Todd Albright did his research at the local library in his teen years, but not by taking out books — he checked out reissued blues records and was fascinated by what he heard in the grooves of those ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Philip Barker Muireann Bradley may be a 18-year-old acoustic guitarist from rural Ireland ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Future/Phil Barker With an ultra-clean fingerpicking technique and a vocal delivery that ...

In his heyday, Curley Mays was known as a guitar-picking man with a flair for showmanship. From 1965 to 1970 he played at the fabled Eastwood Country Club, where hazy smoke drifted across the ...

Tom Winslow, a Capital Region folk and country-blues musician who wrote a fundraising anthem for the sloop Clearwater and regularly performed at Caffe Lena, died Oct. 23 of complications from a stroke ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Those who argue that the blues is dying as a musical artform have obviously never visited Atlanta. Not only are we fortunate to have a vibrant blues ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

With the miracle publication of blues researchers Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick's unfinished monolith Blues Come to Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2019), it is worth reconsidering the first ...

The Rev. Peyton confesses that he doesn’t have much of an imagination. Even his name, he can’t claim to have come up with it himself: “That’s what everybody calls me,” said the Rev. Peyton. “Some ...

Veteran songwriter Gary Van Miert has announced the October 25th arrival of ‘If I Stop Moving, I’ll Fall From the Sky,’ his third collection of “Psychedelic Americana” as The Sensational Country Blues ...