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With his astonishingly accomplished guitar playing, Stevie Ray Vaughan ignited the blues revival of the '80s. Vaughan drew equally from bluesmen like Albert King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters and rock & roll players like Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, as well as the stray jazz guitarist like Kenny Burrell, developing a uniquely eclectic and fiery ...

I got hooked on the blues back in the late sixties when I discovered my white heroes had some very cool black heroes .

St. Louis has a bad case of the rhythm and blues New efforts chronicle Missouri city's musical history By BETSY TAYLOR The Associated Press Sat.

HUBERT SUMLIN is a national treasure. Not just because he played with Howlin' Wolf for almost 25 years, including on what is to my mind the best blues record ever made, 1962's Howlin' Wolf .

WHEN TWO IS GOOD COMPANY: It takes pluck and a certain wraparound vision to make a good artistic go at the drums-and-saxophone format.

When Sandford Berman died of cancer in 1991 at 68, his dream of educating the region's youth about jazz and blues through the medium of television did not die with him - it just took an 18-year hiatus.

ONE of the pioneers of rock and roll has a Tyneside date later this month, and it could be the last chance to see him.

In the history of the blues, it's been important to have a good blues name. There are numerous approaches.

Blues is one of those musical genres best experienced live, and the tunes of Madison's Cash Box Kings are no exception.

When Old Man Winter comes to town He's got a special way of dropping in And spreading cheer around You know [the blues] is around the bend And he won't let you down When Old Man Winter comes to town -Old Man Winter by The Moffatts Johnny Winter It's been a cold 40 years of Winter.

Harmonica ace and Nashville Music Award nominee Jason Ricci doesn't mince words or concern himself with questions about image and direction.

Don't be misled: Blues Control won't be grinding out rote Muddy Waters or Willie Dixon covers.

Part of the evolution of blues music traces back to early days on the Mississippi Delta and to visions - perhaps both imagined and real - of musicians like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters sitting on rickety old porches, singing about love and loss and the struggles of black society in pre-civil rights America.

Sometimes it seems like there are only two types of blues music - the type that influenced rock, driven by stories told from the gut about life's ups and downs, and the type that is influenced by rock, driven by long, self-centered guitar solos.

Loading... ''I thought it would be a way to get into character, into the idea.'' John Bigham, a.k.a. ''Black John'' If you go Who The Soul of John Black , part of the Attucks Theatre's 2009 Fall Discovery Music Series When 7:30 p.m. Saturday Where Attucks Theatre, 1010 Church St., Norfolk Tickets $20, 745-3000 John A. Bigham, who was composer, ...

A one-night-only benefit performance of the new musical Low Down Dirty Blues will be presented Oct.

Since we last checked in with StLJN's sibling site Heliocentric Worlds , recent posts have featured videos from Jimmy Smith, Muddy Waters, Cannonball Adderley, Stevie Wonder & Aretha Franklin, Bill Frisell, Andrew Hill, Betty Carter, Tower of Power, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Klaus Doldinger & Passport, Elvin Jones, Don Cherry.

A one-night-only benefit performance of the new musical Low Down Dirty Blues will be presented Oct.

William "Big Bill" Morganfield, an American blues singer and guitarist, appears at the Turning Point Cafe at 9 p.m. Son of McKinley Morganfield , he has emerged in the past few years as one of the top young blues talents in America, playing all over the world in the past 11 years, bringing pure joy to those who have had the pleasure of seeing ...

RHYTHM and blues and jazz star of the 1960s Georgie Fame is set to prove his popularity has not diminished when he returns to Exeter for a concert with his two sons.