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Summer speeds by with an abundance of festivals, but one of the largest of the season is the Russell City Blues Festival, celebrating Hayward's rich blues tradition.

Every Wednesday this summer, we're offering a quick course in early rock 'n' roll.

The Long Beach Blues Festival was born at full strength in 1980, when then KLON radio blues-show host and blues musician Bernie Pearl put together the festival's first edition.

I nearly bawled a couple of times while watching "Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl: The Concert Film." This is one of the most astoundingly artful live performances I've ever seen.

May 18 1911 Big Joe Turner is born in Kansas City, Mo. His shouting blues inspired rock singers like Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

Dave Alvin played tour guide at the Southgate House on Friday night. The California singer-songwriter sang about where he came from, where he is, and offered a peek at where he might be headed.

Monday March 23rd 2009 Global Village Playlist w/guests David Dorn, son of famed Atlantic Record producer Joel Dorn A and Master Conguero & Grammy Winning Bandleader Poncho Sanchez.. 1 CHICK COREA/HIROMI " How Insensitive" DUET CONCORD RECORDS 2 CULTURE MUSICAL CLUB "Ni Yeye" "Ita s Him" SHINE WORLD VILLAGE Due April 14th 09 3 AMADOU & MIRIAM ...

Head on over to The Hound Blog and check out Sinatra's only attempt at one of the things he hated most: Issued in '52 it wasn't so much a rock'n'roll fad disc as an attempt to weld Sinatra onto the sax driven rhythm and blues sound of guys like Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris and Big Joe Turner who were starting to find a market with white teenagers.

Belly Up--back in the day. Kevin Bacon has performed at the Belly Up. Ben Harper Tom Jones will make the ladies swoon on March 9 at the Belly Up.

March 5 1955 In the wake of the continual controversy on offensive R&B records, BMI, the largest organization of music publishers, releases plans to tighten controls on objectional lyrics.

We look back on our past 11 shows and attempt to find connections between each featured musician.

Ellington once said that Jump for Joy "was the hippest thing we ever did." The inspiration came from a late-night party, a convergence of Hollywood glamour and nascent civil-rights activism with one of ...

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

Delbert McClinton Jason Pratt DELBERT MCCLINTON Tonight Delbert McClinton is one of those guys with history.