This Robert Mugge film is a blues primer where the pros show you how it's done.
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Awards Larry Busacca, Getty Images Tedeschi Trucks Band 's 'Revelator' has won Best Blues Album at the 2012 Grammy Awards. This is the Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks -fronted band's first Academy win. 'Revelator' is a fusion of the couple's individual styles, melding Tedeschi's husky sweet vocals with Trucks' incendiary slide-blues style.

The season of Mardi Gras, the final big blowout before the period of fasting and sacrifice called Lent, begins this weekend. Feel free to party as you please; here's some music to help you on your way. These are some Louisiana-style tunes to spice up your Mardi Gras mixtape. Play 'em loud, play 'em often and play 'em all year – make every day a Mardi Gras Day. MP3: "Between Eunice & Opelousas" by Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys MP3: "Zydeco [...]
Check back periodically, this post will be updated as more shows are announced. Go crazy. THURSDAY, APRIL 26TH Stanton Moore Trio w/ Anders Osborne @ Blue Nile - 9:30 p.m. ($15 - TICKETS) New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Gala w/ Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue + Big Sam's Funky Nation @ Hilton Riverside Hotel [...]
The overriding WOW(!) factor that jumped out most when the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival lineup was released was the caliber of both the newer and established female artists in the lineup. This year the Jazz Fest organizers hit the nail on the head with their attention to the amazing array of new [...]
Notes from YouTube: Marcia Ball at the Mobile Saenger Theater, January 20,2011 Notes from YouTube: American blues singer and pianist, Marcia Ball, talks about the new record, Roadside Attractions. Marcia was described in USA Today as "a sensation, saucy singer and superb pianist... where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet." The Boston Globe described her music as "an irresistible celebratory blend of rollicking, two-fisted New Orleans piano, Louisiana swamp-rock and smoldering Texas blues from a contemporary storyteller."

Instead of reinventing the wheel this Christmas, let's recycle a past post or two. Today, the holidays in the Lone Star State! Christmas in Texas is pretty much like Christmas in any other place - except most of the time it's hot, everybody's playin' football, people are barbecuing and drinking beer, there's a lot of country music and blues and rock, and the stuffing has jalapenos in it. Okay, it's like no place else. MP3: "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" by the Texas Tornados [...]

Instead of reinventing the wheel this Christmas, let's recycle a past post or two. Today, the holidays in the Lone Star State! Christmas in Texas is pretty much like Christmas in any other place - except most of the time it's hot, everybody's playin' football, people are barbecuing and drinking beer, there's a lot of country music and blues and rock, and the stuffing has jalapenos in it. Okay, it's like no place else. MP3: "Mason Dixon's On The Line" by Jerry Jeff Walker [...]
Ball is the real deal: equal parts New Orleans, boogie woogie, swamp music, and Texas soul all wrapped up into one package. Few things in life are as reliable as a Marcia Ball performance. For more than four decades, the Louisiana-by-way-of-Texas musician has magnificently played piano and sang her way through the blues with incredible amounts of heart and soul. Ball is the real deal: equal parts New Orleans, boogie woogie, swamp music, and Texas soul all wrapped up into one package. Her new album shows that she's also an incredible songwriter. Roadside Attractions marks the first...

Christmas in Texas is pretty much like Christmas in any other place - except most of the time it's hot, people are barbecuing and drinking beer, there's a lot of country music and blues and rock, and the stuffing has jalapenos in it. Okay, it's like no place else. MP3: "Mason Dixon's On The Line," by Jerry Jeff Walker [...]

Peace, Love & BBQ I had to chuckle as I post this because last year when I posted Marcia Ball's birthday, I got the date wrong. But after a few quick checks I think I got it right this year. March (born on March 20th 1949) is the birth month of Marcia Ball. I have posted here before how much I really like her sound and style. She was born in Texas (I don't hold that against her) but she was raised in Louisiana, and it shows. What with the [...]

Shout, Sister, Shout!: A Tribute To Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1. Nobody's Fault But Mine Joan Osborne 4:03 2. My Journey To The Sky Bonnie Raitt 4:07 3. Rock Me Toshi Reagon 5:11 4. Two Little Fishes And Five Loads Of Bread Odetta 3:25 5. This Train Janis Ian 2:43 6. Shout, Sister, Shout! Angela Strehli 3:03 7. Beams Of Heaven Phoebe Snow 3:54 8. Precious Memories Sweet Honey In The Rock 5:01 9. I Want A Tall Skinny Papa Marcia Ball 3:16 10. My Lord And I The Holmes Brothers 4:25 11. Stand [...]

According to a press release from Aligator Records; Living Blues magazine announced the nominees for their 2009 Living Blues Readers' Awards. Blues master Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater is nominated for three awards, Lil' Ed Williams (of Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials) and Marcia Ball are each nominated for two. Buckwheat Zydeco and Michael "Iron Man" Burks are nominated for one award apiece. Members of the public may vote online at www.livingblues.com anytime on or before July 5, 2009. Artists and nominations are as follows: 16th ANNUAL LIVING BLUES READERS' AWARD NOMINATIONS [...]
Lynne Terry, The OregonianMarcia Ball at the Aladdin Theater You could almost taste the hot sauce and feel the sticky sun beating down onstage at the Aladdin Theater on Wednesday in a rollicking show by Louisiana native Marcia Ball who...

Peace, Love & BBQ Feburary is the birth month of Marcia Ball. I have posted here before how much I really like her sound and style. She was born in Texas (I don't hold that against her) but she was raised in Louisiana, and it shows. What with the way she handles a keyboard, is there any question? Her recent album Peace, Love & BBQ was nominated for a Grammy Award. She wrote or co-wrote eight of the thirteen songs on the CD. It includes deep soul ballads [...]

I did not watch the Grammy Awards television show, but I did go online to Grammy.com to see who actually won the in the blues catagory. I'm presenting the various albums and the two winners. I thought it would be good to see who was nominated also. I'm glad that I pretty much covered all these albums, so you can click on the artist labels below to see my original write ups. And if you would like to listen to mp3 samples of each album you can click on the image of each album. [...]
nice piece in the ny times this morning, in anticipation of the upcoming new orleans jazz & heritage festival , on the added emotional resonance of the randy newman song "louisiana 1927." originally written in the 1970s (and included on newman's album good old boys) about the great mississippi flood fifty years earlier, "the song's lament of being battered once by nature and again by a callous government had resonated with flood-ravaged audiences from new orleans to lake charles well before 2005. then katrina came, and mr. newman seemed downright clairvoyant," [...]
And you thought The Raw Flame was dead...surprise! I've been busy with a little side project (please don't be too critical; these are Genuine Basement Tapes!) and anyway, there just hasn't been much free music popping out on the net that's really caught my attention. Until the SXSW mp3s came out, that is. Two years back, there were a bunch of awesome tracks. Last year was pretty mediocre. This year, there's a lot of promise, and I'm really just getting started at this point. An easy pick is Ms. Marcia [...]