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US R&B legend Big Mama Thornton is one of the forgotten "originators", to use Dr John's term for Professor Longhair, of rock'n'roll. The late Alabama native, who died almost exactly 38 years ago on July 25, 1984, recorded the first version of Leiber and Stoller's Hound Dog in 1952. After the record was released in 1953, it reached the top spot on Billboard's Rhythm & Blues Records Chart and sold 2 million copies. It was her biggest hit, but it paled in comparison to young Elvis Presley's version, which sold more than 10 million copies and helped ...

Celebrate the 47th anniversary of Antone's with the recently reunited blues-rock band co-starring Charlie Sexton and Doyle Bramhall II.

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

Marshfield keyboardist Anthony Geraci releases his ninth album, “Blues Called My Name,” on May 20, with a string of regional gigs.

Blues survives, always, in Chicago. Even after the darkest phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.