Todd Albright did his research at the local library in his teen years, but not by taking out books — he checked out reissued blues records and was fascinated by what he heard in the grooves of those ...

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Master Player and Teacher, Paul Rishell Releases Interactive Video Software for Learning Country Blues Guitar Just released! Featuring 16 songs taught and performed in 40 video segments with notation, ...

Learn the roots of the blues with Paul Rishell, one of today’s most respected country blues artists and a W.C. Handy Award winner. His workshop, Country Blues Guitar: The Basics and Beyond, offered ...

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 ...

The Rev. Peyton confesses that he doesn’t have much of an imagination. Even his name, he can’t claim to have come up with it himself: “That’s what everybody calls me,” said the Rev. Peyton. “Some ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

Tom Winslow, a Capital Region folk and country-blues musician who wrote a fundraising anthem for the sloop Clearwater and regularly performed at Caffe Lena, died Oct. 23 of complications from a stroke ...