One of my favorite things to play is a slow blues song, which is something I include in every performance. Each time, without really thinking much about it, I’m faced with two questions: 1) How does ...

Earlier this year, two landmark albums by a pair of the blues' most quietly influential voices were re-released. Mississippi John Hurt's "Today!" (1966) and Lonnie Johnson's "Blues & Ballads" (1960) ...

Lonnie Johnson’s Blues & Ballads gets an audiophile-grade vinyl reissue via Bluesville and Craft. Intimate, detailed blues for hot summer nights. As summer kicks into high gear and the heat starts ...

The successful combination of two chordal instruments—like vibes and piano—requires giant ears and mutual respect in order to avoid melodic pile-ups and harmonic collisions. On this CD, vibraphonist ...

Dave Pomeroy — revered session bassist, president of the Nashville Musicians Association and international vice president of the American Federation of Musicians — is talking about an album he ...

The last time Jimmie Vaughan released a solo album, Barack Obama was a little-known state senator from Illinois and the dot-com bubble had just burst. Though much has changed over the past nine years, ...

This isn’t a book for the fainthearted. It’s certainly not for the puritanical. This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references so scabrous they would make a pirate ...