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Little Freddie King, an American Delta blues guitarist from the old school, is closing in on his 83rd birthday, and when he performs a Mandeville Live! concert on March 31, he will bring almost seven ...

Joe Louis Walker, the guitarist and electric blues musician, died at the age of 75 last month. Walker’s family confirmed the musician’s death, citing a cardiac-related illness, per Rolling Stone.

Twenty-four years old and a pro since seventh grade, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has brought old-school electric blues far beyond the nostalgia-circuit audiences lesser guitarists are content to court ...

Billy Crawford has been a mainstay on the regional music scene since I can remember; a name synonymous with blues music and virtuoso guitar, derived from years of touring and recording with some of ...

Producer Vernon Reid got James Blood Ulmer into Jimi Hendrix’s old studios with an electric sitar, banjo, a melodica and some electronic geek-box called a Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee. The ...

The blues took form in the Mississippi Delta and nearby river towns, where Black workers used song to mark time, trade news, and voice grief under Jim Crow rules. Travel to these places adds context ...