"I really believe that it’s healthier for any musical form to keep going forward, the past is the past and we live right now in the present."

Otavio Rocha: Carioca Grooves The Blues…

"The Blues is simple; true and deals with real emotions like love, pain, loosing your house; losing your job things that people have to face everyday."

Pascal Delmas: Monsieur Blues Explosion…

"Jazz and Blues music speaks to the soul. These genres have a honesty in approach that honors real life, real people, real emotion."

Julie Black: Follow The Muse & Angel

Based in Florida,…

"Music and art can confront and free us from the mind and spirit prison because they  get us out of the cerebral chatter of the frontal lobes and allow our feelings to change instantaneously."

Dennis Formento: Free Mind & Spirit …

"The Blues is not just a music style but a way of living."

Jefferson Gançalves: Under The Baobab 

Jefferson Gançalves, native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began his musical career in the 1990's…

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014)

Rest in Paradise…

"Southern rock was the inevitable spawn of blues. If blues was born out of the hardships of the sharecropper, then southern rock was born out of the poor white folk who lived right beside them."

The Raisin Cain' Band: Keep on Rockin'…

"I can’t imagine living without blues (and Jazz…real jazz is blues based too) in my head, and listening to recorded or live music. And for me it was a soundtrack to my political activities."

Rick Congress: Give Blues & Jazz A Chance…

"I might also add that the Blues is about improvising, and it is that basic fact that it allows for solutions to manifest, even if it is on a subliminal level."

Steven Von Linne: The Blues Ulysses…

"You have to remember that the blues was created as a personal musical expression by a basically non-literate culture. It is the sound of the human heart, the song of the spirit. I think that today we need the blues more than ever."

Gary Erwin: Lowcountry…

"I believe the Blues relates to Poetry in a way that acknowledges structure: that is blues changes are inherent in 1-4-5 chord progressions and the lyric lines are in three structured phrases." 

Michael C Ford: Beatbop Words & Rhymes…

"I believe the blues message is: Simplicity."

Cristiano Crochemore: Freeman Blues

Cristiano Crochemore, is a Brazilian guitarist from Porto Alegre, lives in Rio De Janeiro since 1986. In…

"The Blues teaches us that everybody is somebody. The blues is the soundtrack of reality. Whatever you have lived through has been talked about in a blues song."

Pat Moss: The Score Music Of Lifes…

"The blues is the roots of all modern pop music and always be, you always end up with the blues no matter what…"

Leo Javali: Belo Horizonte De Blues

Leo Javali born Leonardo Augusto…

"Less is more. Nothing is everything. It’s a great excuse."

Egypt: Pharaohs With Blue(s) Jeans

Egypt is a UK blues rock three piece band formed in 1987. Egypt is best known for its close…

"The legacy of rock music is evident just about everywhere you look."

Keith Green: Portaits of Imageville

Native of Houston, Texas photographer Keith Green is known for his portraits of…

"Learn something new everyday and most importantly, listen!!!"

Evan Palmerston: The Musicality Of Blood

Evan Palmerston has been a working bassist for the past 4 decades. Born 1952, raised…

"American Roots music speaks to me. I can only imagine it must also speak to a lot of other people."

Zoe Boekbinder: Jailhouse Blues

Zoe Boekbinder was born on an early winter morning, in the upstairs…

"The youngers never heard the real blues men and ladies."

Bert Lek: The Flying Blues Dutchman

Dutch Bert Lek is well known as a photographer, reporter, promoter, radio producer and…

"Blues people are enlightened people who know how to have a good time! That's the best party - Who doesn't want to be part of that?"

Katie Bradley: Traveling With The Blues…