"Blues like other music genres is a way to express your inner feelings BUT even more, you know…here we're talking about the power of simplicity."

The Blue Flames: Northern Blues sparks…

"Blues poetry, like literature, they speak of the human condition and evoke a meaningful response on many levels."

Tas Cru: Keeping The Blues Alive

It is not for…

"Appreciating Blues is maybe the best way I know how to connect with other cultures/ethnic groups in America."

Bruce Flett: Southern Bluebird

Bruce is a veteran musician with the…

"Blues is so real and it does not depend on being commercial."

Jan King: The reality of music image

Jan Yates King is a partner at Two Sisters Photography and specializes in music photography…

"What I found attractive in the Blues, in general, was the realness. No fluff, no safety nets, pure passion."

Chris Kruse: Never walk alone with the Blues

Chris Kruse is a visual folk…

"The cliché is true: Blues is a feeling."

Altered Five: Rockin’ rhythm ’n’ blues

From day one, Altered Five dared to be different. The quintet formed in…

"On listening to poets like Charley Plymell and Ray Bremser, I’ve heard jazz-like meter, syncopation, swing, along with the soul of blues."

Carl Waldman: Cherry Valley Blues…

"My wish for the Blues is for it to stay underground, not to become mainstream. This way it won’t lose its essence."

Blas Picón: Blues to the bone

Blas Picón was born in Barcelona 1969, has been in the music…

"We can all identify with the realities in the Blues on some fundamental level. In spite of the often painful lyricism, what a joyful soulshakin' noise."

Lennie Jones: Art with heart and soul…

"The feelings and stories of the past are something that I would have loved to experience."

Homemade Jamz Blues Band: The New Bluebloods

Homemade Jamz Blues Band got its start in Baumholder,…

"Music and poetry exist in numerous dimensions exclusive of each another, yet one is never without the other."

Jim Cohn: “Diamond Fragments, Golden Sparks”

Jim Cohn has lead a life chronicling his times…

"Pick your passion. Practice your fundamentals. Copy your favorite masters. Find your soulful center and develop your own style."

Bruce Andrews: Blues with riffs and colors

Bruce has been playing…

"Blues and Rock and Roll are the Peanut Butter that holds our musical sandwich together..."

The Bloody Jug Band:…

"If you read, for instance, On the Road, you discover that it has a sound track - there's different jazz playing almost all of the time."

Dennis McNally: On the Road with the…

R.I.P Terry Callier

A man of many moods, a musician of varied colors, Chicago-born singer-songwriter Terry Callier has died.

The 67-year-old songwriter, who experienced belated success in his career after working with acts including Massive Attack and Beth Orton, died on Sunday…

"Soul is funk is timeless and speaks to the human heart and soul! It’s a special sound and felling that will resonate forever."

Kelly Finnigan: Soul to Soul

Psychedelic Soul, sometimes called…

No dreams, no nightmares. My motto is “Life is too short for tight shoes”

Jeffery Beach: Enlighten Your Life

Jeffery Beach is a photographer and Blues, Rock and Jazz fan. Also,…

"I hope blues music stays in the hearts and minds of folks who love music for a long time. Music is a uniting and healing force and the blues speaks to everybody."

2BLU and The Lucky Stiffs

The band have…

"The Yanks still own the music because it originated there, but Canadians, like me, are bringing an authentically new sound with different stories that are informed and inspired by the Blues."

Son Roberts: Maple NuBlues Stories…

"The heart and soul conveys the strongest connections to the human spirit and is timeless. That is why music or art made with those true components stay."

Andrea Mistretta: Litanie Des…