As one of the world’s leading blues remixers, Charlie Beale has developed a signature style that incorporates samples of ...

The Lone Star State has long produced some of the greatest blues legends to ever pick up a guitar or stand behind a microphone. Legends like Albert Collins from Leona, Sam “Lightnin'” Hopkins from ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

It’s one of the greatest blues rock songs of all time—but it’s also got a controversial history. It’s been in countless movies, TV shows, and commercials. It’s playing in jukeboxes right now far and ...

Mud Morganfield has never felt any pressure following in the Chicago blues tradition of his famous father, Muddy Waters. The music just couldn’t be denied. Morganfield was compelled. “I tell people, I ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...