In a Blue Mood

This is a review that I wrote in Fall 2006 and published in the November-December 2006 Jazz & Blues Report ( Issue 288). I will be posti...

Muddy Waters (real name McKinley Morganfield) was one of the greatest of all the post-World War II blues artists associated with the city of...

Various Artists Windy City Blues  Stax This new compilation on Stax brings together selections from various Prestige bl...

Various Artists Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records; The Definitive Collection Earwig Records This deluxe box set, which contai...

Eddie Taylor In Session: Diary of a Chicago Bluesman 1953-1957 Jasmine This is a public domain British reissue with some terrific blues th...

The latest classic Delmark blues CD to received an expanded, deluxe treatment is J.B. Hutto & His Hawks, " Hawk Squat ." Haw...

The following review appeared in the September/October 2006 Jazz & Blues Report (Issue 286) I have made minor corrections. I should ...

Big Time Sarah is another blues woman from Chicago who has never received the acclaim her talents merit. The following review appeared ...

2010-0724 Pocono Blues Day 2-2173 , originally uploaded by NoVARon . Just found out that Hubert Sumlin just passed away at the age of 80. T...

Zora Young, one of Chicago’s leading blues ladies, first emerged in the blues scene in the early 1980s, and was mentored by the legendary b...

Veteran bass player Bob Stroger is one of the steadiest and most solid players on the blues circuit having graced countless sessions with hi...

If there is a Mount Rushmore of Blues Harmonica, than the four gentlemen who would be represented would be John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson; ...

The following was a review of the 3rd double CD in a series that an offshoot of the Swedish blues magazine, Jefferson, released in the earli...