B.B. King News

The 2014 lineup for the Canton Blues Festival has been announced. The festival is happening on Market Square in downtown Canton on Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21, and will feature headliners Ana Popovic on Friday at 8:30 p.m., and Shemekia Copeland on Saturday at 8:30 p.m., along with music all day from noon to 10:30 p.m. The theme for the ... (more)

It's a place of dartboards, billiards and long-neck beers. Baseball games flick across flat-screen TVs while patrons talk pinch hits and Harleys inside CrossRoads Grill and Lounge in Cape Coral.

MUSICAL TIES: Keb' Mo' has worked with a long list of artists, including Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Herbie Hancock, James Taylor, The Dixie Chicks, Willie Nelson and Robert Cray, while big names who have covered his tunes include Joe Cocker, Robert Palmer and BB King.

Deb Carey, founder and CEO of New Glarus Brewing Company, will join the festival's VIP event, the first of a slate of seminars highlighting Wisconsin brewing.

SUN STUDIO SESSIONS features today's best new touring artists performing live in the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

Chris Bergson's guitar playing is rhythmic and meditative, but explodes with soul.

Editor's note: After nearly a decade on the job, writer Erik Ofgang is giving up his Backstage Pass music column in order to take on some new adventures in writing.

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A concert by Ron Thompson & His Resistors, a highly regarded East Bay blues group, is scheduled for Sunday, continuing a Newark nonprofit group's annual musical tradition.

The outpouring of responses covered everything from food to patriotism, and were submitted by Reddit users based all around the globe.

The Rhythm, Wine & Brews Experience moved a step closer to giving Indio another event to justify its claim of being The City of Festivals Saturday night.

The word "prestige" isn't exactly synonymous with the blues, that most earthy and gritty music; yet if anyone's earned the title of prestigious bluesman, it would be B.B. King , nearing 90 years old and still gigging at a rate that would shame most of these young whippersnappers.

For decades, the Beale Street Boy has ably served as the tireless de facto ambassador of the blues, maintaining a punishing touring schedule taking him around the world-at age 88, to boot.

Come “Celebrate the Pirate Spirit” March 7 when the Palatine High School Pirate Booster Club presents its 30th annual dinner and auction fundraising event.

There is little doubt that music is one of the most powerful tools for changing brain chemistry; it can make you euphoric, and it can give you the blues.

The reigning king of the blues turns 89 this September and is still touring. He plays the Moore Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Monday.

Former American Idol runner-up Crystal Bowersox has managed to gain more than the traditional 15 minutes of fame by having a voice that crosses the territories of blues, country, folk, and rock.

Born in a cabin on a Mississippi plantation, Riley "B.B." King got his start in the late '40s as a DJ on WDIA, America's first black radio station .

The Uptown Theatre, featuring such performers as Boz Scaggs, is the center of a lively nightlife scene in Napa's once-sleepy West End.

His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth.