In a Blue Mood

Lindsay Beaver Tough As Love Alligator Records Bruce Iglauer writes, in the liner notes to " Tough As Love ," "I never expe...

Marcia Ball Shine Bright Alligator Records It's been a 50 year run for Marcia Ball performing her mix of Gulf Coast blues and rhyt...

Marcia Ball's guitarist since 2009, Mighty Mike Schermer has played with a who's who of blues and roots acts including most notabl...

  Marcia Ball has a new Alligator Records recording, “ The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man ,” that will certainly delight listeners ...

  Mark ‘Kaz’ Kazanoff may be the best known of The Texas Horns, a trio of horn players who have contributed to numerous fine recordings. ...

This was a review I wrote back in 2004 that likely appeared in the DC Blues Society’s newsletter. While Pinetop Perkins has recorded a num...

The latest release, Victim of the Blues (Delta Groove) by Tracy Nelson serves to illustrate Etta James' appreciative description of Nel...

A new album by Marcia Ball, Roadside Attractions (Alligator) will be welcome by her many fans who certainly will enjoy this release with i...

Alligator Records is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year and as it has in past years, compiled, 40th Anniversary Collection , a two-C...

Australian blues woman Fiona Boyes is as nice a person as she is talented and her talent shines on her new Yellow Dog album, “Blues Woman.” ...

20080625-2008_Smithsonian_Folklife_Festival-1085 Originally uploaded by NoVARon Texas, along with Bhutan and NASA (yes NASA) are featured at...

Here is a review from nearly a decade ago of Marcia Ball's Rounder album, Let Me Play With your Poodle that appeared in the Cleveland b...