Dave Alvin and Guilty Men, Interstate City (Hightone)

Dave Bartholomew at the Louisiana Music Factory & Ronnie Earl

New Music from Willie Lockett and The Bluebirds; Live Blues Galore

Lenny McDaniel, Worth the Price (Renegade)

Various Artists, People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story (Rhino)

Revisiting Spencer Bohren; Bobby “Blue” Bland

It doesn’t sound bluesy- a Wyoming native, resident and wandering troubadour appears at a jazz club, playing an array of guitars including a cigar-box-shaped anomaly fashioned after the posh Waldorf […]

Bill Morrissey, You’ll Never Get to Heaven (Philo-Rounder)

Keb’ Mo’: Movin’ the Blues

It’s dusk on an early June evening in San Francisco, but the City by the Bay is feeling like the Crescent City. Just off Market St., two city blocks are […]

Guitar Slim, Jr. Returns; The Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival

The W.C. Handy Awards; Muddy Waters’ Childhood Cabin