 2017 19:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/quinn-sullivan-expands-his-musical-horizons-with-new-release/ The Blues Music Awards Ballot will be released to current Blues Foundation Members on January 23, 2017. If you would like to participate in voting for the best in blues music, please make sure your membership is current or Join No]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-38th-blues-music-award-nominees-announced/Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-38th-blues-music-award-nominees-announced/ The Blues Foundation is pleased to announce the nominations for its annual Blues Music Awards, which the international organization will present on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at the Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Universally recognized as the highest accolade afforded blues musicians, The Blues Music Awards upholds its rich cultural tradition by honoring the past year’s superior achievements in blues performance, songwr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-blues-foundation-announces-its-2017-blues-music-awards-nominees/Mon, 09 Jan 2017 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/the-blues-foundation-announces-its-2017-blues-music-awards-nominees/ “Tell Your Daddy” is a true blues number that delivers on all levels.  With Sonny Charles providing some hot licks on t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/backtrack-blues-bands-way-back-home-keeps-fans-warm/Fri, 06 Jan 2017 19:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/backtrack-blues-bands-way-back-home-keeps-fans-warm/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-gales-new-album-release-date-set/Fri, 06 Jan 2017 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/eric-gales-new-album-release-date-set/ When it’s January in Florida that means i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sunshine-music-festival-jan-14-15/Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/sunshine-music-festival-jan-14-15/ The 2017  “Buddy Shows” will run Thursday through Sunday every week in January 2017 from Thursday January 5 – Sunday January 29. Here’s the schedul]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guy-annual-residency-shows-begin-tonight/Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/music/blues/buddy-guy-annual-residency-shows-begin-tonight/