modern blues
Rick Estrin: The Call From Muddy He Never Got
Rick Estrin: The Call From Muddy He Never Got Rick Estrin stood at the Sutherland Hotel in Chicago, nineteen years old, blowing…
ZZ Ward: The Blues-Pop Crossover You Didn’t Expect
ZZ Ward: Stunning Blues Power From Oregon to the World ZZ Ward was twelve years old the first time she stepped on…
Jonathon Boogie Long: Baton Rouge Prodigy Carries On
Jonathon Boogie Long: An Epic New Force in the Blues At fourteen years old, Jonathon Boogie Long made a choice that most…
Gary Clark Jr: 4 Grammys and a New Generation of Blues
Gary Clark Jr: Austin’s Four-Time Grammy-Winning Blues Revolutionary In 2017, a neighbor walked up to Gary Clark Jr outside his fifty-acre ranch…
Fantastic Negrito: Oakland’s 3-Time Grammy Blues Rebel
Fantastic Negrito: Oakland’s Three-Time Grammy-Winning Blues Revolutionary In 1999, Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz lay in a hospital bed in a coma, his right…
Larkin Poe: How Two Sisters Brought Blues Rock Back
Larkin Poe almost didn’t happen. In December 2009, Rebecca and Megan Lovell watched their bluegrass trio — the Lovell Sisters — fall…
Ally Venable: Texas Teen Signed by Buddy Guy Himself
Ally Venable: The Texas Blues Guitarist Rewriting the Rules Ally Venable was twelve years old, riding in her father’s car in Kilgore,…