Music
Alligator Records, out of Chicago, is the numero uno blues label in the country.
July 9, 1992
The singer-harpist has made some famous new friends--just don’t ask him their names.
June 24, 1996
Travel & Experiences
Aug. 23, 2018
Hot, steaming sweat pours from Junior Wells’ hatband, glistens in rivulets down his forehead and into his eyes, which are shut tightly as if the man is in untold pain or rapture.
Feb. 8, 1995
Obituaries
Edwards, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, performed with the founders of the art form, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Son House, Tommy McLennan, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Joe Williams. He was the last of the bluesmen from his generation.
Aug. 30, 2011
All road signs point to Highway 61, a multimedia tour in which four seminal artists trace the genre from its gospel roots to soulful R&B; and beyond.
Oct. 14, 1998
Duke Tumatoe likes his job.
May 31, 1989
Chicago Blues Reunion reignites the ‘50s and ‘60s vibe. But don’t call it a revival.
Jan. 26, 2006
When he arrived in Chicago in 1960, Elvin Bishop didn’t fit the profile of an aspiring bluesman.
March 16, 1988
They call John Mayall the “Godfather of British Blues,” and,chronologically and geographically speaking, he rightly could lay claim to the sobriquet.
May 25, 1991