"I think that it is because this music (Blues / Jazz) is generally “real, no frill”, and honest, it has no age or demographic barriers."

Mungo Jerry: King of the Groove

Mungo Jerry is a British rock group whose greatest…

"It all began with the blues - a very simple, beautiful art form. Sometimes you need to go back to that well of ideas to find new ways to interpret this original style of music." 

Lookin' For Trouble: L.A. Troublemakers…

"Acid Pop Rock is a modern term. It came from a lack of a better term. Fusion is a closer description of the times…but that term didn’t exist either. Progressive was more a kin to what we were thinking."

George Bunnell: Republic of Strawberry Alarm Clock…

"The blues evolved from field chants and very basic music. There is a real primitive element at its core. That give it a universal quality. I think the blues will always be around."

Scott Ramminger: Breathing of New Orleans…

"Both blues and rembetiko are ideas and way of life coming out of real people’s experience! Experience coming out the 'hard way'. Blues and rembetiko are the direct approach of interpreting and expressing your feelings."

Rebetoven: Standing at the…

"As long as there are people who 'understand' what is necessary to play Blues and as long as there’s guitar players & guitars, there'll be real blues."

Tony "TS" McPhee: The Lionheart Blues…

"The Blues allows you to express all your feelings, sorrow, fears, and happiness."

The Crippled Frogs: C'est Le Blues

The fantasized blues of this improbable trio takes us to an imaginary…

"Don’t quit your day job. Study to be a nurse, doctor, mechanic, computer technician…anything…the music business is tough to break into and even more so now." 

Michelle Roche: It's a music music world…

"The best advice I ever got was to only focus on the music, love what you are doing, and the success, and the money will take care of themself."

Don Stevenson: Like old good wine…

"The blues is as real today as it was back then...it’s just evolved... like us, to adapt to a changing world. There are so many genres of blues out there today."

Pam Taylor: Dr. Feelgood Blues…

"The art world is independent from the larger world. Art is autonomous. It flows forward in unexpected ways. It should surprise its beholders."

Michael Andre: Years Skip By Like a Stone Across a Pond…

R.I.P Bobby "Blue" Bland

Blues legend Bobby “Blue” Bland passed away at his Memphis home June 23 from a prolonged illness, according to his son Rod Bland.

His hits such as "Further On Up the Road" and "Turn on Your…

"Basically jazz is an extension from the blues. In my opinion, you can’t play jazz until you dig deep into the blues. "

Johnny Altenburgh: Shake like the old times

Johnny & The MoTones started in…

"The blues world sometime it’s a little too busy and sometimes there is a little misunderstanding about what is the blues and what isn’t the blues, so it’s no easy for young artist to find a place in it." 

Fabrizio Poggi: Dum Spiro Ludere Blues…

"Music is a living art form and it’s constantly changing and growing. To me change in music is exciting and if someone wants to mix blues with polka music and can make it work, more power to them."

Garth Webber: Man on a music mission…

"Real blues as and why it was created don’t exist now, it’s evident but the magic paradox is that Blues still exist live and grow today."

Marc Dejoux: Blues drawings from the real state of mind and soul …

The best advice ever given to me was "never give up what you can't live without"!

Neil Merryweather: New Music to Life…

"If the music is good then it doesn’t really make any difference what kind it is."

Larry Delinger: Music Is A Zen Koan

Larry Delinger is one of the premier composers…

"Jazz is a musical language and as language the purpose of the expression of the human being."

Iván Sáez: Habla con Jazz

Iván Sáez Vigalondo was born in Burgos, Spain. He started…

"As Willie Dixon used to say: 'The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.' Nothing can grow on a plant if it has no roots ... that's why the Blues will always be with us!"

Veronica & The Red Wine Serenaders…