"When poetry and music come into being the spirit is free, released, out of it's daily prison."

David Budbill:

Rhythmic…

"Without a doubt. But there is a lot of stuff which calls itself blues which really isn’t. There is a difference between playing blues and playing THE blues. One of them has feeling!

Matt Wossey: On The Blues Waggon…

"I miss the spirit of camaraderie that was present when the older musicians were still alive. They would play the dozens, insulting one another - all in fun  - and play music and tell stories." 

Rhonda Rucker: Νature values  of Blues …

"Bukowski’s writing emerged from experiences similar to those of the blues musicians: work, hunger, intoxication, sex, exhaustion, sadness, loss, despair, resignation, and sometimes, for a while, the illusion of success."

Gerald Locklin:  The affirmation of the male…

"The blues is always with us because it deals with real emotions and feelings with human beings."

Mike Mettalia and Midnight Shift: Blues n' Roll Shift

Midnight Shift is a four piece band that…

My “dream” for the world is one of PEACE. I’ve devoted my life to that cause. It IS worth saving. My “nightmare” is that corporate greed will succeed in destroying it!

James "Sparky" Rucker: Once upon…

Jerry Miller: I'm a Blues Guy

Jerry Miller is a guitarist and vocalist who was a member of the 1960s San Francisco band Moby Grape. Before joining the group, Miller and bandmate Don Stevenson were members of The Frantics, a Pacific Northwest bar band. He is 68 on Rolling Stone's…

"Like Botticelli, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci and many others, Etta and Koko, Freddy King, Robert Johnson and many others are a cultural heritage we need to preserve and keep alive!"

Linda Valori: God Bless the Blues…

"I hope that my photographs convey a sense of the person in a way that can add to the viewer’s enjoyment of the artist’s work. I never want my vision to overwhelm the subject."

Michael Romanos: Black and White Fantasia…

"All meaningful music comes from black blues, gospel and soul musicians celebrating fierce independence, defiance and irreverence for allthings status quo."

Ted Nugent: Motor City Madman Hit the Road!…

R.I.P Bob Brozman

(March 8, 1954 - April 24, 2013)

Bob Brozman, the steel-guitar innovator and ethnomusicologist who got his start playing on the streets of Santa Cruz, has died. Details have not yet been confirmed,…

"Blues is just another expression of music from the heart. And if you can play the Blues, you can jam with any player who plays the Blues too."

Les Dudek: The sound that could raise the old Dixie…

"I’ve learned to approach situations as a learning experience and have made the attempt to be more conscious so that no matter what I come away with something."

Brian Stoltz: Karma of New Orleans' wisdom

Brian…

R.I.P Richie Havens

Jan 21, 1941 - April 22, 2013

Folk-rock singer and guitarist Richie Havens died today at age 72, according to a statement on the artist’s booking agency website. The Roots Agency posted an “in…

"People still have dramatic life experiences, and there are still artists who can express these experiences through music."

Steve Freund: The Flame of Blues Heat…

"What I love about this music is sincerity, austerity... Rhythm and vibrations goes directly to the heart, to the body and to the soul."

Erick Diard: Le Mousquetaire du Blues…

“Less is more” was the best advice given to me. Blues is a feeling, not a competition. I don’t want to hear every chop you know in 10 seconds.

Wally Greaney: Sweet Blues Daddy

Sweet Daddy Cool…

"Corso loved jazz music. He grew up in a milieu where a parallel search for individual freedom was going on in the jazz world."

Kirby Olson: The Beat of Silence

Kirby Olson studied poetry at Naropa Institute…

"The blues is very close to Beat writing because it does come from the depths of human feelings and experience and all of the things poor people have gone through." 

Gerald Nicosia: …

"Albert King and B.B. King as well as all of those old players lived the blues and could express that experience in their music."

George "Guitar" Bostick: Keeping the Blues torch

George Bostick grew up in NYC…