Country bluesman Jim Brewer gigged for decades at No Exit and the Maxwell Street market, but he didn’t leave a recorded ...

Ah spring, when a (not so) young man's thoughts turn to vinyl and the upcoming Record Store Day celebrations, which this year ...

Music is everywhere in the Delta ... where legends like “Father of the Blues” Charlie Patton and Howlin’ Wolf began. Given its cultural gravitas, the site is fairly understated – a ...

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Interactive experiences range from music producing pods to a touchscreen ... the grave site of “Father of the Delta Blues” Charley Patton and the old WROX radio station in Clarksdale, known ...

I still go back to his music; it’s wonderful and brilliant ... into Silverdale in Glasgow and swapped them for jazz, Charlie Patton and Son House. Back then I’d put my name on albums ...

His eldest brother, John, a renowned trombone and saxophone player, exposed him at the age of 12, to the music of Count Basie, John Coltrain, Charlie Parker and the ... John Ore, Big John Patton, ...

Charley Crockett strides into Studio 3 at Sunset Sound on a recent morning like a guy who’s never lived a day without long legs. Dressed in a brown leather jacket, crisply pressed blue jeans and a ...

B efore Charley Crockett ... and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The music ranges from hard country (“Life of a Country Singer,” “Under Neon Lights”) to twangy blues (“Easy Money,” “This ...