In a Blue Mood

I was at the North Atlantic Blues Festival on the dreary, rainy Saturday when Little Milton closed the day's performances with a solid ...

PICT1496 Bobby & dancer Originally uploaded by NoVARon . Big Pre-Memorial Weekend Blues Festival takes place at Lamont's at 440...

Here is a review from 1999 of a neglected but fine downhome harp blues gentleman which will have additional interest because of Boo Boo Davi...

Here is a review I recently wrote for a couple of publications. I made a minor change in what may have been published elsewhere to clarify ...

00740028 Originally uploaded by NoVARon . I already have expressed my appreciation for the late Little Sonny Warner, but felt it useful t...

Its been several years since Koko Taylor has had a new album. This is remedied by the new Alligator release, The Old School . As the title ...

Haywood 'Little Sonny' Warner passed on Thursday, April 12, 2007. The Falls Church native was one of the finest blues singers in th...

In 1960, noted photographer William Claxton and German musicologist Joachim Berendt travelled the United States to document the American Ar...

Brother Joe May Thunderbolt Of The Middle West Specialty The first time I heard this Brother Joe May Specialty album, (reviewed in Jazz ...

Has it been Ten Years since Black Top issued Snnoks Eaglin's Live in Japan . A poorly distributed studio album of Snooks had been issu...

Among its recent releases, Delmark has just re-reissued Kidney Stew is Fine by Eddie 'Cleanhead Vinson. Originally issued on the French...

Tim Niland on his blog, Jazz & Blues Music Reviews has a very interest take on The Keepnews Collection of Jazz Reissues that Concord M...

A really wonderful and thought provoking writer on photgraphy (and a terrific photographer himself) Mike Johnston recently had a nice entry ...

A recent visit to the website of Sonny Rollins revealed that he has available for download four selections from a 1965 performance at Londo...

THE DYING CRAPSHOOTER’S BLUES By David Fulmer HARCOURT 2007 Atlanta based writer David Fulmer authored three acclaimed historical mysteri...

Word has been filtering to the blues community that the multi-talented Paul deLay passed away from Leukemia. deLay had performed last weeke...

Word arrived over a month later that Rev. Solomon Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford passed away at the age of 90 on February 1. The...

Big Pete Pearson While the back of the CD cover for I’m Here Baby (Blue Witch) calls Phoenix based Big Pete Pearson a shouter, he comes acr...

Tim Niland, who has a fascinating blog of jazz and blues reviews just has put forth a new podcast of jazz and blues with a diverse playlis...

In 1991, the Smithsonian Institution's annual Folklife Festival presented, as one of the featured presentations of the Festival, The Ro...