Central to Chicago blues was the harmonica. Marion ‘Little Walter’ Jacobs pioneered a new amplified approach, radically transforming it into a powerful lead instrument. Subsequently ...
The Mid-Ohio Valley Blues, Jazz, & Folk Music Society (BJFM) presented its Blues in Schools program on Thursday to Frontier ...
At the new Evanston Folk Festival, honest love for folk traditions peeks out from underneath an Instagrammable veneer.
The Delta itself has throughout blues history been a stronghold of blues ... which had a black harmonica player, but it was pretty unusual. Record players would have been one of the few luxuries ...
After writing New Jack Swing hits and working with Michael Jackson in the 1980s, he set out to record the music he’d always ...
Billy Branch (born William Earl Branch in Great Lakes, IL, on 3 October 1951) is an American blues harmonica player and singer of Chicago blues. Branch is a three-time Grammy nominee, a retired ...
New novel captures a legendary bluesman at an early midlife crossroads, well before the myth — that he sold his soul to the ...
The St. Louis Blues Hall of Fame - presented by First Community - was established to celebrate the franchise's great history and honor the special individuals who have made significant ...
Wilson's huge, emotive vocals and Nosek's blistering harmonica fuel their razor-sharp original songs and unique reinvention of obscure blues classics ... to see a little history or hit a museum.
Blues for Kids, the charitable trust of the ... in the Monday Night Miracle - one of the greatest moments in franchise history - in 1986. Unfortunately, Wickenheiser passed away after a battle ...
Visit dozens of farms in Loudoun County, explore American food culture, or start celebrating Halloween with pumpkin carving ...