"Blues is all about what it is to be human. The songs have always been about things that affect us in our everyday lives. Times change but people don’t. We still have the same worries, weaknesses and problems."

Greg Bowles: Authentic, Genuine &…

"Naturally (as rock culture has to be) satire is a subversized kind of thing. Their coexistence is obvious."

Zoolixo Ligo: Rockin with the Reality

The rock version of black humor. ZOOLIXO LIGO…

"I don’t have much faith in music today. There doesn’t seem to be anything fresh and unique. People seem merely be rehashing older music."

Pat Liston: The Southern Pride

Pat Liston first…

"Rock and roll taught me to just be myself, which also happens to be the advice given to me by my Grandfather many years ago. Be yourself and follow your heart."

Michael Buffalo Smith: The Ambassador of Southern Rock…

"I miss the strip down rawness of the older guitar guys who played with so much feel, and developed their own style, I want to do that."

Michael Terry Spina: Hip Shaking Blues

St. Louis based blues/rock…

"The blues made me learn that I don´t need anyone or anything in the world to feel good about myself."

Molina González: Alhambra's Blues

Molina González aka Francisco Molina…

"Afro music is too vague a term. For there is as many styles as there is stars in the sky."

Ras Smaila: The Soul of Mama Africa

A cross over between Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Fela Anikulapo Kuti all…

"I’m still broke. No money, No mom, No lover. That’s what the Blues 'is'; its life and love and loss; it’s the sound of music that resonates from a hungry soul."

Aristotle Georgio: Music is psalms, it’s sacred…

"The Blues is the quintessence of everything good. It could travel for the whole galaxy."

Carlos Café: Ο Carioca de Blues

Carlos Café is a Brazilian Blues Rock guitarist, composer, arranger…

"The blues expresses ubiquitous and perpetual unfortunate human condition. There is great blues music being made today."

Walter Parks: A Rare Lotus in Swamp

Veteran blues and jazz guitarist…

"I learned that I could express myself more effectively through singing blues...the passion and intensity allows me to forget about people or an 'audience' and rare back and let the music Gods speak through me."

Shelia Grady Carlisle:…

"If there's one thing I miss (in actuality two), it's the honesty and simplicity of music from back in the day. Fear of the annihilation of the true source of sound and the essence of music."

John Patelis: The Blues is Alright…

"Blues helps me live with myself – with my strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures, marriages and divorces. It has been a constant that has given me strength to keep on going and live life with gusto."

Bobby “Hurricane” Spencer: The…

"Soul, to me, is the connection between all forms of music. The Blues is a feeling that comes from the soul and is expressed in a certain way."

Andrew Campanelli: The Revivalist

Revivalists drummer…

"It (Rock n' Roll) is no longer a culture. It is a business. There is real rock out there but mainstream audiences don’t get to hear it."

Leigh Stephens: The Melody of Falcons…

"The Blues from the past is still with us and that's a good thing, the future of music is going to be fine, people will always need and want real music even if it's not the most popular thing on the radio & TV."

Neal Black: The Healer of Lone Star…

"The blues continues to generate a following because after a while no matter how lucky a person is in life or how privileged their existence; they will experience hurt and pain and seek a remedy to fix it."

Queenie McCarter: Her Majesty of Blues…