It's not just great song writing, warm guitars, a nut-tight rhythm section, and the occasional blues harp riffs that make The Stone Foxes so good; the Bay Area band consisting of brothers Shannon and ...

“Write this down: Blow 3, blow 4, draw 3, blow 3,” Phil Kaplan said to his new class of Newton harmonica students. Kaplan told the class he pulled the riff from “Mannish Boy,” the popular 1955 Muddy ...

Even after all the wear and tear, John Popper hasn’t lost a thing from his fastball. Yes, Blues Traveler still brings it. If you don’t know them by name, you probably still know their music. First off ...

Chattanooga's Revelry Room hosted a Thursday night concert featuring Blues Traveler, with opening act Ripe. Doors opened at 8 p.m. with a 9 p.m. start. Blues Traveler is often recognized by their ...

Ever since he moved to Detroit from his native Alabama in 1953, singer-harmonica player Little Sonny has been among Detroit’s elite blues performers. The man who got his start with Washboard Willie ...

BRADENTON, Fla. — Delbert McClinton has released four CDs that have reached No. 1 on the blues albums chart, has been inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame and won a Grammy Award.

Blues tributes are too often dire affairs—note-for-note reworkings of timeworn ideas and riffs that betray an almost puritanical obsession with “authenticity.” That approach, of course, dishonors the ...