Bob Dylan’s touring lineup continues to evolve, with Memphis-based blues guitarist J. Jad Tariq stepping in for the Cincinnati show as Julian Lage departs for European dates.
Bob Dylan’s touring lineup continues to evolve, with Memphis-based blues guitarist J. Jad Tariq stepping in for the Cincinnati show as Julian Lage departs for European dates.
Before the graffiti and the power trios, a teenager named Eric Clapton heard Freddie King’s guitar and found a mission.
In a recent interview, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons detailed the Texas musical environment that forged the band’s identity and the deep blues current connecting them to the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The Music of My Soul draws on a rare 2014 interview to examine how tragedy and addiction forged one of rock’s most unmistakable voices.
With “Paper Doll Live,” the roots-and-blues guitarist captures the dangerous energy of an unfiltered concert recording.
The trio’s first single for Island Records is a slow-burning, skeletal track that maps national fatigue onto a creaking blues frame.
A century after her birth, Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton’s legacy is a testament to an artist whose raw power and identity were never fully captured by the industry that borrowed from her.
In 1967, as Detroit erupted, John Lee Hooker translated the uprising into a blues. That act of sonic agency defines a crucial thread in the city’s musical history.
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