With a new Black Keys album, a solo album reissue and a fully-functional label on his hands, Dan Auerbach still remains focused on the blues. By Dan Rys When Dan Auerbach, best known as the singer and ...

Several years ago I was combing the CD stacks at Zulu Records—back when they were located on the other side of Fourth and a little further east—and came across the 1995 tribute album Rattlesnake ...

On August 11, Easy Eye Sound is set to release the new compilation, Tell Everybody! The anthology showcases a prominent slice of and current state of the blues. Today, American Songwriter premieres ...

Townes Van Zandt, who was a very blue singer-songwriter, is often quoted for stating "There are only two kinds of songs: There's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah." We'll save zip-a-dee-doo-dah ...

The bluesier side of Whitesnake's catalog will be collected on The Blues Album, which arrives Feb. 19. The Blues Album includes two hits, "Slow an' Easy" and "Give Me All Your Love," which has been ...

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Ronnie trawls through his memories for anecdotes about blues legend mates like Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry, whose songs feature in the album “HE’S gonna be, he’s gonna be a rollin’ stone. Sure ’nough ...

As well as being the biggest band in the world, The Rolling Stones are also the biggest champions of the blues, so who better to curate a compilation in collaboration with BMG and Universal, of the ...

There are any number of ways to approach this fine 24-track compilation of performances from the ’20s and ’30s. First, it’s an intriguing history lesson, showing how ragtime, jazz, folk, and other ...

The Rolling Stones’ love for the blues has been long chronicled, and on Nov. 9, BMG and Universal will release Confessin’ The Blues a new compilation of classic blues tracks hand picked by The Stones.