Blues News

I expected my juke joint pilgrimage to feel like a peripatetic wake. Decades ago, blues luminaries like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Sonny Boy Williamson traveled across the South, guitar or harmonica in hand, from joint to joint for just enough money and food to get to the next one.

The sounds of blues and the smells of food filled the air at the heavily attended Silver City Blues Festival in Gough Park on Saturday where thousands of folks came to get their blues fix.

Lowndes County resident Janet Miller said "loving it, it's beautiful weather what could you ask better for.

Beautiful Natirar Park in Peapack-Gladstone in Somerset County will once again provide the scenic backdrop when the Garden State Wine Growers Association hosts their annual Blues & Wine Festival on Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-26 from Noon-5 p.m. each day.

The Red Devils have yet to make an official approach, but it is understood Everton will not stand in their way.

Fresh from a sell-out tour of America, popular double-act Jake and Elwood had a crowd of all ages clapping and singing along from beginning to end.

From live music to farmers markets, there's plenty to do this Memorial Day weekend in Peekskill and Cortlandt: Cortlandt Memorial Day Ceremony : 1:30 p.m. Town officials will honor Veterans with a ceremony at the Morabito Community Center, 29 Westbrook Dr., Cortlandt.

Michelle Dockery just finished a long day of filming at Highclere Castle, the Hampshire, England country house that always looks so lovely on 'Downton Abbey' even though most spring days there, like this particular one, are wet and windy.

Father's Day is rapidly approaching, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is making sure dads can kick back and relax with some great films on Blu-ray this year - including A Good Day to Die Hard, The Henry Fonda Collection, 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded, and more.

His new novel, GUN MACHINE , available now from Mulholland Books, is being developed for television by Chernin Entertainment and FOX.

If television's peerless western Deadwood could sing, it would sound like this. You can hear blood, dust and whiskey all rasping in this music alongside hearts as big as houses, turbulent lives and the looming proximity of death.

Four songs into Lauren Robert 's show at Iridium this past Tuesday night , she was already producing her usual pulsating, percussive, and passionate presentation of hard-driving blues and soulful pop when the show took a transformative turn and reached a higher ground.

Yesterday's post on metal bands better than Sabbath got quite a response. Some people were angry that we would even suggest that there are better bands than Sabbath.

Laura Blackley likes the "bad girl" era of music. With her partners in crime Cary Fridley and Mary Ellen Davis, Blackley and the Swayback Sisters write original material melded with traditional, folk and songs from the '20s, when women like Sippie Wallace and Memphis Minnie wrote clever innuendo and sang the blues.

The first annual Blythe River Blues Festival was held May 26, 2012 at Quechan Marina.

I misspelled my middle name for most of my childhood. I was maybe age 10 before there was a total epiphany, when my parents told me that "Jon" had no "h." That's where it stood for 15 years.

Inside every classical music fan is a metalhead waiting to be discovered. At least, that's the sense you get from listening to Before Perils.

It has been confirmed that Rumer Willis, the daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, will be in at least one episode of the upcoming season on Pretty Little Liars .

The owner of Sonic Unyon Records has worked with an organizing team for several years to bring to life a new Hamilton event.

Blues legend B.B. King makes the trip to Iowa this week for a show at Prairie Meadows Casino in Altoona.