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With his astonishingly accomplished guitar playing, Stevie Ray Vaughan ignited the blues revival of the '80s. Vaughan drew equally from bluesmen like Albert King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters and rock & roll players like Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, as well as the stray jazz guitarist like Kenny Burrell, developing a uniquely eclectic and fiery ...

The album follows the acclaimed 2007 album Code Blue, which hinted at a widening musical path.

Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

This story was previously titled "Otis Rush: I`Cant Quit You Baby - LIVE" Otis Rush: I Can't Quit You Baby - LIVE >> Posted By Progressive 9 hours, 51 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment Otis Rush is a blues musician, singer and guitarist.

Attempts to pin a single label on guitarist and singer Robert Cray are pointless.

Normally bluesmen love to jam, but this 1983 Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan session exhibits a strange tension.

Jeff Chaz ; Woody Andrews ; Jim Wattlington . In Exile KINDRED SPIRITS: Rock it if you like dudes who should be kings, e.g. B.B. King, Albert King and Freddy King.

Between the aggressive stalkers and the house-painter kidnappers and the phony wives, the TV funny man's off-camera life seems dominated by damage control.

This is the one to start with if you are new to Ronnie Earl. He has been getting love from critics and fans for decades, but so much of his work, like that Duke Robillard or Robert Cray, has seemed to belong to a too-slick, session-man makes good blues that is high on chops but low on passion.

We are not surprised that Malik Rahim is being hailed as one of the heroes of Hurricane Katrina.

Big Buck, center, aka Guy LaForge, fronts Big Buck and the Biscuit Boys. The four-piece band plays their rock-infused blues all over Southwest Florida.

Over the years, Buck also played with the Nighthawks, Lonnie Mack and Hot Tuna, the legendary group formed by Jefferson Airplane veterans Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady.

In the 1960s, long before pop artists were backed by the generic, computer-based accompaniment that is commonplace today, singers often recorded with formidable house bands, including Booker T. & the MG's and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

Peggy Ehrhart and The Still Standing Band will perform in a program, 'Blues, Beatles and Beyond,' at the Bound Brook Memorial Library, 402 E. High St., at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.

Playing blues at the local bars around Oxford, Miss., in the mid-1990s was more about paying the bills than anything else for Lil' Dave Thompson.

Playing blues at the local bars around Oxford, Miss., in the mid-1990s was more about paying the bills than anything else for Lil' Dave Thompson.

Playing blues at the local bars around Oxford, Miss., in the mid-1990s was more about paying the bills than anything else for Lil' Dave Thompson.

Often heralded as one of the most innovative blues guitarists playing today, Joe Louis Walker says he owes much to the "three kings." That royal trinity is: B.B. King, Freddie King and Albert King.

Last year when Bay Area legend Daniel Castro swung out his truth on his Fender Telecaster, string gliding into the compositional blues of folks like Albert King, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Willie Dixon - the crowd roared its approval.

Playing blues at the local bars around Oxford, Miss., in the mid-1990s was more about paying the bills than anything else for Lil' Dave Thompson.