Mark Lanegan: Former Screaming Trees Singer Enlists Friends, Embraces the Blues on New Album
- 1:12 PM — May 29 —
- Source: AOL Music - Canada
It's been eight year since Mark Lanegan 's last solo outing, 2004's Bubblegum (credited to the Mark Lanegan Band). Read More
An interview with Belgian bluesman Tiny Legs Tim
- 7:26 PM — Apr 25 —
- Source: No Depression
Belgian bluesman Tim De Graeve, who goes by the stage name Tiny Legs Tim , is a rather new and worthwhile artist in the one-man band scene. Read More
Something Else! Interview: Soul-blues shouter Curtis Salgado
- 10:26 AM — Apr 12 —
- Source: Something Else!
Curtis Salgado, who has kicked off 2012 with a sizzling new soul-blues debut for Alligator Records, has never been fated with an uninteresting life. Read More
Bonnie Raitt's Amazing, Omnivorous, Adult-Contemporary Career
- 3:27 PM — Apr 10 —
- Source: TheAtlantic.com
With the release today of Slipstream , her 16th studio album in 41 years and the first on her own label, it's worth taking a moment to acknowledge Bonnie Raitt as the greatest adult-contemporary performer of her generation. Read More
Interview: Austin's Gary Clark Jr. Discusses Influences, Gear and His "Schizophrenic" Style
- 1:32 PM — Apr 9 —
- Source: Guitar World
The blues tradition runs deep in Texas, which has produced a constant stream of innovative blues guitarists, including T-Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddie King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Albert Collins, Billy Gibbons and Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Read More
Terry Allen, Antonin Artaud set sail in 'Ghost'
- 7:02 PM — Apr 4 —
- Source: San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco CA
Terry Allen first encountered French actor and theater visionary Antonin Artaud in an anthology of his writings at City Lights bookstore. Read More
Chris Smither's 12th album is first all-original collection
- 9:56 AM — Apr 3 —
- Source: Alt Sounds
There are such things as the cosmic blues. Read More
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Chris Smither's 'Hundred Dollar Valentine' Due in June
- 7:38 PM — Apr 2 —
- Source: All About Jazz
There are such things as the cosmic blues. Read More
Music Review: Ray Wylie Hubbard - The Grifter's Hymnal
- 11:28 AM — Mar 29 —
- Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Seattle WA
The first time I came across the name Ray Wylie Hubbard was on the credits of the Jerry Jeff Walker album Viva Terlingua , recorded live in Luckenbach, Texas. Read More
“Ragtime Texas”: a hobo songster goin’ up the country… A tribute to Henry Thomas
- 4:04 PM — Mar 23 —
- Source: No Depression
None of us will probably ever have dreamed of Henry Thomas. Read More
Biography
Sam Hopkins was a Texas country bluesman of the highest caliber whose career began in the 1920s and stretched all the way into... Read the full Lightnin' Hopkins bio.



