"Homer changed, or re-arranged my life.  All the rest seems to be commentary.  Homer gives legs to the journey, pure and simple."

Neeli Cherkovski: The Ithaca of poetry

Neeli Cherkovski is…

"I think the blues has taught me that the feelings and emotions that I have are the same ones that all people have."

Charles Burton: Positive vibration Blues

Born in Los…

"Most music has become digital - real musicians have been replaced by high-tech electronic devices.  It takes the true feeling out of the music."

Melvin Taylor: Made the sweet taste of guitar

Melvin Taylor is one…

"There are many good instrumentalists today, but I miss singers that are really outstanding."

Thorbjørn Risager: Scandinavian Crooner…

R.I.P Pete Cosey

Legendary Chicago-based guitarist Pete Cosey, has died at the age of 68. Jazz blues guitarist Pete Cosey used electronic distortion and innovative methods of stringing and tuning his guitar to impress his signature sound on recordings by artists from bluesmen Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf to jazz…

"Stay true to being yourself. Don't change because someone thinks you should be doing something else. Stay true to yourself."

Rocky Athas: Lightning Real Blues…

"Good writing is usually about a good story that you can see in your mind as the words are sung. But great songwriting is often torture to get out."

Sonny Boy Terry: Houston Blues Blow…

Carrie Smith, a jazz and blues singer who achieved stage fame as one of the stars of the Broadway musical revue Black and Blue, died

Ms. Smith had been a presence in the jazz scene for three decades when in 1989 she was cast as one of the singers in the bluesy revue…

"Like the blues chord progression. It´s always getting back to the beginning and then starting again and moves round and round ! Something like meditation…"

Richie Arndt: Energizing blues guitar…

"Poetry is the most intimate path, in my opinion, toward confronting Ultimate Truth for Humans; Music comes close behind Poetry in this regard."

Ed Sanders: Alone... and Together…

"The blues is a platform of expression, it helps you tells your story…if it’s good, people will always listen and enjoy."

Ministry of Blues: The Red Hot Blues Band

Although Philipe, Vinoo and…

Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997)

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."…

"The Blues is something that you are born with. You either feel them or you don’t."

Nelsen Adelard: Blues Journeyman

Born into a show business family, Nelsen was already a professional musician at…

"I write poetry in part to confront the prisons inside and outside and to help people to liberate themselves and I perform my poems with musicians."

Jonah Raskin: Rock and Roll poetry generation

Jonah Raskin is an…

"Music is a language and just as in life it is important to be a good listener. Musical conversations are an amazing thing."

Chuck Leavell: Back to Wonderful World

Chuck Leavell has been pleasing the…

"...Blues definitely comes from the heart and  therefore I think the blues will always be there as long as we have hearts and feelings."

Blue Alley: Blues elixir of life…

"Blues is a feeling, we all have feeling all the time whether they are bad, happy etc."

Al "Hurricane" Spears: Feel the Blues…

"I consider the Blues an art form. An art form that allows a person to express what they feel. No different then painting, writing, sculpture, dance, or any other form of music."

Ron Hacker: Dirty Old Blues…

"The Blues is a way of expressing yourself, it’s a feeling that everyone can understand. It’s a way of life!"

Jacob Schulz: Blues under evolving

Jacob “Brother Jacob” Schulz is…

"In blues there is always a story to tell and in nowadays music, the story is missing."

Vivian Vance Kelly: The Blues Rose

At 5 years old, Vivian was called up…