"The blues is an expression of good and bad in very living man, woman and dog, its with us everyday, all year round, we carry the blues everywhere we go."

Johnny Gallagher: Kiss me, I'm Bluesman…

"I believe the Blues evolves with us!"

Kenny Lavitz: Flip side of the Blues

Kenny is a gifted artist and rhythmic explorer who blurs the lines between jazz, rock and blues. Along…

R.I.P. Donald Byrd

This is a sad for Jazz and rhythm & blues music.

The legendary trumpeter Donald Byrd passed away on February…

The prison of the spirit is often self-inflicted. As I say in my poem, Disorderly Conduct, "You have the right to overthrow the king, whose castle's walls your own hands built."

Frank Messina: New York Poetic…

Οι SMALL BLUES TRAP περιπλανώμενοι, θυμούνται τις παλιές καλές μέρες, διασχίζοντας τη λίμνη της φρενίτιδας, ψιθυρίζοντας τους φόβους τους, αντιμετωπίζοντας τα πάντα ως ένα αστείο, αισθάνονται ξένοι με την πραγματικότητα, έχοντας τάσεις φυγής, περπατώντας στο μακρύτερο δρόμο που γνώρισαν ποτέ… κυκλοφόρησαν το νέο τους album με τίτλο:…

"The beauty of both poetry and music – and all art forms – is that once you tap into their power they never cease influencing you."

Peter Conners: Don't be afraid the Deads

Peter Conners is…

"Any musical genre that is based on spirit from the heart and soul will continue to move audiences and listeners."

Tommy Talton: Soulful Southern Rider 

Tommy Talton is one of the best…

"I am a literary anthropologist who loves people and wants to know their souls and hearts and tell their tales."

Joan Jobe Smith: Tales of West Coast Pearl

Joan Jobe Smith, founding editor…

"My wish for the BLUES is that the blues "purists" would allow cynicism to leave their hearts."

Blue Mother Tupelo: Southerners Knights

Ricky & Micol Davis are a soulful husband-and-wife…

"If you want to have fun, just do it. If you want to earn money, be really good and uncompromising - or forget it."

Hans R. W. Abry: Blues Jam Images

Hans R. W. Abry is a German…

R.I.P Ann Rabson - a friend and great blues singer, songwriter, and piano & guitar player. You'll be missed.

Blues pianist/singer/songwriter/guitarist Ann…

"Blues is the Rosetta Stone of music - a key to understanding."

Jim Colegrove: Poetic Notes & Cool Groove

Jim Colegrove has had a long and distinguished career in American music. He was born in Springfield, Ohio and began…

"If you feel the emotion and the rhythm of the songs, so will the audience.  Blues music gets to the root of feeling and emotion in our lives."

Robert "Top" Thomas: Swamp Blues Sounds…

"My philosophy is…if you want it, go for it. If you fall, get up, if you work hard and you will get it…picture it, if you can see it, you can be it."

Genya Ravan: Priestess of Rock n' Roll …

"Blues Rock is the combination of the soulfulness and heart of the blues with the freedom of rock."

Phoenix Spell: Renewal sounds of past

Phoenix Spell were formed in the fall of 2011,…

"Doesn’t matter your race, color, or creed, blues is universal you don't even have to understand the language to feel its power. As long as people are on this earth, they will sing the blues."

Toney: Live Free, Tell the Truth & Sing the…

"I think there are many great blues musicians and very few Bluesmen today."

The Elgins: The universal language of Blues

The Elgins take a no-nonsense approach to the traditional Blues styles of the late…

"Passionate, Compassionate, never boring, brave and humble – these are some of the reasons that Jack Kerouac is a great man-he is alive through his writing, an eternal beat avatar to the truths contained in Every-man’s life!"

Cliff Anderson: Jack Kerouac, Beat…

"Just life itself. Live long enough and you begin to find blues in almost anything."

Jarmo Puhakka: Inner Artic Blues

Slim Butler is known to his friends as Jarmo…