Reiter in - the final album from the legendary Chris Whitley is a raucous and beautiful blend of punk, blues, rock, and soul.

Plays the blues as though they came right out of post-war Chicago or the Mississippi delta.

Power blues featuring sizzling guitar work and down home gritty vocals.

b. 1 November 1936, Bessemer, Alabama, but raised in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Williams has made his lasting mark in the R&B industry as a recording artist, songwriter, and producer of the first doo-wop vocal groups and then soul acts. He is noted for …

Blues/rock jam band. While their sound is deeply rooted in traditional Chicago Blues, the band thrives on its live performances, which cover a wide range of styles (originals, blues, rock, funk, and reggae.)

b. Kevin Moore, 3 October 1951, Los Angeles, California, USA. Although he was born on the west coast of America, Kevin Moore's parents came from Texas and Louisiana, instilling in him an appreciation of blues and gospel. At 21, his band Zulu was hire…

One of the most influential guitar players in the history of Irish music, Rory Gallagher played an earthy, stripped-down brand of blues rock that touched everyone who heard it. Fronting a classic power trio, Gallagher effortlessly blended classic blu…

b. 25 March 1966, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Blind since developing eye cancer at the age of 12 months, Healey is a white blues-rock guitarist and singer who plays in an unusual, instinctive lap-held style. He received his first guitar at the age of t…

Get out your air guitar for these 14 new electric blues and roots rock songs buy the father and son band BUCK69. It's like Bob Seger meeting Jonny Lang in a juke joint to talk about Eric Clapton.

Unconventional, raw and experimental; combining slide guitar driven gritty delta blues with tastes of eclectic, modern rock and soul.

Peter Madcat Ruth harmonica and Shari Kane guitar vocals are a folk-blues duo based in Ann Arbor MI Ruths multi-note style appears on tracks with the Southern rock group Blackfoot among others while Kanes slide work is a descendant of her mentor and …

b. Mabel Louise Smith, 1 May 1924, Jackson, Tennessee, USA, d. 23 January 1972, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Maybelle was discovered singing in church by Memphis bandleader Dave Clark in 1935. When Clark disbanded his orchestra to concentrate on record prom…

b. William Thomas Dupree, 4 July 1910, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 21 January 1992, Hanover, Germany. Orphaned in infancy, Dupree was raised in the Colored Waifs Home for Boys until the age of 14. After leaving, he led a marginal existence, singi…

Van Morrison first came to notice as the powerful vocalist of the mid-1960s group Them ("Baby Please Don't Go," "Gloria"), and then with the solo hit "Brown-Eyed Girl." Morrison followed this success with two landmark albums, ASTRAL WEEKS and MOONDAN…

b. Michael Bernard Bloomfield, 28 July 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 15 February 1981, San Francisco, California, USA. For many, both critics and fans, Bloomfield was the finest white blues guitarist America has so far produced. Although signed to…

b. Myron Bradshaw, 23 September 1905, Youngstown, Ohio, USA, d. 26 November 1958, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. While studying psychology at Wilberforce University, Ohio, Bradshaw became involved in the campus' flourishing musical subculture. He joined Hora…

b. 3 October 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Harmonica player Branch was raised in Los Angeles, but returned to Chicago to study political science at the University of Illinois. He soon became involved in the local blues scene, playing at Queen Bee's a…

b. 18 April 1924, Vinton, Louisiana, USA (some sources give Orange, Texas, where he was raised from the age of three weeks). Brown's father was a musician who taught him to play guitar and fiddle, and during his youth he heard the music of Tampa Red,…

Robert Johnson is the most legendary of Delta blues singers, and while the facts of his real life are scarce, tall tales abound--most commonly that he sold his soul to the devil in order to master the guitar. Johnson invested his music with frighteni…

Blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy was born in Mississippi but is considered the granddaddy of the Chicago sound. One of the first rural blues musicians to merge southern country flavor with the grit of the urban north, Broonzy was an influence on gene…

b. 23 September 1939, Ozark, Alabama, USA, d. 14 August 1988. The son of a preacher, Buchanan discovered gospel music through the influence of travelling revivalists. This interest engendered his love of R&B and, having served an apprenticeship playi…

b. 17 September 1931, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA. There was a time when Chicago's Maxwell Street area was referred to by its citizens as Jewtown, and "Jewtown' Burks was one of the weekend market's most powerful performers. Finance and political cor…

One of the premier blues bands of the 1960s, Canned Heat's boogie-tinged take on the style reached a wide audience following its appearance at Woodstock. The band grew more popular after being prominently featured in the subsequent WOODSTOCK document…

With Scrapper Blackwell accompanying him on guitar, pianist Leroy Carr released a series of suave "uptown" blues records in the late '20s and early '30s that introduced many listeners to the genre. Carr and Blackwell's recordings straddled the fence …

b. Fird Eaglin, 21 January 1936, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Eaglin was left blind after a childhood illness and was given the nickname Snooks after a character in a radio series. He played guitar and sang in Baptist churches before winning a local …

"Mr. Cohen isn't the average hippie gone Wall Street, he's also a certifiably smokin' barrel house rumba boogie-woogie piano player in the James Booker/Professor Longhair/Dr. John vein."

b. 16 November 1931, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA. One of 11 children, Sumlin's mother saved hard to buy him an $8 guitar when he was a child. Renowned for his guitar work, particularly in support of his mentor Howlin' Wolf, Hubert Sumlin began his ca…