Blues News

My favorite time of the year is almost here again, with the arrival of the ninth annual Greeley Blues Jam.

With his flowing hair, full beard and wraparound shades, Kenny Lee Lewis doesn't try very hard to hide his rock 'n' roll roots.

There aren't too many Oklahomans in Collingswood, but chances are that many of you have seen or heard from musician Dave Kelly .

Backbeat Books will publish the first volume of Eric Clapton, Day by Day: The Early Years: 1963-1982 on May 28, 2013.

Authorities said early Wednesday that they do not expect to find additional survivors of the EF5 tornado that struck Moore and that the task has now turned toward recovery.

The Monday night blues series at Time Out Pub, 275 Main St., will continue Monday, June 3, from 7 to 10 p.m. with Doug Deming & Dennis Gruenling with The Jewel Tones.

The village green in Cashiers springs to life this Memorial Day weekend with a new festival: Blues, Brew and BBQ.

Earlier this month, soul legend Mavis Staples made her way over to Memphis for the Beale Street Music Festival , which she played day 2 of.

The excitement is building for the 18th annual Silver City Blues Festival, the largest free outdoor Blues Festival in the Southwest.

Pulling off a record that hinges on substantial doses of both intensity and airiness requires an especially deft hand.

The countdown to the Northside Festival has officially begun! In less than 30 days, more than 350 bands will descend on Williamsburg and Greenpoint for four long days and even longer nights.

The following content is related to the July 2013 issue of Guitar World . For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store .

Photos from the weekend's Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival already appear online through Instagram, using the hashtag #chesapeakebaybluesfestival and #chesapeakebaybluesfest . If you have your own photos on Instagram, tag them with the above hashes and they'll appear in this gallery.

The Northwest Folklife Festival takes over Seattle Center for the entire Memorial Day Weekend.

Rumer Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore , is headed to Rosewood in the upcoming fourth season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

One of the biggest concert announcements of the summer, The Black Keys will play Buffalo's Outer Harbor on Monday, July 8. Tickets for the show are $48 in advance and they will go on sale Thursday at noon.

Singer Beth Hart and guitarist Joe Bonamassa have a soulful and sultry new album out with "Seesaw." With her voice and his guitar, the album has all the pieces in place to deliver bluesy fireworks built around some decades-old standards.

Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness, according to his daughter.

Sun-burnt and loaded with antihistamines, The Spin stumbled into The Basement Saturday night to find we'd already missed The Grenadines, a versatile sextet who brew up a concoction chock full of stuff we like: soul, drony guitar-based rock and power-pop, among others.

The song " House of the Rising Sun ," recorded by lots of people including Leadbelly , whose name was appropriated by the owners of a new northwest side burger joint , is the tragic lament of a man whose life has been brought to ruin by the whorehouse of the title.