The consistency of impressive quality in the worlds of jazz and blues in Nashville allows fans to enjoy great music year-round. The amount of noteworthy events makes it impossible to cite everything ...

The phone rings exactly at three o’clock. On the other end of the line is energetic, talkative and informative Blues Traveler guitarist Chan Kinchla calling from ...

On Friday, October 20th Blues Traveler will release Traveler’s Soul, their fifteenth full-length studio album, on Round Hill Records/Black Hill Records. The quintet, comprised of John Popper (vocals, ...

UPDATE as of Fri 2/24/2023, 2 PM: This concert has been canceled. Cicero Blake’s career spans the trajectory of modern soul music from doo-wop to contemporary southern soul-blues. Blake was born in ...

The KALW Music Team put together a list of their favorite albums released by Bay Area artists, including LaRussell, The Gold ...

As logical humans, we know this is objectively true: Music doesn’t have a temperature. And yet as emotional humans, we also know weather has vibes and warm weather universally = blues music. So this ...

The cover of Toni Lynn Washington's new album "Faith." (Photo courtesy Allan Dines; cover art by Heather Balchunas) Long before she became known as “Boston’s Queen of Soul and Blues,” Toni Lynn ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - “They” said it would never happen, but it boy-howdy did it. To paraphrase Soul Coughing’s anti-hit “Screenwriter’s Blues,” it was 9 p.m. and we were “lis-ten-ing to Los Angeles” by ...

Austin musician W.C. Clark, known as “the Godfather of Austin Blues” and a mentor to Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died. He was 84. After learning guitar at a young age, the Austin native played his first ...

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