B.B. King News

Thursday marked the first anniversary of the night Sands Bethlehem Event Center opened with a nearly sold-out show by alternative rock band Incubus.

The summer of 2013 pop-music schedule at the Jersey Shore is not quite so star-studded as last year.

The fifth annual Mount Dora Blues and Wine Festival will present headliners Chris Simmons & Royal Blue and Thomas Wynn and the Believers plus a host of other blues performers and styles in the three-day event.

John Mayer has recently announced that he will be touring for the first time in nearly 3 years.

The Blues Music Awards were presented in Memphis Thursday, May 9, Among the winners were The Tedeschi Trucks Band and Atlanta favorites Tab Benoit, Ruthie Forster, and Janiva Magness.

Legendary blues artist Joe Louis Walker, who was recently inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, will perform at Dreamers Blues Bar, 978 Pine St., on Saturday, May 18, at 9 p.m. Award-winning blues artist, Joe Louis Walker, will be performing at Dreamers Blues Bar at 978 Pine Street in Muskegon on Saturday, May 18 at 8 p.m. This will be the first ... (more)

Ever since Elvis died in 1977 and his private estate in Memphis, Tenn., got turned into a public shrine, my sister has wanted to go to Graceland.

Portland soul/blues performer Curtis Salgado was named the Blues Foundation's B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Thursday night in Memphis.

In the seven months since Gary Clark, Jr. released his major label debut, Blak and Blu, he's played for the President at the White House with Mick Jagger and blues legend B.B. King , opened for The Rolling Stones and played with Alicia Keys and The Roots .

In the credits for every song on the new ZZ Top album "La Futura" are these words: "Performed by Billy F. Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard." If you are even a casual fan of this veteran Texas trio, the repetition of such info might seem an epic overstatement of the obvious.

AC/DC rarely play gigs outside of their standard album/tour cycle, but in 2003 they made a brief exception to that rule.

Blues guitarist Shane Dwight will bring his red-hot blues rock to The Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St.

He moves with more of a hop than a walk, his well-worn cowboy boots scuffing the wood floor.

Seattle electro-pop trio Beat Connection will take their tour to the Jam in Arcata on Wednesday night as they continue to promote their 2012 LP "The Palace Garden." After their West Coast tour they're headed to Laos for a couple months.

The Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville/Douglas County is pleased to present its 2012 Spring Concerts on the Plaza at the O'Neal Plaza in historic downtown Douglasville, showcasing Harold Shulz's tribute to the Young Elvis on May 11; and blues, jazz and rhythm and blues performed by Frankie's Blues Mission on Saturday, May 25.

Skip Bolen says B.B. King is one of this year's most photogenic performers at the festival: "He has such great expressions." Bolen shot one of Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews' earliest public performances at the 2001 Jazz Fest.

Mac Arnold and Plate Full O'Blues returns to the DeSoto Theatre Friday May 4th. , 8pm.

Belgrade-born blues guitarist Ana Popovic wowed a New Orleans Jazz Fest crowd this afternoon with her agile shredding and soulful voice, showing you don't need Southern roots to create fiery blues.

In the credits for every song on the new ZZ Top album "La Futura" - listed before everything, in fact, save for the title and running time - are these words: "Performed by Billy F. Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard." If you are even a casual fan of this veteran Texas trio, the repetition of such info might seem an epic overstatement of the obvious.

Formed in 2010, Tedeschi Trucks Band has amassed in three years accolades and achievements worthy of an entire career, including the Grammy-winning "Revelator," dazzling live followup "Everbody's Talkin'," and four Blues Music Awards.