Guitar Blues News

 
Book Review: When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG Along with BB King, guitar-slinger Buddy Guy is one of the last of a dying breed. True, there is no shortage of great, younger blues performers out there now. True, Guy didn't enjoy the same high-flying profile as some of his contemporaries.

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Rory Block brings the blues to Beaver Creek
Vail Daily News
Rory Block was 14-years-old when she got the blues. It was 1964 when she stumbled upon guitarist Stefan Grossman playing ragtime guitar in New York's City Washington Square Park and it was all over. “(Stefan) gave me a record called 'Really The Country ...


 
Chris Aaron: Playing more than just the blues
Green Bay Press Gazette
Guitarist and songwriter Chris Aaron leads a jam session with area musicians from 8 pm to midnight Wednesday at Poh's Corner Pub, 164 N. Third Ave., Sturgeon Bay. There is no cover for ages 21 and older only. For more information, call (920) 743-3933.

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Washington Times
BOOK REVIEW: 'When I Left Home'
Washington Times
And he owns a Chicago blues club. But almost all of these awards and accolades came to the blues guitarist and singer after he was 55 years old. For decades he was admired by his colleagues and revered by English rockers like the Rolling Stones and ...


 
Mississippi Valley Blues Festival June 29-July 1
Jazz-Quad
Blues Music Award nominee and Roomful of Blues alumnus Sugar Ray Norcia on harmonica leads his band the Bluetones next on the Bandshell, followed by Baton Rouge's award-winning guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Kenny Neal. Over in the Tent, ...
Two dozen acts set for blues festivalQuad City Times

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Bar Harbor Times
Juke Rockets named state's best blues
Bar Harbor Times
By Tanya Mitchell | May 25, 2012 Source: Contributed photo The Juke Rockets Blues Band, are, from left, drummer and vocalist Tim Woitowitz, vocalist Carlene Thornton, Bob Strusz on guitar and vocals and Steve Mellor on bass and vocals.

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Exclusive: Frank Marino legendary guitarist sidelined with severe pain
Examiner.com
His cover tunes were commercially successful (“Roadhouse Blues” The Doors, “All Along the Watchtower,” “Purple Haze” Jimi Hendrix) but Marino was never pleased about his original material receiving virtually no airplay on FM radio.