"Blues is the foundation of contemporary music, so simple and yet so powerful in emotions it simply delivers the performer and the listener from the most basic human emotion: pain, but it can be extremely joyful too."

Yiannis Monos: Burnin' Keys…

"My hopes are that more kids appreciate this music of Blues and Jazz and my fears are that they don’t!"

Noel Catura: American Sax & Soul

Musician extraordinaire on the tenor, alto and…

"The joys and heartaches of life, the love and the disappointments -- all the experiences of being alive on this blue planet are the elements that are expressed through blues music."

D.L. Duncan: The Iridescence of Blues…

"I think blues music would have a much bigger audience if this music would get more air time in radio and television. Younger people just don’t find this music."

Helge Tallqvist: Fin(n)ish Blues…

"Blues is an outlet for that pain, a cleansing of the soul. Get it out and move on"

The Bihlman Bros: Brothers On The Road

The Bihlman Bros. are Emmy Award winning songwriters/composers and…

"Compassion and Loving Kindness are the most important things in the world and the more people incline to them, the less hatred and violence and selfishness there will be, and the world would be a better place, for our children and their children."

Hughie…

"The Pranksters legacy was that millions of young people at the time adopted their carefree lifestyle and experimentation with altered conscience and also their music..."

Eric Albronda: San Francisco Nights…

"About the past I miss the simple are the things, simple but impossible do best, today we play more technical but is not the same beauty...The Blues himself adapted through the years...who knows the way he take  I don’t know Blues is bigger than us."

Ñaco Goñi: Iberian…

"The blues has taught me humility with the audience of listeners. The blues has taught me that when you're up or down, having a good day or bad, it’s always possible to play and create music and express or share your emotions in a positive healing way."

SOBO: The Blues DNA of…

"I hope we can realize that we’re all people and there’s just not that much difference in the grand scheme of things. My fear is that we’re too stupid and greedy as a species to do so!!!"

Jim Aaron: Sounds of North Carolina …

"I enjoy singing the blues because it has a great feel to it"

Dorothy Moore: Blues Heart, Southern Soul

Multi-Grammy award nominee, Dorothy Moore played New York’s Madison Square Garden and…

"The honesty, the musical world should be more honest and original."

Luis Lobos Negros: Rock n' Roll Boom

Luis Lobos Negros restless guy, fond of cavernous music of the 50s,…

"The Blues has taught me about life and people. Most of all, it’s taught me that this genre of music can transcend gender, race, and/ or religion. It means everything to me."

Billy the Kid & The Regulators: The Journey of Blues…

"Definitely, in the end blues is a kind of folk music. Blues has always been related to a political, social and economic context. So is Mexican traditional or folk music, like “corridos”."

Bourbon Blues Ensemble: Hecho en México…

"I firmly believe music heals and connects people in all the right ways. So when racial and social-cultural things come along and immediately separates folks and lines get drawn, I think music is a powerful tool to get past those things and brings everybody back together."

Mitch Mann: Sweet…

"You can’t understand the blues without paying a big attention to sociology, race etc...but also in Flamenco, Latin music ETC...popular music is LIFE, and it tells what  is and been going on with the people."

Marcos Coll: Saludos del Mundo Los Blues…

"The blues teaches me that even pain can be a celebration. Through the Blues we understand Hope and Redemption. The Blues is our Story about Life."

Mississippi Fever: 300 Miles to Memphis…

"I believe my music come to me from a higher power. Without a soul you couldn't create it, without a heart you wouldn't feel it, Without a brain you wouldn't be able to appreciate it".

Jay Gordon: Kickin' Blues Ass

Electric…

"Money doesn’t make the world go round!!!"

Johnny Prapas: The Axes Of Zeus

Johnny Prapas (aka Yiannis Yiantsios) and his entirely handmade electric guitars Olympus Custom Guitars are located in Leptokarya…

"Today, most music is what is referred to as 'cookie cutter'. One after the other, all the same...same shit, different day! Also, taste and subtlety has been thrown out like the baby with the bath water."

Mike Turk: New England's Tin…