Blues Birthdays: May 20 – May 26 Blues Birthday's for this week include Son House, Richard Robertson, Mamie Smith and Levon Helm! Eddie House, Jr. AKA Son House: 5/21/1902 Influential Delta, country, and...
New Stage Show On Son House, Who Influenced Clapton, Muddy Et Al. A new stage show about the pioneering blues man Son House has opened in Rochester, New York. The very...
Keeping The Blues Alive - Blues Music Birthdays May 6 - May 13 This week’s blues birthdays feature musicians Amos "Bumble Bee" Slim, Robert Johnson, Joe Bonamassa, Dave Mason, Claude Trucks AKA...
Jack White – "I’m Shakin’" Jack White’s blistering cover of Little Willie John’s song “I’m Shakin” brings blues-rock to a whole new audience. White’s covers are unique in his ability to...
Robert Johnson Studio Portrait. Hooks Bros. Memphis. Circa 1935. Only a few photographs exist of Robert Johnson, which only adds to the mystery surrounding the legend’s life and death. The most...
Robert Johnson, the legendary blues musician, died on August 16, 1938 at the young age of 27. The age and year of Johnson's death makes him the earliest member of the...
This video is of Keb’ Mo’ performing a stellar version of Robert Johnson’s classic “Love In Vain” on Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis. The show aired on May 12,...
To celebrate the birthday of the one and only Eric Clapton this week, we decided to ask everyone here at Keeping the Blues Alive which of Slowhand's songs they loved the...
March 23rd marked the 11th anniversary of Eric Clapton's sixteenth album, Me and Mr. Johnson. The album was the English rock guitar legend's first full-length tribute to Robert Johnson, who is perhaps the...
With the dawn of this week came some of the most promising and exciting news for the genre of the blues as a whole that I have heard in some...