Blues Music

'11th Annual A Great Night in Harlem'

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 >>

Laura Gibson

​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

​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 >>

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 >>

Keb' Mo'

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 >>

Todd Rundgren

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 >>

Blind Boys of Alabama

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 >>

Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks

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 >>

Local Natives

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 >>

Thieving Irons

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 >>

Vieux Farka Toure

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 >>

Vieux Farka Touré

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 >>

Black Keys+the Morning Benders

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 >>

Frank Fairfield & Blind Boy Paxton

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 >>

THE THRILL AIN'T GONE

James Cotton wails at Lincoln Center

Who Do You Love? Goes from Awful to Insufferable

Cadillac Records has been here, done it better

Guitar Shorty

Cadillac Records has been here, done it better

Ghost Brand: Dee Dee Bridgewater and Stephanie Nakasian Tackle Billie Holiday

Cadillac Records has been here, done it better

The Word

Cadillac Records has been here, done it better

Assembly of Dust

Cadillac Records has been here, done it better

Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina

Cadillac Records has been here, done it better

Tom Jones

Cadillac Records has been here, done it better

Rise of the Anachronauts

On Dan Hicks, Leonard Cohen, Etta James, and other fearless time travelers

Download: Bo Diddley, 1928-2008

On Dan Hicks, Leonard Cohen, Etta James, and other fearless time travelers

Yawned in Bars

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

Katori Hall's Hoodoo Love

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

2006 Jazz Supplement Listings

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

New Wonderland

Accidental teenthrob counts himself a man in his new wonderland

Music

Accidental teenthrob counts himself a man in his new wonderland

Oh Didn't He Ramble

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

Bobby and Dave

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

Film

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

Rumba With a View

Your African roots are showing: Cracking the code of Cuban music—in four easy pieces

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Your African roots are showing: Cracking the code of Cuban music—in four easy pieces

Beware the Real Low-Rent Puke-and-Boogie Blues, Buster

Your African roots are showing: Cracking the code of Cuban music—in four easy pieces

Music

Your African roots are showing: Cracking the code of Cuban music—in four easy pieces

Crossroad to Ruin

Your African roots are showing: Cracking the code of Cuban music—in four easy pieces

Nothing Major

Your African roots are showing: Cracking the code of Cuban music—in four easy pieces

Born Under a Bad Sign

Blues You Can Use Before History Uses You

Touring the Jazz Museum

JVC 2000 Looks Backward

Everybody's Arranger

Ralph Burns—From Woody Herman to Ray Charles to Bob Fosse

What Becomes a Legend Most

Ralph Burns—From Woody Herman to Ray Charles to Bob Fosse

Let's Get Busy in Hawaiian

100 Years of Ragged Beats and Cheap Tunes

Mister Satan's Apprentice

100 Years of Ragged Beats and Cheap Tunes

Consumer Guide

100 Years of Ragged Beats and Cheap Tunes

Beale Street Talks

100 Years of Ragged Beats and Cheap Tunes