Blues Music

Jam together during the holidays at Otis Taylor's Trance Blues Festival

Rory Block on the struggles and triumphs that happen When a Woman Gets the Blues

​Rory Block (due April 21st at Rock and Soul Café in Boulder and on April 22nd at Swallow Hill in Denver) was fortunate to be at the epicenter of the roots music explosion of the late '50s and early '60s as a child in Greenwich Village. Block rubbed shoulders not just with Bob Dylan and Pete ... More >>

Five facts about T-Model Ford you should know

Peter Lee​ T Model Ford is sweet tea spiked with moonshine -- something simple and sweet but with a hell of a kick. In the late 1990s Fat Possum Records discovered him and put out his first album, Pee-Wee Get Your Gun. Since then, he's recorded five more albums, including his latest, I'm a La ... More >>

The Big Motif

The Big Motif
Self-released

Delta Sonics

Never Enough
Self-released

Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records can't handle the truth

Live Review: The Shuffletones at Dazzle

Cadillac Records can't handle the truth

Lonely at the 'Top

Pinetop Perkins is among the last survivors from the classic era of the blues.

The Rap-Up: Apostle, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Mos Def, Beyonce

Pinetop Perkins is among the last survivors from the classic era of the blues.

Duke Robillard Gets Around

This versatile guitarist plays more than just the blues.

This Just In…

The latest nightlife news.

Joe Bonamassa

This blues revisionist insists that the genre must progress or die out.

Charlie Musselwhite

Thursday, May 25, Walnut Room, 303-292-1700.

Bluesman Walking

Consummate sideman Eddie Turner steps into the spotlight.

Next Best Thing

If you weren't at this landmark blues concert, Lightning in a Bottle will do.

Retroactive

George Thorogood

Pinetop Perkins

Thursday, May 13, Soiled Dove, 303-299-0100

Best Blues Artist

Otis Taylor

Junkman Cometh

Bluesman Willie Houston turns a junkyard into a juke joint.

Classic Revisited

Colorado Ballet's Don Quixote rides again

The Beatdown

Damn right, Brendan's has got the blues.

Best Blues Musician

Otis Taylor

Hit Pick

Otis Taylor

Crashing the Glass Ceiling

Deborah Coleman is one of the country's emerging blues guitarists. She's also one of the genre's last black female bandleaders left anywhere.

Discovered Gem

Robert Belfour is Fat Possum's latest unearthed treasure.

Bluer Than the Blues

Otis Taylor gets the break he deserves without putting on a happy face.

Blues Traveler

Ben Stevens is on the road again -- and he couldn't be happier.

Wake-up Call

Sleepy LaBeef hasn't tired of American roots.

He's the Piano Man

Pinetop Perkins can't return to his blues roots -- because he never left them.

The Man Who Would Be King

The thrill still isn't gone for B.B. King, American royal.

Back to Basics

The thrill still isn't gone for B.B. King, American royal.

Log On

Doo Rag's Bob Log III proves that he can be outlandish all by himself.

Letters

Doo Rag's Bob Log III proves that he can be outlandish all by himself.

Hot Rod

Rod Piazza isn't your average blues harmonica player.

Snake Charmers

Denver's Boa and the Constrictors squeeze new life out of jump blues.

A Taste of Honeyboy

David Honeyboy Edwards wrote the book on blues in the twentieth century.

Night & Day

April 16 - 22, 1998

A Rainbow in Brown

Blue is only one of the musical colors produced by Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.

Etc.

Outstanding in His Field The recordings of Alan Lomax dig up the roots of American music.

No Regular Guy

Outstanding in His Field The recordings of Alan Lomax dig up the roots of American music.

Just in Kase

Outstanding in His Field The recordings of Alan Lomax dig up the roots of American music.

A Different Shade of Blue

Corey Harris got to the Delta by way of Denver.

Last Call

Nobody played the blues like Bobby Hornbuckle. Now he's living them to the end.

John Hammond's Blues

Nobody played the blues like Bobby Hornbuckle. Now he's living them to the end.

Thrills for the week

Nobody played the blues like Bobby Hornbuckle. Now he's living them to the end.

NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE

Nobody played the blues like Bobby Hornbuckle. Now he's living them to the end.

RUSH'S HOUR

THE TIME MAY FINALLY HAVE COME FOR OTIS RUSH.

IS HE BLUE?

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE PLAY THE BLUES THE NEW-FASHIONED WAY.

CRITIC'S CHOICE

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE PLAY THE BLUES THE NEW-FASHIONED WAY.

MUSSEL MAN

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE PLAY THE BLUES THE NEW-FASHIONED WAY.