The Recording Academy announced yesterday, November 28, 2017 the recordings nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album. Best Traditional Blues Album Nominees Migration Blues by Eric…
Robben Ford was born on December 16, 1951 in Woodlake, California, U.S.A. Robben Ford’s earliest musical steps were in the blues playing with his brothers…
Born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi in 1911, Robert Johnson came to prominence in the 1930s, recording his 26-song catalog during two recording sessions in 1936 and…
Boubacar Traoré – Dounia Tabolo (Lusafrica, 2017) The master of Malian blues Boubacar Traoré connects with three leading African-American blues and roots music musicians, Cedric…
R.L. Burnside was born in Harmontown (Lafayette County) near Oxford Mississippi in November 21, 1926. He moved around the Holly Springs and Independence area making…
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Recipient (2005) Pinetop Perkins was one of the last great Mississippi bluesmen still performing in the 21st century. He made a living…
Phil Wiggins was born in Washington D.C. in 1954. He began his musical career with some of Washington’s leading blues artists, including Archie Edwards and…
Front Country – Sake of the Sound (Front Country, 2014) Front Country is an excellent San Francisco Americana band inspired by bluegrass, old time, blues,…
Little Hatch likely was the best harmonica player ever to make Kansas City home. He died on January 14, 2003 at 81 years-old. Little Hatch…
John Cephas was born in Washington D.C. in 1930 into a deeply religious family and raised in Bowling Green, Virginia. His first taste of music…