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Blues Record Company News, Ronnie Earl, Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial and More

RECORD COMPANY NEWS: Alligator Records has just signed its first non-American musician. His name is Peter Hole, a slide guitar player from Australia, who, according to the folks at Alligator, […]

Blues News February 1992

Congratulations to blues Grammy nominees: TRADITIONAL BLUES: Charles Brown, All My Life; Johnnie Johnson, Johnnie B. Bad; B.B. King, Live at the Apollo; John Lee Hooker, Mr. Lucky; and Taj […]

Blues News January 1992

In the wake of a burgeoning awareness of blues legends who have received little or no recognition for their contributions to the music, a group from Helena, Arkansas is making […]

Blues News December 1991

December marks the anniversary of one of the first known written references to having “the blues”: in 1862, Charlotte Porten, a free black woman, wrote those words in her diary […]