"I've learned that I can express whatever I'm feeling through bending guitar strings. The blues is a great medium for that and I feel it suits me."

Paxton Norris: Heavy Hittin' Detroit Blues…

"Blues is more about escaping your problems and making something positive out of something negative than it is about feeling sorry for yourself."

Urban Bleu: Experience the lightnin' Blues!…

"Blues music gives me the opportunity to connect and convey my feelings on a pure emotional level."

Forrest McDonald: Human Condition…

"My best songs come to me in dreams and then when I wake up, I can’t write them down fast enough."

Big Shanty: The Blues of Dreams

Renegade blues-rocker Big Shanty’s sonic rain of acid…

"The Blues allows me to express my emotional being in short stories of the joys and pain of everyday life."

Richard Cagle: Voodoo Child…

"Blues is truth. It comes from deep down in your soul and it can’t be denied."

Dave Hoerl: The Hit of Hurricane Blues

Born and raised in San Francisco, David was originally tutored…

"I’m a white guy from a bunch of places, I’ve never picked cotton or been a slave but I’ve been through enough shit to know what MY blues is." 

Gwyn Ashton: Living With The…

"I am not a Bluesman. I am not a Soul Man, I’m not a Country Boy, I’m Patrick Sweany."

Patrick Sweany: Southern Comfort…

Mick Jagger, Keb Mo, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and more, Celebrating Black History Month, Blues At The White House

As part of their “In Performance at the White House” series, the President and First Lady will invite music legends and contemporary major artists to the White House for a celebration of Blues music and in recognition of Black History…

"The blues has given me a lot of experiences I wouldn’t have had otherwise."

Chris "Big Papa" Thayer: Cool Jump

BIG PAPA AND THE TCB was born in the back alleys and seedy after hours parties in juke joints. It's the…

"Deborah Bonham the sister of Led Zepplins John Bonham...As a encore she did the Zepplin classic Rock n Roll. She deceived the song with such passion, it bought a tear to ones eye. To me only rock n roll and blues can do this..."

Noel Buckley: RU Ready 2 Rock?…

"The music business hasn’t changed much.  Manager’s still look for artists for a free ride."

Jim Armstrong: Blues straight from the heart

Armstrong's musical career started while he…

"I really always equated disco with rhythm and blues.  If it had a dance beat… it was called disco, during disco’s heyday. Before that… it was rhythm and blues through and through."

Marty Angelo: Once Life Matters

Marty Angelo worked in the entertainment…

"I think acoustic blues just by it's uniquely personal nature, can be freer and more wide open."

Catfish Keith: …

"Everybody at some time feels sad, angry, happy, in love or lost and in despair. That's why the blues appeals."

Leo Lyons: Τen Υears Αhead Of Ηis Τime

Leo Lyons…

"The music business as I know it has changed in many ways in the last few years & not for the better."

Max Bennett: Bass Rhapsody…

She will always be with us...

R.I.P Whitney Houston

LOS ANGELES - Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown,…

"If people sometimes tell me they can almost hear the music by looking at the photos, it’s the nicest of compliments."

Michel Verlinden: Emotions & Music Captured in the lens

Michael Verlinden is a Belgian…

"Blues motivated me to be someone and to aspire to be something different.It’s important to me as is other genres of music. Well music has affected everything about my life."

Oli Brown: Here I Am…

"I hear the same emotions expressed in so many different styles of music but it’s the way those emotions are expressed in the blues that connects to me in the most direct fashion."

Lyndon Anderson Band masterfully mix up a musical hot sauce of blues influenced soulful funk rock that takes the listener on an auricular…