Lightnin' Hopkins

It's been eight year since Mark Lanegan 's last solo outing, 2004's Bubblegum (credited to the Mark Lanegan Band). Read More

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

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

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

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 first encountered French actor and theater visionary Antonin Artaud in an anthology of his writings at City Lights bookstore. Read More

There are such things as the cosmic blues. Read More

There are such things as the cosmic blues. Read More

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

None of us will probably ever have dreamed of Henry Thomas. Read More