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Its time to dig out the flattop and banish the blues with this exercise that combines elements of Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson, and Skip James

From the July 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY STEVE JAMES In the close, dimly lit quarters of the subterranean Gaslight Cafe, on MacDougal Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, a lot of what is now music history and legend happened as the basket was passed and the upstairs neighbors called in noise complaints. Besides hosting germinal performances by…

For this Acoustic Guitar Session, Elijah McLaughlin and Jason Toth of the Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble perform two fingerstyle pieces from the ensemble's latest album

Henry Cook and I hope you will join us this Saturday night, October 29, at 9:00 as we present a classic Halloween episode of Time For The Blues! The two of us really enjoy the holiday and have we got some blues numbers for you to help you celebrate.

Colin Keane moved clear of Billy Lee at the top of this season’s Irish Flat Jockeys’ Championship courtesy of a treble at Dundalk on Friday night. T...

The musician, who is performing Sunday in Portland, tells a dystopian story through Black folk songs and spoken word on 'The New Faith.'

Rory Block offers blues takes on female pop hits. The best songs on Aint Nobody Worried showcase her soulful guitar playing as much as her expressive voice.

The pandemic years unleashed waves of musical discovery for many artists, and a look back at past work; and in some cases, material that an artist long

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964 that Nick Perls, Dick Waterman and Phil Spiro "rediscovered" him working at a gas station. He was completely unaware of the interest in folk blues at the time (Skip James and Bukka White were already playin...

Americana music is full of conversion stories - artists who didn’t grow up amid the traditions they inhabit but who, like Paul on the road to Damascus, experienced a revelation. Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch discovered country and bluegrass music as young adults and made it their own, in two famous examples. Cristina Vane had a similar epiphany, but she had to travel farther to manifest it.