When blues guitarist Albert King signed with Stax Records in 1966, he was a known commodity on the blues circuit, but not yet a star, muc...

The late 1960s were a difficult time for the good folks at Chess Records. The legendary Chicago blues label was struggling to stay relevan...

BIG BILL BROONZY The Midnight Special: Live In Nottingham 1957 Side One: 1. This Train 2. Trouble In Mind 3. Willie Mae 4. In the Ev...

By the late 1960s, Bo Diddley wasn’t the musical force that he’d been almost a decade previous when cuts like “Road Runner” and “You Can...

At this point in time, bluesman Tommy Castro is pretty much a familiar face, as big a superstar one can be in the blues genre for anyone ...

With the vast majority of musicians, by the time they get a couple of decades under their belt and two dozen albums into a career – if the...

It's July and summer is in full-swing, and while many labels have pulled new LPs from their heavy-hitters until the fall, when things ma...

Thanks to Little Steven’s addition of “Dancing with Joey Ramone” to the playlist of his weekly Underground Garage syndicated radio progra...

There’s no room for grizzled old poets in Nashville, just pretty boys in tight jeans and cowboy hats, vacant stares not at all concealing ...