"The music scenes in “On The Road” are some of the best scenes in the book.  This is jazz itself, captured in prose."

Levi Asher: Literary Kicks

Levi Asher, born Marc…

"I hear people try to copy it today but it’s hard. The Chess played the way they lived. Times have changed. Music today reflects that."

Dave Fields: Blues Detonation in Big Apple

Dave Fields has…

"The legacy of the Beats is their words!  Their honest, beautiful words set down on paper, giving comfort and hope to many."

Stephanie Nikolopoulos: Burning Furiously Beautiful

Stephanie Nikolopoulos is…

2013 KBA Award winners anounced! 

The Blues Foundation will honor 15 individuals and organizations with its 2013 Keeping the Blues Alive (KBA) Awards during a recognition luncheon Friday, February 1, 2013, in Memphis, Tennessee. Each year, The Blues Foundation presents the KBA Awards to individuals and organizations that have made…

"Louisiana roots music is special; it has a feel that doesn’t exist anywhere else. Louisiana has so many true legends in music." 

Peter Novelli: Spicy NOLA Gumbo…

"Open up and realize Blues is universal and not boring, sad, and rough around the edge whiskey voice music."

James "Buddy" Rogers: Me and my guitar 

Most blues musicians can proudly recall…

"A beat motto and what I've learned from the Beats would be: When the going gets weird, procrastinate."

Paavo Hall: The Beat Odyssey

Yale playwright Paavo Hall was born in Bamberg,…

"Blues helps us deal with the ups and downs of life...well, ain't that kind of like what a religion does?"

Wildcat O' Halloran: NY Bluezism

Hottest guitar-driven high-energy blues band ever to come out…

"Life - I believe everyone has experiences that could be put to music."

Aaron Burton: Old recipe of blues

Aaron Burton is a young Texan guitarist, mandolinist, and…

"Blues, Gospel, Folk will always be here. Not enough off the old Blues people left take care of them. Lotta good folks doing that." 

Buddy Flett: Southern Blues Cat…

"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,…