Robert Pete Williams

Matson Films has acquired the documentary "Music From the Big House" for a domestic theatrical release on more than 100 screens beginning in June. The film, which focuses on a concert at Angola State Penitentiary by Canadian blues artist Rita Chiarelli together with prison inmates, will coincide with a 70-city tour of live performances by Chiarelli across the country. Read More

From North Carolina, Bruce Piephoff is a bard whose music will turn a smile from a frown. Read More

Mark Lanegan can back up the best of 'em or belt it out on his own, and his new album Blues Funeral is creeping over the horizon on its way to an early February release. Read More

Though Texas bluesman Johnny Nicholas has played with the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf, Eric Clapton and Bonnie Raitt , not to mention his former group Asleep At The Wheel , in recent years, youíd be more likely to find him at his roadhouse restaurant The Hill Top Cafe near Fredricksburg, TX. Read More

Slim Harpo (1924 -1970) was the man alright. Read More

Robert Pete Williams worked from the field holler tradition, with free-form lyrics that were usually unrhymed, making him the most idiosyncratic and West African-sounding of the country blues players, if not the most emotionally personal. Read More

"Arithmetic arithmetock, turn the hands back on the clock..."Read More

Homegrown Coffeehouse opens its doors at 8 p.m. Read More