“Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away” follows Louisiana native Guy from cotton fields to the White House. The PBS "American Masters" documentary will debut on WLPB, Channel 27, at 8 p.m. Tuesday ...

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All his life, bluesman Milton Campbell–better known as Little Milton–has been compared to B.B. King. But all he ever wanted was to sound like T-Bone Walker. “He was a great guitarist, a great ...

Damn right, he’s got his own doc. Buddy Guy, the blues legend whose 1991 “Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues” firmly established him as part of the form’s upper firmament after decades of work, is the ...

Matt (Guitar) Murphy, a masterful bluesman who played with Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James, Chuck Berry and Memphis Slim but was best known as a member of the Blues Brothers band, died Friday in Miami. He ...

Steve Buchtel had stopped with a group of about 20 fellow bicyclists at Restvale Cemetery in Alsip to listen to blues riffs when a groundskeeper walked over to find out what was going on. It was ...

A band plays at the Checkerboard Lounge. Published May 30, 1977. Photo by Jonas Dovydenas. Courtesy of the Chicago Ethnic Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. For decades ...

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 ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Tony Glover, a harmonica player who as a member of the group Koerner, Ray and Glover was at the center of the folk music revival of the 1960s and helped introduce a new audience to the blues, died on ...

The North Mississippi Allstars (from left: Sharde Thomas, Luther Dickinson, Carl Dufresne and Cody Dickinson) Driving through northern Mississippi, one is immediately struck by how empty and how poor ...

Were you to query a Sam Cooke aficionado as to what the man lauded as the inventor of soul did best, an answer of “singles, naturally” would likely follow. Cooke’s voice belongs on the shortlist of ...