In a Blue Mood

Sleepy John Estes - Newport Blues - Delmark The late Sleepy John Estes was among those blues artists who recorded prior to World War Il whos...

Biograph has issued an exemplary country blues disc. Still active in New York today, Larry Johnson's musical star shined brightly in the...

Sleepy John Estes is one of the true poets of the blues, and Delmark has just issued Brownsville Blues . Included here are the first recor...

Some of you may be aware that not too long ago a collector purchased a Paramount 78 of legendary Mississippi blues performer Tommy...

It was a surprise to hear that Delmark was going to release for the first time in the United States recordings made of Sleepy John Estes d...

Former DC Blues Society president Michael Roach has been resident in England for several years now. He has becom...

There is a picture of Jerry Ricks with Mississippi John Hurt taken from a mid-sixties Philadelphia Blues Festival that was recently pub...

One of the latest recordings issued by the Music Maker Foundation is the debut of Shelton Powe, Carolina Blues and Gospel . While his earlie...

Arcola Records has issued a wonderful recording by Furry Lewis, Bukka White and Friends, Party! At Home . Recorded in Memphis in July 1968, ...

The following brief review of a compilation of blues recordings, mostly classic tracks from the forties and fifties from the Savoy label, ap...

The late Mance Lipscomb certainly was an invaluable discovery by Mack McCormick and Chris Strachwitz.. The full title of the Arhoolie reissu...

Rory Block was fortunate to learn her music from (in addition to recordings) some of the masters of the blues idiom from such then surviving...

Colorado based John-Alex Mason got the blues bug after hearing Muddy Waters’ “ Hard Again ” album and then seeing James Cotton and Johnny Wi...

It had been some time since I listened to Jessie Mae Hemphill. When I went out for a few errands the other day, I saw her CD, “ Get Right Bl...

Enthusiasm for blues, old-timey and other American roots music has led not only to audiences worldwide, but also individuals and bands playi...

Sunday July 27 will be a treat for Washington DC blues lovers as Washington native Michael Roach along with harmonica wiz Johnny Mars are be...

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...

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...