Before Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones, they heard the blues live —and were inspired to change rock music forever ...
In the history of Saturday Night Live, was anything as secretive and anticipated as the moment this season right before Timothée Chalamet appeared onstage to sing the first of three Bob Dylan numbers?
Blues guitarist Chris Cain can vividly recall a memorable night back in the early 1990s at The Decade, an old club in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. Actually what happened after the show proved to ...
One of the great gifts of the last century is American blues. And Arizona Theatre Company‘s “Blues in the Night” is chock full of the music. It is a platform for songs by some of the greatest ...
It’s been a minute, in musical parlance, since the powerhouse blues/R&B singer Sugaray Rayford graced a Santa Barbara stage. It’s been 11 years, to be exact, since he and his large, horns-fortified ...
As logical humans, we know this is objectively true: Music doesn’t have a temperature. And yet as emotional humans, we also know weather has vibes and warm weather universally = blues music. So this ...
“Blues,” Jimi Hendrix is meant to have once said, “is easy to play, but hard to feel.” It is an idea that has captivated musicians since the earliest emergence of blues in the mid 1800s. The structure ...