VENUE: Live WNCR-FM radio broadcast from the Agora Ballroom, Cleveland Ohio, sometime in September 1972. SOUND QUALITY: Meh…you really nee...

Summer has finally opened its eyes and shaken off its long hibernation here in WNY, which means that those of us who reside on this fro...

A brilliant self-taught guitarist, Francis Hillman “Scrapper” Blackwell was a popular star in the isolated blues world of the late 1920s and...

Born in 1936 in Louisiana to a sharecropper family, George “Buddy” Guy worked the fields as a youth, picking cotton alongside his younger b...

Blind Gary Davis , perhaps better-known as Reverend Gary Davis (the name most of his recordings were issued under) was a talented musician w...

Singer, songwriter, guitar, harmonica wizard…bluesman Jimmy Reed could seemingly do it all. He rode a string of Top Ten-charting R&B hi...

Esteemed blues label Alligator Records has been reissuing a truckload of hot-off-the-griddle flapjacks this year, culminating in this super...

The late David Olney was a superlative songwriter and a natural storyteller, capable of spinning tales with an imagination the equal of any...

The blues as a commercially viable style of music seemed to be in pretty good shape in 1990. The blues boom of the 1980s – stoked by the cri...

I spent untold hours circa 1974-75 playing Robin Trower ’s Bridge of Sighs over and over again on my funky BSR turntable (you know, the kin...

Innovative, eccentric, unpredictable, fickle, high-energy, reticent, talented, pioneering, troubled, unrelenting…all of these words (and man...

In a 2017 conversation with Mojo magazine editor Phil Alexander, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page expressed his admiration for Pink Floyd founder...