Willie Dixon News

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

If you've ever heard the lonesome harp playing that graces the Rolling Stones ' "Miss You," then you've experienced the phenomenal harmonica skills of Sugar Blue.

By now, most of you should know how I feel about the Beatles. What you may not know is that I am a fan of an awful lot of British bands and their music.

The Dirty Dozen George Thorogood & The Destroyers Capitol/EMI Any musician who names his band The Destroyers and was inspired by, among others, Elmore James, Bo Diddley and Howlin' Wolf has got to be loved by anyone who owns a bike.

Big Buck, center, aka Guy LaForge, fronts Big Buck and the Biscuit Boys. The four-piece band plays their rock-infused blues all over Southwest Florida.

For more than 25 years, Hubert Sumlin played with blues icons Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, Willie Dixon, as well as The Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry.

The new CD from Grammy nominated blues guitarist Robben Ford , Soul On Ten , hits stores today via Concord Records .

The task force investigating allegations that corpses were dug up at a historic Black cemetery to resell burial plots said Thursday it wants to hear from the owner of the suburban Chicago cemetery and local police.

Investigators stopped collecting evidence Friday at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago where workers allegedly dug up corpses and resold burial plots, acknowledging they'll likely never know the identities of all the remains that were removed.Detectives found more than 1,100 human bones, some tossed on the ground and covered with dirt ...

Investigators stopped collecting evidence Friday at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago where workers allegedly dug up corpses and resold burial plots, acknowledging they'll likely never know the identities of all the remains that were removed.Detectives found more than 1,100 human bones, some tossed on the ground and covered with dirt ...

Investigators stopped collecting evidence Friday at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago where workers allegedly dug up corpses and resold burial plots, acknowledging they'll likely never know the identities of all the remains that were removed.Detectives found more than 1,100 human bones, some tossed on the ground and covered with dirt ...

Investigators stopped collecting evidence Friday at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago where workers allegedly dug up corpses and resold burial plots, acknowledging they'll likely never know the identities of all the remains that were removed.Detectives found more than 1,100 human bones, some tossed on the ground and covered with dirt ...

Investigators stopped collecting evidence Friday at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago where workers allegedly dug up corpses and resold burial plots, acknowledging they'll likely never know the identities of all the remains that were removed.Detectives found more than 1,100 human bones, some tossed on the ground and covered with dirt ...

Last year when Bay Area legend Daniel Castro swung out his truth on his Fender Telecaster, string gliding into the compositional blues of folks like Albert King, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Willie Dixon - the crowd roared its approval.

Some of the greatest blues musicians of the 20th century made their mark in Chicago, Illinois.

DESPITE George Thorogood's crotchety hold on the past, the 58-year-old blues rocker and his Destroyers earn their "world's best bar band" title with this driving record that flips from rock 'n' roll to blues to boogie.

Cathy Ponton King hasn't just heard the greats. She has seen them - and played with them.

Aroots-music triple header comes to Lakewood BlueClaws stadium Thursday night in the form of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp and their respective bands.

ALSIP, Ill. a ' Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have spanned at least four years, authorities said yesterday.

ALSIP, Ill. - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday.