In a Blue Mood

This is my blues column from the November 1976 Buffalo Jazz Report which had Dexter Gordon on the cover to promote his appearance at the T...

The latest volumes in Yazoo's piano blues reissues maintain the standard set by the earlier releases in this series.  Dallas Alley ...

I had the privilege of knowing that late John Cephas as well as Phil Wiggins who were cornerstone’s of the Washington DC and vicinity blues ...

Listening to the opening field holler inspired fragment “ Ratty ,” followed by some Delta to Chicago slide guitar “ Believe I’ll Make a Chan...

Word has been circulated that blues scholar Stephen Calt recently passed away. Calt, a controversial figure in the blues world, first came t...

Still in his twenties, Samuel James has become in just a few years a prominent name in the world of acoustic blues. Born in a musical family...

2010-0723 Pocono Blues Day 1-145 , originally uploaded by NoVARon . I must confess a certain disappointment to listening to one of Jimmy ...

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

Born near New Orleans, Eleanor Ellis heard the blues blasting out of the radio, but it was when working at the Tulane University Jazz Archiv...