In a Blue Mood

Big Joe Williams The Original Ramblin' Bluesman, 1945-1961 Jasmine Bon Fisher observes, in the liner notes to this two-CD collection o...

Leroy Carr's legacy is perhaps not as appreciated today as it once was. A major recording star, his duets with guitarist Scrapper Blackw...

The British Broadcasting Company in 1979 presented a fascinating look at the origins and history blues, The Devil's Music . With a narra...

Delmark 60 Years of Blues is one of two compilations in which Delmark Records celebrates its 60 years. Blues has been a strong part of De...

The Devil’s Music was the title of a 1976 BBC 5-part documentary series that resulted from Giles Oakley’s travels to the United States....

Back three decades ago, Samuel Charters produced a series of blues lps for the Swedish Sonet label, The Legacy of the Blues , along with som...

Somehow it took John Long decades or so before this old schooled country blues musician made it to a recorded album. Long, a St. Louis nativ...

With a career that spanned decades and one whose music was robust and vital until his passing, Big Joe Williams is one of the significant bl...

Devil at the Confluence: The Pre-War Blues Music of St Louis Missouri Authored, Illustrated & Designed by Kevin Belford 2009: Virginia...

The announcement that David ' Honeyboy ' Edwards is receiving a Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award is startling. According to the N...

This review of Dr. Ross' Boogie Disease on Arhoolie, appeared back in the November 1992 Jazz & Blues Report (issue 176) back before ...

“The Blues Box” is a 7CD compilation of a variety of mostly downhome blues that has appeared on the Scandinavian Storyville label over the d...