Big Bill Broonzy News

Crosby Tyler appears at Dave's Cave in Auburn Friday. A naturally gregarious character, Crosby Tyler involves his audience from the moment he sets foot on stage, inviting them into the neighborhood he lives in, sharing his enthusiasm for Big Bill Broonzy and Leadbelly, getting them to sing along to songs about cotton and other crops, and mixing the ...

The Derek Trucks Band concluded the second of their extended sets at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland, Vermont with "Key to the Highway" and "My Favorite things," each tune a mirror image of the other and an all but perfect distillation of the preceding near-three hours of stellar musicianship.

Internationally known singer and guitarist Mary Flower is highly regarded for her mastery of Piedmont blues, a syncopated, ragtime-influenced fingerpicking style that originated in the early 20th century in the southeastern United States.

Chicago blues guitarist Keith Scott continues his latest foray into Montana tonight and Saturday at Izaak's in Craig.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS -- McMillan Library in Wisconsin Rapids will present Minnesota acoustic blues guitarists Bingham & Thorne in concert at 7 p.m. July 16 in the Library's Fine Arts Center.

Legendary Chicago blues great Big Bill Broonzy was born this day in 1893....er, or was it 1898? Like many blues artists of the era, much of Broonzy's early life is shadowed by lack of documentation.

Danielle Miraglia plays slide guitar and croons about matters of the heart, but doesn't consider herself a blues artist.