From his early years on the streets of Oakland, California and sneaking into college classrooms to continue his mostly self-taught music education, Fantastic Negrito has come a long way in...
In the film Road to Austin the late Stephen Bruton aimed to tell the story of how Austin became such a focal point for music in the last 200 years,...
Throughout her career of over twenty years, Ruthie Foster has performed on countless stages around the world, and more recently, she was one of the featured guests on the Keeping...
This week we continue honoring female musicians for Women’s History Month with Michigan’s own Janiva Magness. The Detroit native credits the time she snuck into an Otis Rush show in...
Hailing from Ponchatoula, Louisiana, and known to many as the “Soul Queen of New Orleans,” Irma Thomas began singing as a little girl for her Baptist church choir and had...
Woodstock 1969 - Canned Heat - On The Road Again Since there are already plans being put into motion for the upcoming 50th anniversary of Woodstock, we decided to celebrate this...
While she was a classical pianist by training, Nina Simone launched her career as a vocalist in 1954 when, in need of extra money, she started playing cocktail piano at...
Larkin Poe features southern torchbearers, sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell. Rebecca sings lead vocals and is a multi-instrumentalist, she plays mandolin, banjo, piano and the guitar. Megan does harmony vocals...
In the summer of 1952, Johnny Otis invited teenage songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to his home to meet 25-year-old powerhouse blues vocalist Willie Mae Thornton, who earned the...
The Beatles get a shot of rhythm and blues with their cover of Chuck Berry’s smash hit “Roll Over Beethoven”. Originally written and recorded by Chuck Berry in 1956, “Roll Over...