In a Blue Mood

Various Artists  Down Home Blues • Chicago: Fine Boogie  Wienerworld If you are thinking about a gift for the blues lover in your...

Johnny Nicholas & Friends Too Many Bad Habits The People's Label In the spring of 1977 I saw Guitar Johnny (Nicholas) & the Rh...

  Going back over issues of the Buffalo Jazz Report, which I wrote for in the mid to late 1970s, I came across the following review of t...

I’ve known Robert Lockwood since the fall of 1970, my senior year at Case Western Reserve University when I interviewed him for a student...

Calvin Frazier This Old World’s In A Tangle Laurie This disc is is Laurie Records’ second reissue of Library of Congress field recordi...

This is my blues column from the May 1977 Buffalo Jazz Report which had the great Roy Haynes  on the cover. My column was relatively leng...

I have been a bit lazy and not posted in a few weeks. To remedy that I have a couple blues videos from you tube for you to enjoy. First is ...

Has it been 40 years since Mike Vernon had traveled to Chicago and recorded Sunnyland Slim and Johnny Shines for the Blues Horizon label. Wi...

In 1991, the Smithsonian Institution's annual Folklife Festival presented, as one of the featured presentations of the Festival, The Ro...