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This living legend who plays festivals and concert halls around the world had to travel only three and a half miles from her home in Chatham to play this tiny…

Seminal Blues guitarist Robert Johnson’s grandson Greg Johnson has said of Rory Block’s music, “It’s as if my grandfather is here all over again.” As a child…

We all tested Covid-free – Dennis from Northampton, Dan from Newburyport, and me. So we drove north past Saranac Lake, past Whiteface, to Stephen’s place (he…

There are winners and losers in a pandemic that knows no soul. And the winners are the ones whose mantra is stronger than an enemy that would push them down.…

Roomful of Blues, the world-renowned, horn-powered, house-rocking blues band, has been delighting audiences for over 50 years and is coming to Albany on  April…

A perfect night!A crescent moon shone down on a full house captured in a fairy tale come to life at a time when our country has become as dangerous as…

Both blues and gospel share an ability to bleed emotion all over the stage and pierce an audience’s collective heart. The catharsis for both the audience and…

Under rain-free skies, the 17th annual Chenango Blues Fest in Norwich, NY, kicked off Friday, August 21 with headliner Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88's.…

Some musicians just play the blues.Not guitarslinger Ronnie Earl. He's lived the blues, and he's somehow managed to survive the tough times and come back…

Ottawa-born blues guitarslinger Sue Foley hasn't wasted much time. Since unleashing her debut album, "Young Girl Blues" on the Austin-based Antone's label back…

The Red Haired Strangers started out more than a decade and a half ago as the acoustic duo of harmonicat-vocalist Ryan Dunham and guitarist-vocalist John Rice,…

(Telarc Blues, 2009)Otis Taylor is simply one of the very best and most adventurous blues practitioners of the day. There's no doubt that the man is a blues…