The Greatness of Lightnin Hopkins
May 30, 2019
The Greatness of Lightnin Hopkins - Video of The Week This video opens up with brief interviews with Jimmie Vaughan and B. B. King. They talk about Lighnin Hopkins guitar playing...
R. L. Burnside Sees His Jumper on the Line
April 19, 2019
R. L. Burnside was one of those guys who never really felt the need to use the whole stage in order to give a good show. In fact, he was...
Live at Farm Aid 1986 – Steppenwolf – Born to Be Wild
April 12, 2019
This week’s video of the week has the 80s written all over it: the hair, the clothes… and did we mention the hair? With the same bravado since the Canadian...
Fantastic Negrito Belts Out the Blues
April 5, 2019
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...
Red Hot Blues In Austin
March 29, 2019
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,...
Janiva Magness Makes It Rain in California
March 15, 2019
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...