Jimmy Johnson, Chicago blues master, dies at 93. February 3, 2022. 6 min. Jimmy Johnson performs at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. (Rick Diamond/Getty Images) By Phil Davison.

Maintaining his stature as a blues superstar for nearly four decades hasn’t been a cakewalk for Bobby “Blue” Bland. But you’d never know it from the veteran singer’s s… ...

When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 2: First Time I Met the Blues. With the four-disc series When the Sun Goes Down, RCA surveys the massively influential Bluebird/Victor catalog of early blues.

Dive into the career of the legendary blues guitarist, a pioneer of Chicago’s West Side sound and major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Featuring new performances ...

Craft Recordings proudly announces an audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl reissue of Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 1, the first installment of the seminal 1966 blues trilogy. Featuring recordings by ...

Can 15 years have gone by since Chicago blues master Billy Branch released a studio album as bandleader?Apparently so, but he surely sounds as if he’s trying to make up for lost time with ...

Corky Siegel feels fine. “Terrific on all counts,” he says. “Just terrific.” That is good to hear and it is always good to talk to Siegel, a Chicago treasure and a man with a million ...

A member of Chicago blues royalty, a reunited blues supergroup and a collective of top-tier harmonica players ... Chicago blues royalty, Canadian harp masters among artists on deck for Calgary ...

PBS doc traces how Chicago changed Buddy Guy, and how Buddy Guy changed the world ‘American Masters’ film includes footage of the guitarist’s career highs and lows, as well as definitions of ...