Earlier this year, two landmark albums by a pair of the blues' most quietly influential voices were re-released. Mississippi John Hurt's "Today!" (1966) and Lonnie Johnson's "Blues & Ballads" (1960) ...

Lonnie Johnson’s Blues & Ballads gets an audiophile-grade vinyl reissue via Bluesville and Craft. Intimate, detailed blues for hot summer nights. As summer kicks into high gear and the heat starts ...

This isn’t a book for the fainthearted. It’s certainly not for the puritanical. This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references so scabrous they would make a pirate ...

Featuring ballads, modern and swing era blues songs along with fiery bebop songs. The performance features various student soloists and each song will have an element of musical surprise within the ...

Bandits, Ballads and Blues is almost certainly the final album by James Talley, the Nashville singer-songwriter who cemented his place in history as one of the great musical storytellers with a ...

The Best Is Yet To Come; Sophisticated Lady; Close Your Eyes; When The World Was Young; Since I Fell For You; The Nearness Of You; My One And Only You; A Sleepin' Bee; Glad To Be Unhappy; If He Walked ...

Arbors Records has done a yeoman’s job of preserving the classic jazz sounds of the ‘30s through ‘50s by supporting and recording the best of contemporary musicians playing in those styles. With this ...

Dead & Company: blues, ballads, and lots of drums for ‘One More Saturday Night’ at Fenway As long as the band’s legacy continues to evolve in some way, shape, or form, there’s no sign that it will be ...

Black and Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong takes a look at the life and career of the legendary jazz musician, Louis Armstrong.