Blues Music Artists
Cedric Burnside
Blues drummer Cedric Burnside couldn’t have gotten a better lineage of music richness if he’d requested it himself. The grandson of legendary bluesman R.L. Burnside and the son of blues drummer Calvin Jackson, this bright shinning light on the blues scene learned his craft early and has taken all the necessary steps toward an ascent…
Read MoreJW Jones
Southern Blues from Way Up North The consensus among knowledgeable blues fans is that the genre has its origins in the American south. Legends from the Mississippi Delta such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker as well as Texas blues rockers like T-Bone Walker, Big Mama Thornton and Stevie Ray Vaughan all…
Read MoreDanielle Nicole
When it comes to an ability to belt out blues that bring your bones to a simmer, vocalist and bassist supreme Danielle Nicole is cut from the same soulful cloth as Etta James, Koko Taylor and Shemekia Copeland. In other words she is the vocal personification of everything blues fans love about the genre. She…
Read MoreMarcus King Band
From Jerry Lee Lewis to Lynyrd Skynyrd to the Derek Trucks Band, blues-flavored southern rock has earned a special place in the world of American popular music. And the sensational Marcus King Band seem likely candidates to someday garner the praise and popularity of all of this subgenre’s successors. Chicken fried blues/rock But things are…
Read MoreAli Farka Toure
A Blues Legend from Mali? If the east African nation of Mali seems like an unlikely place for the the rich tradition of the blues to flourish, it’s probably because you haven’t heard the music of Ali Farka Toure. One quick sample of Toure’s unmistakable sound will undoubtedly persuade the uninitiated. Blues Beginnings Although international…
Read MoreIan Siegal
You could say that Ian Siegal came to the blues via an unusual path. He didn’t grow up the son of a sharecropper on a dusty farm in the Delta of Mississippi. Indeed for a man whose music is so enthusiastically fuelled by such American idioms as folk and the blues, the British-born Siegal actually…
Read MoreMarcus Bonfanti
At first glance, Marcus Bonfanti seems to embody the time-honored archetype of the British rock and roll wild man. Raggedly coifed, lazily dressed, blessed with an intense stare that could frighten away a rattlesnake. If he were a few decades older, you could believe he was the love child of Janis Joplin and John Bonham.…
Read MoreJarekus Singleton
Blues guitar iconoclast Jarekus Singleton’s is fast becoming a sensation. His name is being as highly praised as it is difficult to pronounce. As with any fresh voice on the blues scene, an exposure to his music provokes endless curiosity about the story behind the voice. And in Singleton’s case, the story is riddled with…
Read MoreKirk Fletcher
Kirk Fletcher is not the first blues guitar master whose early musical tutelage came through gospel music. But when the eight-year-old Kirk picked up his first guitar in his father’s church, he was – however unwittingly – following a time honored tradition of the blues. For many musicians growing up in the south, gospel music…
Read MoreThe Royal Southern Brotherhood
New Orleans, Louisiana is often called the birthplace of the blues. It’s a claim disputed by a few music historians. But if nothing else, the Big Easy deserves a kind word for giving birth to The Royal Southern Brotherhood. The project began in 2011 as a germ in the mind of Reuben Williams, manager to…
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