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CLEVELAND, Ohio — For Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Cleveland has always held a certain kind of magic. Long before platinum records, Grammy nominations and three decades on the road, he remembers pulling into ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Terry Robb will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend. Tickets are $25 per ...

When B.B. King died in May 2015 at the age of 89, his Variety obituary hailed him as “the ‘King of the Blues,’ who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known ...

LITTLE ROCK, AR (KATV) — Arkansas Originals, a newly established nonprofit, has unveiled its inaugural program, the Arkansas River Delta Blues Trail. This heritage initiative aims to preserve and ...

Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York are some of the more notable American locations for music. However, the location that partially gave these places their music: the Mississippi ...

When he slipped off stage in the middle of “Hard Times” at the Rialto Theatre on Friday night, we had an inkling that blues guitar phenom Christone “Kingfish” Ingram was going to dramatically reappear ...

Last year, Philly musician Randy Bowland was offered an unusual gig. A friend of a friend’s son, an aspiring actor, had just landed a big break in a Hollywood film. The role required him to portray a ...

Before the 1950s, guitars supported the band. By the end of the decade, they led it. This breakdown covers the rise of electric guitar heroes like Scotty Moore, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, and Chuck Berry ...

Ames-based blues guitarist Matt Woods and his band have recorded some new versions of blues classics. The Made In The Midwest concert series, presented by Des Moines Performing Arts, is about halfway ...

Some people would do anything to achieve fame and success, whether that means lying, cheating, stealing, or, in the case of blues legend Robert Johnson, selling his soul to the devil. Johnson was a ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites. Credit..