The Best Blues Of The Decade The Best Blues-Rock Albums of 2009 Photo courtesy Blues Revue magazine The Best Blues Of The Decade originally appeared on About.com Blues on Friday, January 1st, 2010 at 08:24:39.
Memphis Soul Legend Willie Mitchell, R.I.P. The new year just keeps getting crappier as news comes across our desk about the passing of Memphis soul legend Willie Mitchell. The musician, producer, and former label executive broke his hip in
The Legendary Rhythm & Blues 2010 Pacific Cruise Just when you think that they can't top themselves, The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise rolls out another high-powered line-up of blues, R&B, blues-rock, roots-rock, and soul artists to
Jimi Hendrix Visits The Valleys Of Neptune! John McDermott - Ultimate Hendrix book review Photo courtesy Experience Hendrix Jimi Hendrix Visits The Valleys Of Neptune! originally appeared on About.com Blues on Tuesday, January 12th,
R&B Giant Earl Gaines, R.I.P. R&B music giant Earl Gaines, the vocalist behind the 1955 Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers hit "It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)," died in Nashville, Tennessee on December 31, 2009. Gaines was
Big Brother's James Gurley, R.I.P. Gurley and the rest of Big Brother carried on into the early 1970s, adding and subtracting members, most notably singer and guitarist Nick Gravenites, and releasing two blues-rock oriented albums -
Little Smokey Smothers Benefit CD When blues guitarist Elvin Bishop moved to Chicago from Oklahoma in 1960, the cover story given his parents was that he was going to the Windy City to go to college. In reality, Bishop had a
Blue Farewells: Those We Lost In 2009 From the "Queen of the Chicago Blues," Koko Taylor to John Cephas and Willie King, the blues world lost a wealth of talent this year. Too many aging (and more than a few young) artists passed away,
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