“It’s good and natural for people who love all rock and pop to step back and hear the blues innovators who lay the groundwork for so many modern styles of music. And you can be surprised by how not-academic these old records can sound.”

Johnny Iguana: Chicago-Style At…

“My drive comes from my subconscious plus I am a competitive person so I push hard to get my voice and music heard and to do significant work, and I want to leave a legacy.”

Otis Taylor: Trance Blues

Otis Taylor is a…

"The blues is a long, hard road and nobody said it would be easy, make you a lot of money, super stardom or anything else. Therefore I've never expected that from this music."

Mark Hummel: A True Blues Believer!

Grammy-nominted Harmonica man, singer, songwriter, bandleader, author, and impresario MARK HUMMEL was born in New Haven, CT but moved to…

"Blues is not only music, it's a feeling. Some people assume they don't like the Blues, but then they'll be at a gig and come up and say "I never thought I liked the Blues, but damn I love the Blues and what I'm hearing tonight." Blues may not be as popular as it once was, but I don't  think it's dying, either."

Sean Chambers:

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"I guess that I regret seeing blues get removed from the regional life experiences that created it. I fear that it is and will continue to be more homogenized."

Steve Howell: Jazz Vehicle, Blues Wheels

When Steve Howell first heard Mississippi John Hurt's happy style of fingerpicking country blues in 1965 at the age of thirteen, he…

"Southern music is the music of the world. Blues, Soul, Jazz, Country, Zydeco, Rock & Roll, R & B. Improvisational music of any kind. We owe it all to the Mississippi River."

Rob Robinson: Welcome to the BluesLand

Bluesland Theme Park (Release Day: February 21st, 2025) is an exotic blues 11-tracks album filled…

”Music should bring joy to the people and lift their spirit. If you sing the truth about the facts of life it should soothe peoples soul and make them feel better.”

Michael van Merwyk: Blues n’ Slide

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"I would hope that my music would make a lonely person feel less alone. That it would help them feel seen. Music is such a shared experience, both between the musicians playing together, and between the musicians and the audience. Even when someone is listening to my music alone in a room, I would want them to feel that they are a part of that sharing."

Jennifer Porter: Sun Come And…

“Music is the language of my dialogue with whatever is to me sacred. In this context however, sacred does not refer to that which is delineated by organized religion or even specific spiritual traditions. Rather it is the primordial and essential realization of unity which resonates at the deepest level of the being of each and every one of us and which emanates into the world as light.”…

"I certainly miss getting to play with legendary blues men and women that have passed on. I have a song on my first album, Mississippi Lockdown, called “Masters of the Blues”. It pays homage to all the blues men and women that have gone home."

Mark “Muleman” Massey: Blues Medicine

Hard time leads to hard blues and Mark “Muleman” Massey’s life is a…