Blues Music

Henry Butler

Q&A: Bettye LaVette on Thankful N' Thoughtful and Losing a Grammy to Eric Clapton

By Katherine Turman It's only taken Bettye LaVette 50 years to become an overnight success. Yet at 66, the saucy soul singer still laments, "That was my biggest grievance--I just want somebody to say my damn name. Even if you say something bad, just say my name." Since her first single in 1962- ... More >>

Live: George Thorogood Lights Up B.B. King's

George Thorogood & The Destroyers w/Tom Hambridge & The Rattlesnakes B.B. King Blues Club Wednesday, August 8 Better than: Jack White. The last time I was at B.B. King Blues Club in Times Square (right next to the Sanrio store, across from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum), I saw Napalm Death. From the ... More >>

Live: Neko Case Serenades The Sunset At The World Financial Center

Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival w/Neko Case, Charles Bradley He's My Brother, She's My Sister World Financial Center Thursday, July 12 Better than: Happy hour inside. Last night Neko Case, singer-songwriter and sometimes New Pornographer, headlined the second night of the Lowdown Hudson Blues Festi ... More >>

Gary Lucas+Frank London's Kali Krewe+Institutional Prostitution

'Howlin' for Hubert'

Etta James, R.I.P.

​Etta James used to tell a story about meeting Billie Holiday in which Holiday told her—fatherless wild child to fatherless wild child—not to let the bad men and drugs that were going to come her way destroy her. Something about that brief conversation must've stuck, because despit ... More >>

Gary Lucas

Bo Diddley's Son Arrested for Occupying Bo Diddley Community Plaza

​Ellas Anthony McDaniel, the son of legendary rhythm and blues artist Bo Diddley, was arrested Friday morning in a park named after his father while participating in the Gainesville, Florida offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests. The Independent Florida Alligator reports four protesters, ... More >>

Live: Boubacar Traore Brings His Brand Of The Blues To Brooklyn

Antoine Pratt​ Boubacar Traore w/Zongo Junction The Bell House Tuesday, September 27 Better than: Eric Clapton's probably inevitable African blues record. Sly Stone offers one possible method for dealing with celebrity: get famous, sell your royalties and squander your money, drop out of sig ... More >>

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Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks

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Frank Fairfield & Blind Boy Paxton

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Download: Bo Diddley, 1928-2008

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Too much depression, not enough transcendence on another Cat Power covers album

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2006 Jazz Supplement Listings

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Finally complete and unexpurgated, jazz's first composer and blowhard tells how it was done

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Parallel folkies grapple with the times in a mythic Greenwich Village wonderland

Film

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