Stephen Stills is one of rock music’s most enduring figures with a career now spanning six decades, multiple solo works, and four hugely influential groups – Manassas, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN), and Read more…
Photo by Amplified: Chicago Blues “AMPLIFIED: CHICAGO BLUES” April 8-Aug. 10, 2019 | Chicago History Museum In advance of next year’s opening of the Chicago Blues Experience, an entire museum dedicated to the blues, the Read more…
The past year has been a whirlwind for Rhiannon Giddens, the Grammy-winning musician who became the first woman and first nonwhite person to win a major prize for excellence on the banjo and then celebrated Read more…
By Elon Green The last eight months—roughly the amount of time since Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration—haven’t smothered Mavis Staples’s irrepressible optimism, but it’s been palpably tempered. She faced dark days even before the election in Read more…
Chicago took a major step to preserving its blues history. The Chicago Blues Experience is moving to the city’s Loop. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter tells us when it will open its doors. Source: Chicago Blues Read more…
Sona Wang, 58, began her venture-capital career at Allstate Venture Capital, then went on to found three independent VC firms. When the last one, Ceres, began winding down five years ago, she and a group of partners created Chicago Read more…
“The sound and style of Chicago blues was built by artists such as singer and guitarist John Primer, who migrated to Chicago in 1963 at the age of 18. Primer and the Real Deal Blues Band Read more…
“…Co-founders Bill Selonick and John Boncimino, of the upcoming Chicago Blues Experience Museum, slated for a downtown location at 25 E. Washington, talk about their five-plus year long process of creating an immersive music museum Read more…
“Guy, who will return Wednesday to the Asbury Park Press Stage at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, is routinely near the top of Rolling Stone magazine’s ‘100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time’ list Read more…
“Mick Jagger makes a guest appearance on a new version of the Rolling Stones’ ‘Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker),’ from their 1973 album Goats Head Soup, by blues giant and longtime Stones ally Buddy Guy. The Read more…