Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music legends as he seeks to keep a singular American art form thriving Jim Beaugez Photographs by Timothy Ivy The worn hands and nubby fingernails of Bentonia, ...
The story of how Muireann Bradley got signed to a record label at the tender age of 13 reads like the opening act of a biopic about a future pop superstar. As a young lass growing up in Ballybofey, a ...
The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...
Harold Washington Library staffer Sarah Zimmerman shares a commemorative brochure from the fourth annual Chicago Blues Festival in 1987. Credit: James Hosking When it comes to the blues, sometimes ...
The blues is a fascinating art form, because its conventions point to suffering and pain; it is called the “blues,” after all. But the individual styles of the artists who perform it draw out ...
INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...
The Kalamazoo Valley Blues Festival is back, bringing two full days of amazing performances, incredible food and cold beer to ...
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