Local crooner Jesse Dean performs for a summer picnic celebrating rural life at Ozark Folkways Saturday, June 29 in Winslow.

Leadership isn’t just about control—it’s about rhythm, chemistry, and knowing when to take the solo. Blues rock bands can ...

In Deep by Andy Aledort. DEEP WATERS Over the course of the last few columns, we’ve been exploring different ways to ...

Before Woodstock and FM radio shaped the sound of the 1970s, the 1960s were already roaring with American bands pushing rock ...

When I think about the roots of blues music—the raw honesty, the pain wrapped in poetry, the joy carved out of hardship—I ...

Craft Recordings and Bluesville Records have teamed up with Acoustic Sounds to reissue two landmark blues titles, each ...

The Courant’s arts picks for June 15-21 include rock and blues legends, instrumental ensembles, comedy acts and Broadway cabaret performers.

As the drummer for the legacy band Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dave Getz played on one of the greatest rock albums ...

As the drummer for the legacy band Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dave Getz played on one of the greatest rock albums of all time, “Cheap Thrills,” a No. 1 record in 1968 that made a ...

You had jazz instrumental albums, but not rock So Rising Force ended up making ... Literally, unless you were, like, a blues player, no one was playing Strats “The Strat was about as ‘out ...

There are almost too many compilations of Led Zeppelin songs that are one-to-one exact copies of an early blues musician ... and found a way to provide a relatively niche mostly instrumental rock band ...

The blues sits at the heart of rock and roll – a well-known fact ... Characterised by a simple instrumental construction of an acoustic guitar and harmonica, coupled with his intricate lyricism, which ...