Everyone knows that Joe Williams sang the hell out of the blues, but do you know what else he sang the hell out of? Everything. Williams’ expansive wheelhouse encompassed romantic ballads, songs of ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

Helen Humes and Big Joe Turner never recorded together and do not seem to have ever shared a vocal, but their careers had ...

For Jim Casey, the blues hits right in his soul. “Blues and jazz are two genres that get right to the point,” Casey says. “That’s what I enjoy about them.” Casey is a board member of the Canyon Blues ...