"Take your kids to art festivals, galleries, museums, poetry readings, concerts, and hikes through the woods. The digital world is great, but real life still has some pretty good things happening."

Ken Pease: Artistic Tropical Storm…

"It’s (Blues) the real art of life.  It’s a way for me to heal the soul, through music."

Joe Pitts: The Axe Of Amalgamation

Hailed as one of the most soulful blues rock guitarists today, Joe…

"Through the blues I learned to express what was really deep inside my soul. I learned to let all the anger and frustration that I had in my youth aside, and focus on the good things that life have put in my way all this years."

Rodrigo Campagnolo: Electric Boom…

"When you got the Blues there isn't any boundaries regardless of, ethnicity, age, pain, joy love, happiness, caring, giving, family, money, and lost."

Jureesa McBride: The Duchess of Soul…

"The whole music scene has changed, where once it used to feel very family oriented when you went to shows, you had a lot of respect for each other and that seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur."

Vernon Webb: Lights, Lenses & Angels…

"I continue to learn about interesting human situations in well-written blues songs. When the lyrics are clever or intelligently written and a story unfolds, they can open your eyes to something you may not have known before."

Howlin’ Waters: Texas Boogie…

"I think is due to the fact that the more you listen to blues, the more it catches you and also the fact that the more you go deep in its history it becomes more and more interesting."

Ricardo Muñoz: Respetando Las Raíces…

"Roots Blues are like this since they deal with the human condition and use specifics as sort of props to get the listener emotionally connected."

Michael Weiskopf: Knocking On Americana's Door…

"Best advice was to listen without prejudice."

Eilon Paz: Dust, Grooves & Vinyl

Born in Israel, now residing in Brooklyn, NY, photographer Eilon Paz has traveled the world, from Australia to Cuba and…

"From the Blues I learn that life has to be simple, just like the Blues simple and trustful."

Netto Rockfeller: Blues Globalizado

Originally from Sao Paulo Brazil, Netto Rockfeller starts his career as a guitarist and singer in 1997,…

"My hopes are that a lot of the profanity and disrespect is taken out of the music. My fear is that the universal language of music never gets lost."

Sharon Martin: The Jewel of NOLA

New…

"I learn humility, deep feeling, sincere friendship and generosity of blues people. Blues means to me music from soul, love explain and sharing instant with other musicians."

René Perrier: Tricolore Blues Chat…

"I'm afraid people call the blues only the musical aspect, forgetting all the other aspects of the culture of blues, bringing an increase in a the spectacularization or even a folklorization (in a pejorative sense) of the blues."

Filipe Gaeta: The Blues Goes…

"Blues and Soul will always have a good following because that music has always come from the heart. Both genres are inspired from pain and hardship which is something that everyone can relate to."

Matthew Szlachetka: All About The Song…

"I worry about the future, the Children just are listening poor music all the time here without any culture and any contents are the same songs that are educating our future. It´s really sad."

David Tanganelli: When The Man Loves The Blues…

"The Blues has given me a way to not only express my creativity, but also an outlet in which I can put all of my emotion to serve the music to its fullest."

Bad Brad: Walkin' With The Blues…

"The Blues come in all shapes and sizes, you know, you can have the blues when your woman leaves you and you can have them blues when your women won't leave you alone."

King B. King: All Music Is Blues Music!…

"I think because there is a strong connection with emotional things and there is a lot of people that just love that beat and they don’t have idea why, probably is because it’s related with the heart beat in a natural way."

Gonzalo Araya: Heart…

"I really believe that it’s healthier for any musical form to keep going forward, the past is the past and we live right now in the present."

Otavio Rocha: Carioca Grooves The Blues…

"The Blues is simple; true and deals with real emotions like love, pain, loosing your house; losing your job things that people have to face everyday."

Pascal Delmas: Monsieur Blues Explosion…