Veteran blues musician Tinsley Ellis takes on new territory and strips down, delving into the acoustic blues traditions of ...

Born in 1917 near Clarksdale, Mississippi, John Lee Hooker's first exposure to music was via the religious songs approved of by his preacher father. All other music was forbidden in the house, and it ...

Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s well-traveled “Lackawanna Blues,” a loving but sharp-witted remembrance of a boardinghouse queen and her raffish subjects, rambles like an extended improvisation in its new ...

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 ...