Lonnie Johnson’s Blues & Ballads gets an audiophile-grade vinyl reissue via Bluesville and Craft. Intimate, detailed blues for hot summer nights. As summer kicks into high gear and the heat starts ...

Gary Kemp received help from an unlikely source when he had writer's block while working on his third solo album. A phone call from former Pulp guitarist Richard Hawley prompted the Spandau Ballet ...

When male and female singers do romantic songs together, concertgoers are often left wondering, “What if the connection was real?” If an actual relationship is involved, the performance gets an added ...

Dave Pomeroy — revered session bassist, president of the Nashville Musicians Association and international vice president of the American Federation of Musicians — is talking about an album he ...

Bandits, Ballads and Blues is almost certainly the final album by James Talley, the Nashville singer-songwriter who cemented his place in history as one of the great musical storytellers with a ...

Dead & Company: blues, ballads, and lots of drums for ‘One More Saturday Night’ at Fenway As long as the band’s legacy continues to evolve in some way, shape, or form, there’s no sign that it will be ...

Vibraphonist Joe Locke doesn't seem to want to put his mallets down for very long. As soon as he arrived at Motéma Music, he released the modern-leaning Signing (Motéma Music, 2012) with the Joe Locke ...

The newly released DVD Ballads, Blues, and Bluegrass is a piece of Greenwich Village history unlike any I have ever seen. Back in 1961, Alan Lomax was approached by an English producer to film ...

When music fans think about the genre of classic rock, often the big and bombastic comes to mind. Giant stacks of speakers exploding. Guitars and drum kits smashed on stage. Instruments ablaze. Hotel ...