Taxi Blues

"...This twist of fate is beyond his understanding. Taxi Blues is a visually stylish first film that layers a..."

June 7, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blues Musicians Rally to Save Singer-Guitarist Sarah Barlow’s Finger

Dec. 10 Antone’s benefit show follows serious dog attack injury

"...Austin’s blues community will turn out at Antone’s Nightclub on Dec...."

Dec. 4, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Blues on the Green Postpones Zilker Park Shows

Season pulled one day out due to latest COVID-19 wave

"...Austin institution Blues on the Green announced postponement of the rest of..."

Aug. 9, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Twisting the Blues

Rick Estrin's working on his Nightcats

"...Estrin and the Nightcats played Austin, surprising for a blues-loving town...."

April 12, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Red State Blues Moved to La Zona Rosa

Democratic concert for change happens tonight

"...Quick news about tonight's Red State Blues: A Concert for Change, the rollicking election eve concert..."

Nov. 3, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

True to the Blues: Eastside Kings Festival Returns

"It's not three chords, it's the heart and soul of a nation!" – Birdlegg

"...A millennial playing original country blues, Jontavious Willis has come on as a next-generation talent..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...The Jinx The blues is you're 43 and dead. The blues is when..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Confessin' the Blues

Soul Man W.C. Clark

"..."Blues is sufferin' music."..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Eddie Stout Is a One-Man Historical Blues Society

On the eve of his Eastside Kings Festival the Dialtone Records founder remains doggedly preservationist

"...including his role as master of ceremonies for the Blues Estafette festival in Utrecht, Holland – Stout hasn't figured..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Beacon Blues

Since 1970 at the One Knite, Jimmie Vaughan's worn the smile of a blues savior

"...clubs Marie's T Room and Alexander's, places where the blues was a life raft for listeners who sometimes could..."

July 16, 2010 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Buffalo Nichols: Beyond the Blues

Confronting harsh realities with hard truths, singer/guitarist offers an invitation to reset musical preconceptions

"...a full band backing. The songs anchor in the blues, but expand out with an ambient, almost psychedelic wash,..."

March 25, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Angela Strehli's Comeback Ace of Blues Revives Antone's Records

"At Antone's down in Texas, my friends call me the queen"

"...the gatefold sleeve to Angela Strehli's brand-new Ace of Blues, and her genre's ancient book of spells spills forth...."

Nov. 11, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

All Blues

Q&A with the signature bluesman of the Nineties, R.L. Burnside.

"...chairs, the former sharecropper instead became the Nineties' signature bluesman. His gut-piercing albums, including 1995's Too Bad Jim, 1997's..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Summertime Blues

Auditioning for the blues – at band camp!

"...themselves into the 2012 performing band of Fernando Jones' Blues Camp. Say Your Name..."

June 22, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Buried Alive in the Blues

The night Austin's Godfather of the blues granted Ed Ward a favor he'll never forget

"..."Ed, in Austin, I am the blues."..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Sultry, Aggressive, and No-Bullshit Blues by Margaret Moser

"...If Sue Foley were playing alternative rock instead of blues, the music press would be going to church over..."

June 30, 1995 Music Feature

Kingfish, Mavis Staples, Antone’s Allstars, and More Reviews From Austin Blues Festival 2025

Soul and jam sessions galore at Moody Amphitheater

"...Right as rain (pun intended), Austin Blues Festival and Austin Psych Fest braved spring showers and..."

May 2, 2025 Music Feature by The Music Team

Bill Campbell: Blues Me or Lose Me

Remembering the late, great guitarist

"...toward the end. When it’s a musical landmark like blues guitarist Bill Campbell, who passed away on September 6,..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

This Be an Empty World Without the Blues

Sometimes a sandwich – and its maker – is a hero

"...back. And it wasn't just any music. It was blues. That was all I needed to start a 32-year..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues

Texas blues couldn't hide from Sam 'Lightnin'' Hopkins

"...Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Bluesby Alan Govenar Chicago Review Press, 334 pp., $28.95..."

June 11, 2010 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Kids Love the Blues Camp

"...Dear Editor, Your article about the Blues Camp and Fernando Jones is so true [“Summertime Blues,”..."

June 26, 2012 Postmarks

Blues for Life

"...in the KUT control room, Ray is playing the blues. Last week, he emceed KUT's "homecoming dance" at the..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Blues, Funk, and La Bamba: Antone’s Austin Blues Festival Returns to Waterloo Park

Home of the Blues revives its genre mosh nearly a quarter-century later

"...John Lee Hooker himself headlined the 1st Annual Antone's Blues Festival at Waterloo Park in 1999. Los Lobos did..."

April 30, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Blues Lessons with Eve Monsees

Guitarist starts at Jimmy Reed and ends up in New Orleans

"...Man Records, so who better to ask for a blues lesson than Monsees? She says begin in the city..."

Dec. 3, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Austin Finally Gets the Delta Blues

Singing the praises of the latest ice cream flavor to swirl into town

"...not to market a flavor that they called Delta Blues in Austin, the bluesiest city in the home state..."

April 27, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Last Real Texas Blues Man

Doug Sahm drinks from the jazz wellspring

"...the jazz tradition has always had a strong, indelible blues sensibility; as such, jazz and rhythm & blues have..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Redd, Write, and Blues

Interview With Louise Redd

"...childhood abuse who has an affair with an African-American blues musician, spends a weekend in the Harris County jail..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Bastards Not Blues

"...and I have all their records. Nothing against the blues, but they are not in any way "blues-rock" (as..."

June 15, 2015 Postmarks

ACL Interview: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

7:30pm, Zilker Tent stage

"...didn't play at all," says Jon Spencer, explaining his Blues Explosion's recently broken absence. "But it's been eight years..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

ACL Interview: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Part Two

Friday, Oct. 11, 7:30pm, Zilker Tent stage

"...out of nowhere, Meat & Bone, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's first disc in eight years. Their ACL tent..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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