NICK DOUNOUSSIS & THE BACKBONE

“Nick and the Backbone” is the band created by Nick Dounoussis, well known to blues audiences from his 25-years radical involvement  in the Greek Blues scenery.He is considered to be the best Blues guitar player…

CORKY SIEGEL

Elegant Blues

Mark Paul "Corky" Siegel has earned an international reputation as one of the world's great blues…

NIKOS TSIAMTSIKAS & THE BLUES REPORT

Nikolas is an electric blues singer, guitarist, songwriter and... reporter. 

"Sometime I wish that blues lineage had more space and people could feel the difference."

Jean Pierre Duarte: Parisienne walkways…

DAVE HOLE

The Guitar Man is Here to Stay

Dave Hole born in England, is an slide guitarist well known for his style of playing rock n' roll and blues. Hole…

DANA GILLESPIE

Universal Blues Singer

"I believe the blues should be sung by an older person because it's about emotions and experience. I couldn't do justice to it when I was younger because my voice didn't have the edge it needed to convey…

Another Man Done Gone...

A key figure in the history of the blues passed away on October 18, 2011. Bob Brunning, founder bassist with Fleetwood Mac and stalwart of Savoy Brown and his own DeLuxe Blues Band, died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 68.…

"We're all under the same sky, fighting hard...brothers."

Blues Wire: Greek Blues Brothers

According to everybody who has ever…

Barry Feinstein, whose iconic photographs of 1960s rockers included the cover of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'" died Thursday after a long illness, his wife said. He was 80.



Feinstein snapped more than 500 album covers in his career, including Janis Joplin for "Pearl" a day before she died and George Harrison flanked by garden gnomes for his post-Beatles solo outing "All Things Must Pass".…

Blues Like a Good Old Wine

Lonesome Shack is a Blues and Boogie band from Seattle. Ben Todd plays guitar, sings and writes songs & Kristian Garrard plays miniature drumset. Ben has performed his style of blues for the past 8 years,…

Στο κέντρο του Περιστερίου, στην Αθήνα, σ' έναν ειδικά διαμορφωμένο χώρο, δημιουργήθηκε το STAGE 25, θέλοντας να παρουσιάζει συγκροτήματα από την εγχώρια σκηνή του…

Sitting in "The Garden” of Blues

Dimitris Epikouris is the author of the books “Blame It All on The Blues” & “Fifteen Raindrops In An Ocean of Blues Tales” and for more than two decades, has been quietly accumulating a collection of rare guitars.…

Richard Gere sold more than 100 guitars and amplifiers at Christie's on Tuesday, Oct. 6 in New York, realizing a total of $936,438, the auction house said. Only four of the 106 instruments on offer failed to sell.

Gere, an active philanthropist for Tibet and HIV-AIDS education, revealed he sold the collection, comprised of 110 guitars and amps made by manufactures such as CF Martin, Gibson, Fender, Marshall, Vox and Gretsch, as a part of his…

George Buford was born in Hernando, Mississippi, on November 10, 1929. When he moved to Memphis, he was inspired at age twelve to start playing the harmonica by performers such as B. B. King and Little Walter   As his harp playing progressed,  he set his sights on Chicago and moved there in 1954.  Soon  he started a group called The Savage Boys with Sam Burden and Dave Members.  The band attracted much attention from Muddy Waters, also a Mississippi native blues…

"ALL BLACKS" SINGS THE BLUES 

The history of Blues in New Zealand dates from the 1960s. The earliest blues influences on New Zealand musicians were indirect — not from the US but from white British blues musicians: first the R&B styles of The Animals and The Rolling Stones, and later the blues-tinged…

Marv Tarplin, the Motown guitarist and songwriter who shaped the sound of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and was a co-writer of "The Tracks of My Tears" and other hits, died on Friday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 70.

The cause of death has not been determined, a spokeswoman for the Miracles, Jeanne Sorensen, said.

Mr. Tarplin had a knack for coming up with catchy riffs and melodies. He was fooling around with a calypso song he had heard Harry Belafonte…

Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer wins 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature after late betting rush for Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan was first officially nominated for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, and again for the 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 & 2011 ones.…

"I have learned that I must keep a connection with the Earth and all living things, that my energy comes from the ground (earth) and this pulls the energy from the universe to me and opens up channels of creativity."

Joseph De…