In a Blue Mood

Various Artists Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 Third Man Records To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festiva...

Son House John the Revelator: Chicago to London Town The Devil's Tunes Eddie 'Son' House was one of the pillars of the Delta B...

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 word ‘great’ is overused, but few would disagree that it is properly applied to the Delta Blues of Eddie “Son” House. House was one of t...

Preachin' The Blues: The Life & Times of Son House by Daniel Beaumont 2011, Oxford University Press In a year here we have been ...

The following review appeared in the December 2006 Jazz & Blues Report (issue 289) and oddly my comment opening this review still holds...

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

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music Ted Gioia W.W. Norton 2008 It's been some f...

The latest Rory Block album, Blues Walkin’ Like a Man (Stony Plain), is a well-intentioned tribute to Eddie 'Son' House, one of the...

Those living in the DC area may want to make it to the Govinda Gallery's new Prince George's County location at National Harbor whic...

It has 15 years since Columbia, based on the success of its Robert Johnson set, issued a variety of excellent blues reissues. One of note w...