It is hard to overstate the impact of the ‘60s British blues guitar scene, when a new generation of guitar heroes mined the original source of blues playing and put their own spin on it. In doing so, ...

Tracy Nelson might offer a few hints. Nelson, 57, endured a lot of comparisons when -- a year after Joplin -- she first emerged on the San Francisco rock scene with Mother Earth, a Fillmore-era band ...

Once a month, the Foundation Room at the House of Blues Anaheim time-travels back to the Summer of Love. A disc jockey warms up the crowd spinning Beatles, Jefferson Airplane and Jimmy Hendrix vinyl ...

Authentic blues music is about place, whether it’s a hotbed like Texas or Chicago or Luther Dickenson’s stomping grounds of Mississippi Hill Country. For the past 20 years, Dickenson has been honoring ...

Robert Hilburn’s article on the new wave of rock bands was excellent and inspiring (“Remember Rock?,” June 30). I took note of Jack White’s comments about his blues influences. While rock will always ...

Two titans of ’60s blues-rock, Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, shared some of the same backgrounds, influences and experiences. The pair were even occasional lovers and drug buddies, culminating in ...

Starting in 2010, with his album "Plays Blues, Ballads and Favorites," Texas singer-guitarist Jimmie Vaughan and his band, Tilt-A-Whirl, are recording their renditions of the 1950s and ’60s blues, R&B ...

“Some see a blues musician like a follow-the-dots painter. Like any fool can do it. But simplicity is deceptive. And feeling is something that’s not easy to evaluate.” -- B.B. King To Wilmington ...

You know you’ve written an evocative song when people try to tie it into some real-life occurrence. Folks have certainly done that with “Ride Captain Ride”, the massive 1970 hit single by Blues Image.