Jontavious Willis Shares a Ballot With John Primer and Jimmie Vaughan
Jontavious Willis performing at the Chicago Blues Festival. The Traditional Blues Male Artist ballot at this year’s Blues Music Awards reads Billy Branch, Rick...
Delta Blues
Doug MacLeod Learned Never to Play a Note He Did Not Believe
Doug MacLeod performing with a resonator guitar. Doug MacLeod has been repeating the same sentence for most of fifty years, because a man in...
John Primer’s Birthplace Marker Is Approved but Not Yet Paid For
John Primer performing. The Mississippi Blues Trail has approved a historic marker for the birthplace of John Primer in Camden, Mississippi. It is not...
Eden Brent Won an Award Named for the Singer She Grew Up Watching
Eden Brent performing. The Traditional Blues Female Artist prize at the Blues Music Awards is named for Koko Taylor. When Eden Brent won it...
Matty Frank and Dooda: Where the Moths and Omnichords Came From 
Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn 
Hot Club of Cowtown Answered a Village Voice Ad and Stayed Thirty Years 
Marty Stuart Made a Surf Guitar Album on Clarence White’s Telecaster