WORLD PREMIERE: Tweed Funk’s “Fine Wine” Music Video
Tweet American Blues Scene is proud to officially premier Tweed Funk’s debut music video, “Fine Wine”, from the hit album Love Is. The song has already garnered critical acclaim and airplay around the...
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Blues Tools – Keys to the Blues with Kevin Anker
Tweet Kevin Anker plays the blues with soul. Though you may not have heard his name yet, that’s changing. After honing his craft in his home state of Indiana for many years, Kevin Anker now finds...
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Blues Foundation Announces 2013 Blues Music Award Nominees
Tweet The 2013 Blues Music Awards nominations have just been announced!! The complete list of nominees is below. The 34th Blues Music Awards will be held on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Hall of Fame...
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WORLD PREMIERE: Ana Popovic’s “Can You Stand The Heat”
Tweet Ana Popovic Band Prepare your ears! The first track off of Ana Popovic’s upcoming album, due out in April, is here! Ana has apparently settled quite comfortably into her new Memphis digs,...
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Lucky Peterson Band “Live At The 55 Arts Club Berlin”
Tweet Lucky Peterson is definitely a student of the blues. Since Willie Dixon took him under his wing at a very young age, Peterson has been immersed in blues. He has studied and lived it. With the...
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How Did We Miss This? It’s A “Good Thang”
Tweet Sometimes, things just get missed in all the hustle and bustle of the day-to-day. American Blues Scene came across The Soul of John Black – Good Thang recently, and are we glad. This album is...
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Boz Scaggs’“Memphis” Has Soul
Tweet Boz Scaggs has been around for while, and he is no stranger to blues, rock, or soul. Most folks will remember his hits from the album Silk Degrees in the 1970s. There is so much more to this...
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Beth Hart Thanks You for Your Company
Tweet Beth Hart (Photo by Jeff Katz) It sounds selfish to say, but honestly I so much want people to have a reaction – a beautiful reaction – so that I don’t feel alone, you know? I’ve been through my...
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Travis Colby Band’s “Quick Fix” Is The Right Stuff
Tweet Travis Colby is no stranger to blues. Having been a member of Room Full Of Blues for eight years, he knows what good blues is. He spent six years touring and recording with Grammy Award winner...
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Dana Fuchs, the Force of Nature
Tweet Dana Fuchs at JazzBones in Tacoma, Washington (Photo: Carolyn Frye) Yes, it is the Janis Joplin comparison that is hung around singers’ necks like the chains wrapped about Jacob Marley’s ghost....
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Bluesweek 2013 Features BBQ, Bands & Blues Legend Mavis Staples Memorial Day...
Tweet Mavis Staples will be performing at the Saint Louis Bluesweek Festival 2013 (SAINT LOUIS, MO) Organizers today announced details of the Bluesweek Festival, the region’s premiere Blues...
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Orlando’s Blues B-Q Is A Hit!
Tweet Orlando, FL – On Saturday, March 9th, 2013, the City of Orlando held its 7th annual Blues B-Q concert. The concert, sponsored by several local businesses, was free and open to the public...
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B.B. King to Launch Line of Signature Wines in the US
Tweet BB King Signature Wine (HAMDEN, CT) Blues music legend B.B. King, in collaboration with Votto Vines Importing, is proud to release a new line of signature wines bearing his name across the...
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BREAKING: Jimmy Dawkins, Famous for “West Side” Chicago Sound, Passes Away
Tweet Jimmy Dawkins, Photo by Joe Rosen Jimmy Dawkins, the Chicago Blues guitarist and singer famous for being an integral part of the “West Side” Chicago sound, has passed away. Delmark Records, the...
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George Jackson Dies: Rock & Soul Songwriter Passes Away
Tweet George Jackson JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of “Old Time Rock and Roll” and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68. Jackson...
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3rd Annual Stomp The Blues Out of Homelessness Blues Festival
Tweet Stomp the Blues out of Homelessness Festival (SPRINGFIELD, MO) The Stomp The Blues Out of Homelessness Festival has announced their much-anticipated lineup for the non-for-profit festival’s...
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Memphis Soul In Performance At The White House
Tweet Barack Obama looks on to the Memphis Soul taping of In Performance at the White House with Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, and Joshua Ledet There is no doubt — in fact the prove is irrefutable,...
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Albert King to be Inducted to Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Tonight
Tweet Albert King The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame is officially inducting the 2013 group tonight, (which will air on HBO in one month). This year will see the induction of influential bluesman Albert...
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Scenes From The 2013 Tampa Bay Blues Festival
Tweet Tab Benoit at Tampa Bay Blues Fest (Photo by Barry Kerzner) Over the course of nineteen years, the Tampa Bay Blues Festival has become one of the premier blues festivals in the nation. People...
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Six Hour Stax/Volt Marathon from Memphis this Saturday
Tweet Stax Records, Memphis, Tennessee This Saturday, April 27th, the Hartford radio station WRTC FM will present Soulsville 2013, a six-hour tribute to the great recordings and musicians of the...
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