The promotional sheet for Vintage Trouble describes the act as blues/funk/rock. While that’s true, they left out some major ingredients to the Californian-based quartet’s sound: soul and gospel. Those ...

With this year’s Blues on Belgrade, set for Saturday on lower North Mankato’s main street, Jake Downs is again showing that persistence pays off. Band schedules don’t always work out for them to play ...

The musical connection between Emmett Sheehan and Matt Skinner in 2002 led to the formation of the Jensen Connection in Iowa City. Since then, the band has built a following by playing all over the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - As with many young talented blues-based guitar pickers over the last 50-plus years, singer-songwriter-guitarist Gary Clark Jr. was often tagged as yet another new Hendrix for his ...

Award-winning blues and rock artist Tommy Castro returns to World Records with his band, The Painkillers, for a show on ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better combo of blues rockers sharing the same stage than what went down at Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park on Sunday, Aug. 24. Out in support of their ...

When Robert Randolph makes his first-ever New Hampshire stage appearance in Plymouth on Friday, he and his Family Band will showcase a style they've honed through six albums and more than a decade of ...

Grammy Award-nominated guitarist Joe Bonamassa will bring his “Blues Deluxe Tour” to central Pa. this summer. He will perform on Aug. 21, 2024, at Hershey Theatre. The 21-city tour starts July 17 in ...

English Blues rocker, guitarist, and vocalist Joanne Shaw Taylor delivered an inspiring performance during a night of great music at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts on October 23, ...

In the beginning, there was blues. It poured out of the American South on acoustic guitars and pianos and made it up north ...

While synths and new wave brought in the decade and glam metal closed it, there were still plenty of acts championing a blues rock sound and thriving in the 1980s. In looking back at the roots of rock ...