"I would go back to the plantations to hear the Blues in its most powerful state. Just hearts full of stories trying to survive."

Goldie Reed: Building A New  Heritage

Goldie Reed is a 26…

"Blues is music from the heart and the soul and it has a low tolerance for bullshit."

Raoul Bhaneja: The Big Time of Blues

Raoul & The Big Time was formed in July 1998…

"Music is a gift from God and it lifts the spirit- that one thing that keeps us all sane in a word of insanity."

Scott Ward Band: Muscle Shoals Down Through Decatur

The Scott Ward Band was…

"Blues music is a language that needs to be shared."

Johnny Cox: The Blues of Highlander 

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Johnny Cox comes from Canada by way of Scotland. Inspired by many…

"The musicians of the Brit Blues boom had their feet in the past but their heads in the future."

Robert Hokum: Blues With No Border

Guitarist / vocalist Robert Hokum is…

"I wish music had the same level of quality and importance in our society that it used to have between the late Fifties and the early Seventies, way before this dreadful 'download culture'."

Eric Ranzoni: The Real Roman Thing…

"Never give up on your dream!  No matter how bad it looks always keep your faith."

Dwayne Dopsie: Zydeco Hellraiser

America’s Hottest Accordion winner, Dwayne (Dopsie) Rubin, plays a unique, high energy…

"Let's go back to the days when you actually had to work on your skills as an instrumentalist, singer and/or songwriter naturally without using 'sampling' of people's music who did take the time to develop their talent."

Terry Jones Rogers: Folk Heart, Rock…

"The Blues is about self expression. Expressing how you feel about a certain subject, or expressing how you feel in the moment. The Blues is also about healing."

Arthur Migliazza: Fun With Real Music…

"Why is the blues still with us? Because the blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll!"

Nate VandenBos: Art As A Fingerprint

Kalamazoo, MI, portrait painter Nate VandenBos is a big music fan and…

"The traditional Blues are fading fast and dying. All things change. I will forever miss these guys and what they brought to us. The happiness, the tears, the fights, the good times." 

Koby & Monica Kruse: The Blues…

"Blues to me encompasses a breadth of soulful, rootsy musical elements which, although often simplistic in composition, are very powerful in their execution."

Brandon O. Bailey: Memphis Grooves…

"The blues makes you balance your life better as it offers you a soothing feeling of confronting life’s hardships."

Blues Cargo: Blame It All On The Blues

Blues Cargo is an electric Greek…

"I think blues has evolved over the years and has done so to fit in with modern times."

The Mentulls: British Blues Breaths

Unapologetically rooted in the 60's but infused with a boundless…

"In my world, art and music are all connected.  I visualize what I want to see and hear."

Laurie Sidis: Rock n' Roll Fantasy

Laurie Sidis is an accomplished artist, designer, musician,…

"I think soul and blues music is introspective, it helps you examine your thoughts and situation, make decisions based and your thoughts and hopefully come out the better for it. It helps you put things in perspective."

Willie West: Soul Survivor, R&B…

"The Blues is the lifeblood of most forms of music and I find my everyday life is affected by the heartfelt feelings that the music exposes me to. Blues means freedom to express and I do."

Brothers Groove: Let The Good Times Roll…

"I hope that the public at large will begin to gravitate back towards more organic, rootsy artists and bands that can actually reproduce the sounds on their records in a live setting."

Scott Boyer, Jr.: Muscle Shoals Legacy…

"Blues is a feeling, happy or sad, that is put into the form of music. Whether it is humming a Negro spiritual, scatting down a swing or be-bop tune, or skanking an island song of peace, love or revolution."

J.J. Thames: Soul Emotions…

"The Blues is a music that allows you to be yourself and to me being a bluesman is one of the highest callings on God's earth."

Eddie Cotton, Jr.: Here I Come 

Eddie Cotton, Jr. is an electric…