On Thursday, June 20, I had the good fortune to see Christone Kingfish Ingram and opening act Mathias Lattin at TempleLive in Cleveland,...

No exaggeration: Memphis is magical. There’s much to appreciate about blues music and anyone who is right here, right now reading this...

“It’s all good” is a pretty popular phrase these days. It can be said as a closing or as closure and also as reassurance, among other...

It’s a run-of-the-mill Monday with plenty to do and to think about but as I sit here down at my bar listening to my Pierce Dipner CD,...

Well, last weekend I had the very good fortune to photograph the Pittsburgh Blues & Roots Festival once again and had a great time doing...

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I didn't have a camera in 1992 but ohhhh, how I wish I did! On a crisp spring evening that year, I took a ride up to the Richfield...

Admittedly, I just wanted to use as many acronyms as possible in the title. Anyhow, on Saturday, April 30, we had the good fortune to...

Time sure is a slippery little bugger; I can't believe it has been two and a half decades since I rushed to Best Buy for Kenny Wayne...

I'm reasonably certain that Aristotle wasn't referring to a rockin' blues double bill with that phrase but I am DEFINITELY referring to a...

Summer of 1999 was a very good season. I was teaching high school and didn’t have kids yet so I was long on time and short on obligations...

March seems reluctant to let go of winter. Snowflakes made yet another unwelcome appearance today, blankets remain at the ready inside, a...

“Let’s go back, let’s go way back, let’s go way on way back when…” as Aretha Franklin said in her unforgettable 1968 hit, “Think.” That...

November 27, 2021 wasn't as bad as November 20, 2021, but it was a bad day. It was one week since a heartbreaking loss, two days after...

I have had the good fortune to have seen and have photographed Samantha Fish a few times over the past 5 years or so; Canton Blues Fest...

According to Stevie Ray Vaughn's Texas Flood, it's flooding down in Texas, as any blues rock fan well knows; however, his big brother...

I have a lot--A LOT!--of pictures of my favorite blues rocker, Joe Bonamassa. I've been to over 100 Joe shows--small, medium, and large...

In keeping with the state slogan, The Heritage Music Blues Fest in Wheeling, WV, was quite a wild and wonderful experience. When we were...

Different area codes are just the tip of the contrast iceberg between the worlds of northern Mississippi and northeastern Ohio but last...

At a casual glance, this was a blues fest worth buying a ticket for and traveling to. It was on the beautiful rolling green grounds of...