Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated ...

Britain’s discovery of the blues should have left America red-faced. From the Rolling Stones to the Animals and the Yardbirds, those bands defined virtually all of the music from the British Invasion ...

Legendary Blues Band Releasing Lost Live Album With New Comic Book originally appeared on Parade. For fans of a certain age, their introduction to the blues came in 1980, when two men—Jake and ...

Fresh from winning the Connecticut Blues Challenge, New Haven’s Chicago Dawgs has a fundraising gig planned Dec. 28 at Toad’s ...

With eight members, band leader Chris Vachon says it's like having two bands. "Everything we do is is just almost twice the ...

Henry Merenda, 61, leads The Blue Henry's, a popular blues band in California's High Desert. The band plays around 150-200 shows annually in the Inland Empire and has two albums on streaming platforms ...

In the mid-1960s, TV networks were looking to capitalize on the success of the Beatles’ “Ed Sullivan” appearance. Primetime musical variety shows were standard issue, and in 1965, one of them booked ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Since the announcement of the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, music fans have become more familiar with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, especially its frontman and its ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - This week, we turn our attention to one of the lesser known, but most influential acts from the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction class. It took four nominations for The Paul ...

The Ivas John Band plays at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups in St. Louis The history and culture of the blues is St. Louis is so rich that, even if we could fill an entire magazine issue with content about ...

This story is a blues. A San Francisco Bay blues, steeped in the mythology of musicians like Son House and Robert Johnson -- the former convicted of murder, the latter reportedly poisoned to death -- ...

The episode of Saturday Night Live aired on April 22, 1978, can stake a legitimate claim to being the best in SNL history. Hosted for the fifth time by a never-better Steve Martin, the episode ...