"I miss that I was not around in the 70s. The music then seemed more free and less directly commercialized? I may be wrong but that's the sense I get."

Jo Harman: The Diamond Of Crown…

"Because it's (Blues) about something essential we all have in common! Born in the African American community in a past period, but today a universal music that touches everyone who knows how to listen…"

Magic Buck: One Man & His Blues…

"The Blues means everything to me. Apart from my family, the Blues is my life’s blood."

Michael Messer: The Bright Side Of Blues 

Michael Messer was born in 1956, Middlesex,…

"The blues to me is just real peoples stories. It's not a sad thing or and she done me wrong thing. It's and I'm alive and this is life, the good with the bad."

Brandon Isaak: Here On (Blue) Earth…

"I believe that the blues touches the souls of people."

Alex Dupas: The Blues Messages

With a career spanning almost 20 years, Alex Dupas is a Brazilian harmonica player, composer,…

"If you love the community that music engenders, then the jam band scene is a natural fit."

Vaylor Trucks: Fusion Echoes & Fringes…

"We're in the days of auto tune and digital musicians have left a void between the music and the audience. The human factor has been almost entirely removed from the songs."

Sabrina Matola: IL Blues Sorella…

"I miss that good music use to be on top! It was about the music years ago. Now it is not, now it is about the image or the 'hook' or the money." 

Rachel Fields: Heartbreak Blues…

"I think the future is bright for musicians as long as whatever advances in technology serve the human need to stay human and create human emotional music."

Julian Paul Bennett: Blues Meets Rock…

"The blues is a feeling deep inside from your heart to your guts and back up your spine."

Joe Taino: Caribbean Blues

Joe Taino’s interested in music became at the age of 9 after watching…

"Three words – swing / soul / pentatonic – these things are the roots that connect all those musics and all the folk musics of the world."

Vicky Martin: The Delta Lady

Delta Ladies are a…

"Jazz is, however, their music and culture, but also in Europe has been learned  this music, but in any case the music is music, there is the good and bad music, it depend who does it."

Marco Marzola: Walkin with the Jazz…

"It's (Jazz) thrilling to see people make things up on the fly. Improvisation is such a natural part of being alive and being human and it's an amazing thing to see people improvising on their instruments."

Jason Stein: Jazz This Time…

"Psychedelic is a frame of mind, available to anyone, and attainable without drugs if you are open to and desirous of more than what faces the average person."

Marc L. Rubinstein: See the…

"Playing blues is not as easy as many may think. It isn’t a game of speed, it’s a game of intense logic."

Austin Jimmy Murphy: Blues Traveler

Austin Jimmy Murphy was…

"The Blues is very old if we consider that it originated in Africa and Indian music is also very ancient. The depth that comes from age is found in both styles."

Harry Manx: Om Mysticssippi Ohm…

"I loved playing in Europe. Europeans listen better and are very respectful of our music."

Joe Moss: Marathon Runner of Blues

Few up and coming young blues performers walk the walk to the…

"Rock and Blues music is a tradition that keeps evolving into different things, so I think that it stays relevant." 

Conrad Oberg: Peace & Rock n' Roll

Conrad Oberg was born in the Summer…

"The main philosophy is not to over philosophize, but just have fun and give yourself the freedom to wander, musically, down that road, but without the heavy load."

John Cee Stannard: Folky Albion Blues…

"Blues music requires you to dig deep into your heart if it is to be genuine."

Dixie Peach: Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?

Dixie Peach is a group of accomplished musicians doing what they like best: playing…