"As long as we’re all living, someone is going to feel the blues now and then, the music speaks to that."

Franc Robert: All Aboard! Delta Train

A Native Montrealer, Franc got his start in that city’s club…

Nick Curran Died 6 October 2012

Nick was an American blues/rock & roll singer and guitarist. He has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits, The Dinks and The Ramones.

Nick Curran born 1978…

“Burroughs was talking about breaking down control systems personally and macrocosmically. This can be found not only in his writing, but in his life and his reading as well.”

Michael Stevens: The Road to Interzone

Michael Stevens is the…

"When I listen to that kind of music it makes my heart feel good. You can enjoy it in the happy and sad moments. For me, the blues is a vehicle to express what I feel."

Miguel Talavera: Mediterranean Blue(s)…

"The blues to mean is a release, a de-stresser. Playing and singing gets my mind of whatever petty problems are bugging me."

Interstate Buffalo: Southern Comfort

Interstate Buffalo is the…

"Well Blues was a part of my life growing up like rock-n-roll. They were intertwined into the culture that also defined 'American Music'."

Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters:…

"The two things people just really need are education and employment based on that education."

Amiri Baraka:

Walk On …

"When you travel you meet people with different customs and ideas and if you have an open mind you soon find that the differences only make the world more fun and interesting."

Patrick Ford: San Francisco's Blues Gentleman…

"It’s meditation at its highest form. Improvising is the key. Blues is channeling the pain of everyday life into something positive."

James Anthony: Soul Blues Yoga

A natural…

"Blues musician is someone who plays the Blues with more or less success, but a bluesman is the one that has lived with discrimination and suffering in a very specific social situation."

Amadeu Casas: E…

"What I love about the blues is that it allows me to sing the same song night after night, and it never is quite the same. There is room to breathe in the blues, it is alive and always changing to fit the moment."

Lisa Mann: Perseverance to the…

“He listened to music with a purpose not for relaxation – never! Allen believed Aristotle that “when the mode of the music changes, the walls will shake.” He believed that his music in poetry and your music in poetry do change the world.”

Bob Rosenthal:…

“Without a doubt blues possesses honesty of content and presentation.”

Pete Duke: The British Blues Odyssey

Born in Liverpool, Pete’s first band was local group “The Maracas”. Playing a mixture…

The Blues  Round Table 0f 2012

The winners of the 2012 British Blues Awards were announced at Newark Blues…

R.I.P New Orleans "Sugar Boy"

James “Sugar Boy” Crawford, the New Orleans rhythm & blues singer who wrote and recorded the enduring Mardi Gras standard “Jock-A-Mo,” died Saturday 15th September while under hospice care following a brief illness. He was…

"Blues music expresses our deepest feelings which can be complete joy or utter disappointment and sadness."

Alice Stuart: An American treasure…

"I reflect more of a simple version of blues more evocative of Blind Willie Johnson"

Buddy Cage: The "Sage" Slide Rider of Rock & Roll

Sage: An antiquated…

"I think the blues touches your brain and stirs your emotions in a way that is unique and compelling and universal in humans."

Devil's Kitchen Band: Haight Ashbury…

"The blues is always with us because it is the closest thing we have to universal music..."

Eddie Martin: Looking Forward Looking Back

Born in London in 1958 Eddie…