DALTON — There’s something that all blues musicians share: A time that they can recall with almost perfect clarity that they knew they were destined to play that heartbreaking, house-rocking music.

If you’ve ever tuned into KJZZ on Sunday nights you know Bob Corritore. Corritore is not just the host of Those Lowdown Blues ...

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 ...

Tucson bluesman Tom Walbank wasn’t supposed to start playing until 8 that first Thursday April night. But by 7:15, 7:20, the small downtown Tap & Bottle was already filling up. They moved out the ...

Mark Hummel didn’t set out to be an impresario. He had no burning ambition to corner the market on the world’s greatest blues harmonica players. But after getting a bracing shot of energy from ...

Old Crow Medicine Show became a household name in large part thanks to their 2004 megahit “Wagon Wheel” – an undeniably catchy arrangement by band co-founder Katch Secor of a mumbled outtake recorded ...

You can be sure that folks on the historic downtown hotel’s patio were standing throughout the concert. Hummel expects the same when he and Funderburgh return for the 12th annual KXCI House Rockin’ ...

Longtime East Bay blues harmonica performer Mark Hummel and his Blues Survivors will headline this Sunday’s Blues, Brews & BBQ festival in Washington Park on Alameda’s West End. Hummel says it’s the ...

August "Gus" Major's learned to love the blues from his dad who is in a band. So it only made sense that the 10-year-old would enter the Youth Harmonica Contest at the Iowa State Fair. Some might have ...