"Black music is what brought us jazz, blues and rock. Being honest, truthful and expressive, that music naturally attracts people who aspire to be the same. For a time, it was the voice of change which once seemed imminent. Now it is infected with corporate greed, but the roots are still unspoiled. It just takes a working brain to see through the hype and someday maybe we won’t be fooled."…

"The blues is the soundtrack of American history, even though the style of music has found its way to so many musicians in the rest of the world."

Eight O’Five Jive: Back to Nostalgic Era…

"My wish is of course that a new generation of music lovers will learn to appreciate blues and attend live shows, but also that the music remain soulful and genuine."

Gina Sicilia: Heart & Soul…

"To me the blues means being able to talk about life’s struggles in song. It is tempered sometimes with lively lyrics and rhythm. Blues encompasses everything into one song: spirit, life, work, darkness, sadness, joy, and hope. And it always comes from the heart."

Sharon…

"Music and art is freedom of the mind."

Mary Fleener: AMERICAN…

"The audience dynamic is predominantly white and many white artists have picked up the mantel and are doing great things with these blues."

Donald Ray Johnson: Bluesin' Around

Donald Ray Johnson (also…

"Music and visual art definitely reflect what is happening with the times."

Carol Boss: St. Louis Art n' Blues

Carol Boss is a St. Louis based artist who paints mostly in acrylic. Paintings vary from musician portraits, to…

"I think Rory's music is still current today because its good, Rory was a one off, A great guitarist (If not one of the best) A great song writer and performer. So it doesn’t surprise me that people still want to hear his music!"

Band Of Friends: A Celebration of the Music of…

"Blues can never be a fad, as it speaks to basic human conditions and emotions that never change."

The Smoke Wagon Blues Band

Featuring funky blues harmonica, whisky stained vocals; slick guitar work and a solid rhythm section…

"I think Rock and Blues are both the best ways of expressing yourself musically, they both have so much emotion behind them."

Steve Costello: Grunge Rock n' Blues

Hard-hitting original rock songs driven…

"Enlightenment, if it comes at all, comes after hundreds, thousands of incarnations. I wait for instructions from The Universe. When I feel it speaks, I try to listen. When it doesn't, I wait."

Leo Racicot: B(Eat) A Soutra…

"I think music has the power to change people’s thinking, for better or for worse, and that power is crucial in times of political incorrectness. I think our generation lacks the drive to write about political, racial, and social issues because people are scared to do so."

Amanda Hardy: Rock in…

"Music is a force that can bring people together. Blues music can uniquely cross racial barriers, socio-cultural boundaries, and other hindrances that work to keep people separate because quite simply, anybody can have the blues."

Zayne Harshaw: Blue(s) Spectrum…

"Everyone seems to connect to Blues folk and Roots so with this music we can share positive words that connect to all walks of life. Anger in music just creates more anger so people the powerful songs are the ones that say we are all the same."

Juzzie Smith: Down Under…

"ALL forms of American modern music has its origin in Black Gospel music. From it came Blues, and then Jazz, then Rhythm & Blues, then Rock n' Roll."

Jeff Chaz: Keep The Blues Attitude 

Jeff…

"The Blues is bound to the slavery, the segregation, these musicians evolved in inhuman living conditions, the White had power of life and death over this Afro-American population, How many lynchings for a badly put look or a word of fault."

Jacques "Black…

"My hope is that each pioneering vanguard of artists and writers will have the wisdom and selfless good sense to recognize the truest horizons before them."

George Wallace: Playful As A Whip…

"The War of the Worlds. Wipe out human race and then restart the whole thing."

Butcher Billy: A(RT)malgamation

Brazilian designer, cartoonist, and illustrator “Butcher Billy” is an artist with a fresh approach, who loves to…

"Comix like Zap for instance had a silliness and almost innocence about it in its humor but also an adult and disconnected undertone."

Alex Gamsu Jenkins: Keep on Surrealism

Alex Gamsu Jenkins…

"Life. The ups, the downs, the successes, the failures, love, loss… you name it. It’s all about the human condition. If you’ve experienced sadness, heartache, or joy, you can write a song about it."

Dave Orban: The Mojo (Philly) Gypsies…