When blues guitarist and vocalist Stevie Ray Vaughan released Texas Flood in 1983, he introduced Texas blues to a much broader audience than it had previously known. His impact was great enough that ...

Nothing says “I’m hurtin'” like the wail of a mournful guitar. It’s a sound that melts the heart and pierces the soul. While the blues saw a resurgence in the ’80s and ’90s, it’s fallen off the ...

Former Amarillo rocker Stephen Crane will celebrate the release of his latest blues CD on Saturday. Crane, former lead singer of Baby, one of Amarillo's hottest bands in the 1970s, will bring his ...

The blues seeps into the very soul of North Texas. From the days of Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lead Belly to the heart-stopping melodies of Leon Bridges, the blues undeniably sings Dallas-Fort Worth’s ...

I have a faded copy of the July|August 1965 issue of the magazine Blues Unlimited, which includes an essay, “Working on the Project – T for Texas; T for Toil,” from music historian Paul Oliver. Oliver ...

The annual International Blues Challenge crowned its winners Saturday night at Downtown Memphis' Orpheum Theatre, capping the 38th edition of the event. The Houston, Texas, combo led and named after ...

Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams Jr., and Stevie Ray Vaughan all made their guitars sing the blues. However, none of their careers would likely have existed without Lightnin’ Hopkins. Today, we’re ...

Johnny Winter, the Texas blues guitarist who added his own unique current of electricity to songs like “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Johnny B. Goode” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in the late Sixties and ...

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