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A brilliant, inimitable guitarist, the late Joe Louis Walker merged Delta, Chicago, and West Coast blues styles with soul, ...
jazz, rock and blues, providing what they call “the New Sound of NYC/North Jersey Blues.” Their debut album, "The Skin I’m In," earned a Blues Blast 2024 Music Awards Nomination for “Best ...
The Rolling Stones' frontman, Mick Jagger, always loved the blues. Keith Richards wanted to turn people on ”to Muddy and Jimmy Reed and Howlin’ Wolf”.
The Celina, Ohio native's musical legacy is long and varied and his guitar work ranged from OSU anthem "Hang On Sloopy" to ...
Recorded live at a New York club, this big-band album features vivid performances of Evans’s brilliant, bluesy charts.
Andy Bey died on April 26 at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. He was 85. His nephew, Darius de Haas, said he died of natural causes ...
This week saw the first official release on vinyl of Pink Floyd's legendary 1971 set played in Pompeii - showing to what extent the British band were once one of the greatest live acts in the world.
Brother of acclaimed guitarist Syl Johnson, the late Jimmy Johnson was a singular player who was a mainstay of his city's ...
His joining them was followed by a performance at the 1985 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival ... his first and only Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album with 2015 release ‘Everybody ...
Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few recommendations from Globe writers and critics, covering music, ...
“This is the highest I’ve ever been – we’ve had four albums now with the great Decca Records ... debuts at Number 1 on the Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart, becoming Jeff and co ...