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Buddy Guy: Against All Odds
Editor’s Note: Don Wilcock wrote Buddy Guy’s 1993 authorized biography, Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues, chronicling the bluesman’s remarkable journey from the Chicago blues scene to international...
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Brant Buckley’s “We Love Da Bears” Brings Blues Heart to Chicago Bears Fandom
Let’s just say I’m hardly a football kinda gal. I don’t know a Cover 2 from a cover song. Ask me what a running back is running back from, and we’ll both walk away with more questions than answers....
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Exclusive Premiere: “Keep On Drinkin’” — Reed Turchi x Luther Dickinson...
American Blues Scene is proud to premiere “Keep On Drinkin’,” the lead single from Brooklyn-based Grammy-winning musician, poet, and producer Reed Turchi’s upcoming anniversary reissue of Road Ends in...
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Exclusive Premiere: Mike Richmond Debuts “Without An Audience” from New Solo LP
Mike Richmond has spent decades making music, but “Without An Audience,” exclusively premiering on American Blues Scene, may be his most direct statement yet about why artists keep creating in the...
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Gregg Allman: A Blues Scholar With A Lifetime of Rock Royalty
The following interview was originally published by American Blues Scene in 2013. We are republishing it today in remembrance of Gregg Allman, who died nine years ago on May 27, 2017. Gregg Allman at...
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Exclusive Premiere: Chris Stamey & Jody Stephens Take on “Hey Bulldog” with...
“Hey Bulldog,” a Beatles deep cut, arrives exclusively on American Blues Scene as the second single from Modernism, the new album from Chris Stamey featuring Big Star’s Jody Stephens as a special...
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Top 10 Chicago Blues Graves You Should Visit
#1 Big Bill Broonzy Born William Lee Conley Broonzy, Big Bill Broonzy was born June 26th, 1903 in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Broonzy’s guitar style sounds like a full ragtime orchestra, and he...
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Charley Patton: Remembering the Delta Blues Pioneer 92 Years After His Death
Reports vary on his date of birth. But Charley Patton, one of the earliest blues artists on record*, is said to have been born 134 years ago this month in April 1891 (exact date and year unknown), in...
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Dave Mason, Traffic Co-Founder and “We Just Disagree” Singer-Songwriter, Dies...
In conversation, Dave Mason spoke like a working musician first, still engaged with the day-to-day of it and more concerned with the next show than revisiting the past. “You better be somewhat...
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Exclusive Album Premiere: Todd Albright’s ‘Blues For Dexter Linwood,’...
Ace fingerstyle guitarist Todd Albright’s new album Blues For Dexter Linwood, produced by Charlie Parr (Smithsonian Folkways), is premiering in full today via American Blues Scene, ahead of its April...
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Muddy Waters Confidential: Things You May Not Know about The Hoochie Coochie Man
Muddy Waters was the most important link between his urban black audience in the nightclubs of Chicago and the young white fans who came to know him as a result of the folk music craze beginning in...
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Big Bill Hill’s ‘Red Hot & Blues’ and the lo-fi birth of soul dance television
It was a Friday night ritual. As a teenager in the Chicago suburbs, I used to watch blues DJ Big Bill Hill’s Red Hot & Blues, a teenage soul-music dance show that aired in gloriously grainy...
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Blues Innovator John Hammond Dies at 83
John Hammond was the first American artist to show the British Invasion rockers how to blend blues and rock without an English accent. The Stones may have rocked out, and Tom Rush may have given the...
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Red Shield in the Black Hills: The Final Journey of Jesse Graves
“A farewell to Wahacanka Luta—the Delta bluesman, medicine man, and spiritual guide who found his final home in the sacred Paha Sapa.” Jesse Graves (1949 –2023), born Michael Floyd, was an American...
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Rhett Miller Brings Loud, Literary Folk to the Heart of Arts Spaces
The answer to the lyric “What’s so fine about art?” comes easy on a night like tonight. Iridescent mirror mosaics catch the light, opalescent pearls and pink hues fill every corner of my vision, and...
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Eric Deaton and the Lifeblood of Hill Country Blues
Eric Deaton is a Grammy-nominated steward of North Mississippi Hill Country blues, apprenticed directly under legends Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside at the juke joints where the music was born....
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From Moonshine to Modal Grooves: Luther Dickinson and the North Mississippi...
Luther Dickinson, the pioneering guitarist and singer/songwriter at the helm of the North Mississippi Allstars, plays what he calls “weirdo music for weirdo people” — a hybrid take on Hill Country...
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Bob Weir in His Own Words
I interviewed Bob Weir three times early in this century. He may be gone in the flesh, but like Jerry Garcia his influence will be felt for centuries. The quotes below are from interviews we did in...
View ArticleNew & Renewed: New Releases and Holiday Classics from Chamomile & Whiskey,...
Christmas day is upon us. I mean really upon us. And some of us are scrounging for last minute gift ideas. Well, music always makes a good gift and here are a few ideas of music you can share with...
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Delilah, We’re All a Little to Blame: A Midwest Story at Summerfest 2025
Delilah, I can promise you, by the time we are through, the world will never be the same. And you’re to blame. I come from a lil suburb outside of Chicago. I remember the garage shows, the VFW nights,...
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