"I am a literary anthropologist who loves people and wants to know their souls and hearts and tell their tales."

Joan Jobe Smith: Tales of West Coast Pearl

Joan Jobe Smith, founding editor…

"My wish for the BLUES is that the blues "purists" would allow cynicism to leave their hearts."

Blue Mother Tupelo: Southerners Knights

Ricky & Micol Davis are a soulful husband-and-wife…

"If you want to have fun, just do it. If you want to earn money, be really good and uncompromising - or forget it."

Hans R. W. Abry: Blues Jam Images

Hans R. W. Abry is a German…

R.I.P Ann Rabson - a friend and great blues singer, songwriter, and piano & guitar player. You'll be missed.

Blues pianist/singer/songwriter/guitarist Ann…

"Blues is the Rosetta Stone of music - a key to understanding."

Jim Colegrove: Poetic Notes & Cool Groove

Jim Colegrove has had a long and distinguished career in American music. He was born in Springfield, Ohio and began…

"If you feel the emotion and the rhythm of the songs, so will the audience.  Blues music gets to the root of feeling and emotion in our lives."

Robert "Top" Thomas: Swamp Blues Sounds…

"My philosophy is…if you want it, go for it. If you fall, get up, if you work hard and you will get it…picture it, if you can see it, you can be it."

Genya Ravan: Priestess of Rock n' Roll …

"Blues Rock is the combination of the soulfulness and heart of the blues with the freedom of rock."

Phoenix Spell: Renewal sounds of past

Phoenix Spell were formed in the fall of 2011,…

"Doesn’t matter your race, color, or creed, blues is universal you don't even have to understand the language to feel its power. As long as people are on this earth, they will sing the blues."

Toney: Live Free, Tell the Truth & Sing the…

"I think there are many great blues musicians and very few Bluesmen today."

The Elgins: The universal language of Blues

The Elgins take a no-nonsense approach to the traditional Blues styles of the late…

"Passionate, Compassionate, never boring, brave and humble – these are some of the reasons that Jack Kerouac is a great man-he is alive through his writing, an eternal beat avatar to the truths contained in Every-man’s life!"

Cliff Anderson: Jack Kerouac, Beat…

"Just life itself. Live long enough and you begin to find blues in almost anything."

Jarmo Puhakka: Inner Artic Blues

Slim Butler is known to his friends as Jarmo…

"The blues is an immediate avenue to one's emotional state, with the fewest notes possible. Sort of like being naked."

Salted Bros: SalTed Blues Apple

Salted Bros is an…

"Believe in yourself and pursue your goals with passion and determination."

A Tribute to Jeff Healey :

Can you see the light of love shinin' from my…

"I put up Beats in Kansas at KU because of the odd fact that 80 percent of living beats were from Kansas."

George Laughead: The Duke of Kansas

George Laughead grew up in Dodge…

"Blues directly relates to an emotional state or a state of mind, or both."

Gregg Giarelis: A Bluesman is born

Gregg Giarelis is a singer, songwriter and guitar player born in Athens,…

"No smoke and mirrors or hiding the truth behind any hidden meanings just put it out there pure and simple and everyone can relate to what you are saying."

Gar Francis: One Music, One Song, One World

Gar Francis (Gary T…

“They all have their roots in Africa.  Just cultural that’s all. Music is Music.” 

BRUNI Sablan: Mama Africa

Bruni Sablan was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil circa the…

"My philosophy is always to keep it fresh keep it real."

Janita (Jenny) Haan: The Perfume of Rock

Janita Haan was born under the Taurus sign in Edgware, England. She is one from the most power…