However, on IV, released in 1971, Led Zeppelin were ready to explore blues more curiously and with more historical closeness. The fourth studio album closes with “When The Levee Breaks,” which begins ...

Jim Woodcock was still in high school, some 20 years before he would become senior vice president of marketing and communications for the Blues in 1997. But he vividly remembers the TV commercial in ...

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Ask a random sample of music fans to name a living blues musician. Most will probably mention B.B. King, who turns 88 this month. A few might say Buddy Guy, a comparatively young 77. Or those who ...

We often associate revamping decades-old tunes with genres like folk and country music. But there are plenty of rock ‘n’ roll cuts that take blues standards and turn them into something new, gritty, ...

Legendary 86-year-old musician Buddy Guy wants to keep the blues alive. It’s been his mission his entire life to honor and participate in the significant musical style. Even before he could put words ...

The music was hot. Dudes in the crowd could rock to it, and the girls could dance to it. And because of that, in the early/mid ’90s Blues Old Stand became one of the Southeast’s greatest “almost ...