A former blues-guitar wunderkind who has five albums that charted in the Top 50 of Billboard is coming to ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, it has been announced. Also coming is a swamp-blues rocker ...

Louisiana-based guitarist and harpist Leslie Johnson got the nickname “Lazy Lester” in 1957, ostensibly because Excello Records producer Jay Miller thought it suited Johnson’s relaxed style, ...

Lazy Lester, a singer, harmonica player and guitarist from Louisiana whose country- and Cajun-tinged sound made him an architect of the style known as swamp blues, died Wednesday at his home in ...

The blues will meet education Sunday when the San Antonio Blues Society stages its seventh annual Fiesta Blues Heritage Series in the Lone Star Pavilion at Sunset Station. Swamp-blues guitar slinger ...

Louisiana-born guitarist, Chris Thomas King grew up immersed in the blues from a very early age when he would frequent his father’s club, Tabby’s Blues Box. He honed his skills performing with the ...

Friday, Jimmy Thackery is at Black-eyed Sally's. Thackery has been a festival headliner and has jammed for hours in many of the blues bars across the nation that keep the music alive. You can expect ...

No need to wonder what kind of music the roots-based Selwyn Birchwood plays. He describes it for us as “Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues.” That distinctive gumbo continues on this, his fourth album for ...

Taranaki rockers Courtnay & The Unholy Reverie are ready to lift the roof off Aucklands Ding Dong Lounge next Friday 6th December, when they team up with local rock bands Silcrow and Skitch Hiker.

Swamp-blues guitar slinger Tab Benoit is set to headline an electric guitar-powered bill that'll include Catherine Denise, Sol Driven Train and Granvil Poynter. The gathering also will feature the ...