Junior Kimbrough News

Ted Drozdowski and his band the Scissormen have a serious appetite for the blues.

Gomez continue to be Britain's best kept secret. Reviewer Chris Schulz takes in their Auckland show.

Don't try peddling all that critic crap about growth and fresh influences and ironic post-century detachment to Nebula.

Don't try peddling all that critic crap about growth and fresh influences and ironic post-century detachment to Nebula.

Don't try peddling all that critic crap about growth and fresh influences and ironic post-century detachment to Nebula.

Blues guitarist and songwriter Louisiana Red has been around for a long time, moving between acoustic and electric settings for his emotional and often autobiographical songs.

The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic celebrates its fourth year with a lineup that celebrates the legacy of local blues legends including R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Othar Turner.

Guitarist and singer Junior Kimbrough was one of the deepest of the deep bluesmen, like his colleague R.L. Burnside he came from the hill country of Mississippi.

Malcolm and Cedric. Photo by Jerry Colburn. FRIDAY 6/5 On the strength of a handful of performances at White Water in the last year or so, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm have built a well-deserved reputation as THE blues act to catch in Central Arkansas.

The comparisons with The White Stripes are inevitable and unfortunate. The Black Keys is a blues-rock duo from Ohio, just south of White Stripes country.

Former schoolmates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney formed Black Keys in 2001. The duo plays the Three Rivers Arts Festival tomorrow night at 8. When the Black Keys plays the Three Rivers Arts Festival at 8 p.m. Friday, drummer Patrick Carney will be within spitting distance of his old school.