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No-one plays the blues like Buddy Guy – but that doesn't stop us trying. We look at four ways the blues icon approaches his ...
So far, blues music has proved resilient. ... As you'll hear in these five examples of "techno-blues," it's holding up quite nicely. Dragging Blues Into The 21st Century. Little Axe ...
"The Blues" kicked off the year with special screenings at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah (January 16-26), and at Radio City Music Hall February 7th with "Salute to the Blues," a benefit ...
For example, one element of Sinners that doesn't come across in its promotional materials is its focus on music. Through the characters of Sammie and Remmick, viewers get to see how music can ...
Jimmy Johnson was a contemporary of Buddy Guy – and the ultimate example of a Chicago blues virtuoso who ventured well outside the box Joel A. Siegel Mon, May 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC ...
When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window at the experience people are having at the time. Typically, blues artists write out of their own experience.
If you’re a fan of music, you’re a fan of this show. ‘Blue Heaven’ review: a divine celebration of blues music, icons who created it - Chicago Sun-Times Scratch that.
KLON, a Cal State Long Beach radio station now known KKJZ, continues to play blues to this day, for example, and the station even founded the Long Beach Blues Festival, which ran from 1980 to 2010.
This week, I take a look at blues in Oklahoma ahead of the Blues Society of Tulsa’s Blues Challenge, set for Saturday at Cain’s Ballroom. With that in mind, I put together a few songs that ...