In a Blue Mood

This installment of Take 5 is devoted to the blues of Sonny Boy Williamson II. The following is taken from Wikipedia, "Alex or Aleck...

For this week's Take 5, we have a short playlist of Rice Miller, aka Sonny Boy Williamson II. A wizard in the harmonica, a seductive sin...

Blues (and Jazz) artists have been recording blues about the holidays almost as long as such music has been recorded. Here are a few gems to...

Cedell Davis  The Best Of  Fat Possom / Capricorn  Arkansas blues artist CeDell Davis is one of the more unique practitioners of slide...

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...

Trombonist Chris Barber has been a mainstay of the British trad jazz scene for over five decades. With Lonnie Donegan he helped lunch the sk...

Born in Tylertown, Mississippi in 1907, Jewell ‘Babe’ Stovall learned music from his brothers and other musicians near Tylertown and include...

Robert Lockwood at 2005 Pocono Blues Festival In light of my retrospective of some of the music of Robert Lockwood in the past few weeks,...

“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...

Its been sixty years ago that John Lee Williamson, best known as the original Sonny Boy Williamson, was murdered. His death left a major imp...