In a Blue Mood

Just a heads up that issue 30 of the genre-spanning hip hop journal, waxpoetics is out and it is titled The Rock Issue . The two covers ar...

Big James Montgomery IMG_1210.JPG Originally uploaded by NoVARon One of the real pleasant surprises of the 2006 Pocono Blues Festival was th...

Arkansas native Michael Burks muscular new Alligator album, “Iron Man,” should readily appeal to fans of modern hard rocking blues. Burks fo...

Alberta Adams is truly Detroit’s Blues Queen. A dancer who became a singer when the vocalist did not show up, she has become the grande dame...

Wolfman Washington is one of my favorite artists and when he was signed to Point Blank there was hope his career would reach new heights. Un...

2008-0809_Homemade_Jamz_at_Surf_Club-251 Originally uploaded by NoVARon Saturday evening, August 9, The Perry clan made their way to Surf Cl...

Playing with Booba Barnes as a teenager, and later recording for Fat Possum, while touring with R.l. Burnside, Jr. Kimbrough and others, Mis...

Here is a review of a very talented Washington DC based vocalist, Janine Gilbert-Carter that is of note. I also selected this as an outstand...

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...

The late Illinois Jacquet certainly left his mark on musical history with so many outstanding recordings. The Man I Love is a marvelous reis...

Its the centennial for the great Louis Jordan (1908-1975) whose influence still can be felt in today's music. The vocalist and his wonde...

The title track of the new Delta Groove CD by the Jackie Payne-Steve Edmonson Band, Overnight Sensation , quickly dispels that myth as Payne...

Much has been made about the family band from Mississippi, The Homemade Jamz Blues Band who were runners up at the Blues Foundation's In...

20080625-2008_Smithsonian_Folklife_Festival-1085 Originally uploaded by NoVARon Texas, along with Bhutan and NASA (yes NASA) are featured at...

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...

Shout out to praise a publication I discovered this year at Barnes & Noble's magazine rack. waxpoetics™ is a magazine that certainly...

It was not as full a day of blues, Saturday July 14, as I was hoping, but the first John Jackson Blues Foundation presented by the Tinner Hi...

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...

Here is a link from the website allaboutjazz.com . Pertinent quote from the story, " “We're doing everything we can to eliminate ja...

The awards can be found on the Jazz Journalists Association's webpage, www.jazzhouse.org . Some notable winners include: Record of the y...