In a Blue Mood

 Roots N'Blues Reissues - Columbia / Legacy The latest batch of Columbia/Legacy's Roots N'Blues reissues maintain the level of t...

Last week I had a short playlist of some of Lonnie Johnson's recordings as the featured artist. This week we have him with other perform...

Lonnie Johnson was one of the pioneers of blues whose influence was vast. As blues balladeer, he was a popular artist from the twenties unti...

Various Classic Blues Artwork from the 1920s - Vol. 17 Blues Images This is the latest Blues Calendar put together by collector John T...

Happy New Year to all. here are a few videos for you to enjoy. From Lightnin' Hopkins and from Blind Lemon Jefferson ...

Jas Obrecht Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar The University of Minnesota Press Former editor for " Guitar Player ...

This is my blues column from the January 1977 Buffalo Jazz Report which had Lee Konitz on the cover. The column had my review of the best...

The Jazz & Blues Report is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with the March-April 2014 issue. I started writing for i...

There is a 'blues revue" called "Ghosts of the Blues" whose notion of blues is pretty unimaginative and seems tailored fo...

BLUESLAND A Portrait in American Music  Masters of American Music EUROARTS DVD  Euro-Arts has reissued on CD the 1993 document...

Another in Smithsonian-Folkways “Classic” series, the anthology Classic Sounds of New Orleans from Smithsonian Folkways compiles a variety ...

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

“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...

Lonnie Johnson was a pioneer guitarist who was influential in jazz as well as blues. he was not simply a marvelous singer, songwriter and de...