In the interest of promoting mental health awareness and empathy, music label Safe Space Records, Inc., tried rebranding the blues artists it represented as "creatives struggling with clinical depression," and blues music itself as "depressive melodi...
Braxton, Mississippi - Blues singer and guitarist Henry Johnson Jr. had more bad luck this week when his dog ran away. Johnson was recently fired by his own wife, who then dumped him and began a relationship with the man she hired to replace him. Jo...
A solitary goal by Vincent Kompany in the Manchester derby gave all three points to City tonight, who are now keeping United 'company' at the top of the table with 83 points. FOLD TRAFFORD? The noisy neighbours City completed a league double ov...
Memphis, TN - Clevis Porter Reems, a local attorney, has filed a Class Action suit against the NAACP on behalf of millions of White folks who have recently come down with the Blues. In the suit which was recently filed in Federal Court, Mr. Reems con...
Blues United For Freedom (BUFF) have approached the British government and demanded that they no longer be treated as second class citizens in the UK. "We're people too!" exclaimed BUFF's spokesperson, Papa Smurf. "We are fed up of being excluded...
A leafy west London suburb was waking up this morning to the aftermath of rioting allegedly caused by a rock legend. Mick Ralphs, formerly of Mott The Hoople and Bad Company, featured as guest guitarist with Son Maxwell's Unruly Blues when they pl...
Award winning blues pianist Pinetop Perkins has died in Texas at the grand old age of 97. Perkins' death was confirmed yesterday by his agent, Reclaimed Oak Southard , at a press conference : "I regret to confirm that my lifelong friend Pinetop...
LAS VEGAS - Romantic soul singer Darvon has announced he will voluntarily comply with an FDA request to stop performing due to serious and sometimes fatal heart rhythm abnormalities in older female members of his audiences. Darvon and the Darvocet...
Called to another Chicago work assignment in the Summer of 2002, a small group of experienced road warriors with a common love of live music, decided to take a break from the week and see what they could see on a hot Thursday evening. The only question that really remained was "where to go". A few club names were offered up including "Buddy Guy's" and "Blue Chicago" downtown, but the scruffies...
It's been attributed to post Christmas blues, bad weather, the very thought of working for months until the summer hols, the recession and lack of sunlight, but whatever the reason, what is not in dispute is that today, the 1st of February is the mos...
Although not a bad musician among them, these guys need, or needed, a name change in order to get a bigger audience: 13. Little "Red-Nosed" Johnson 12. Howie "TB Hocker" Jefferson 11. Big Harry The Pianist 10. Alex "The Booger-Woogie" Flinger 9. Barney "Stinky Ass" Baldwin 8. Henry "Happy-Go-Lucky" Sunshine 7. Al "Polar Ice Melting" Gore 6. Andy "The Root Cellar" Crackh...
Blues Man Muddy Red Sox has died at the age of 84, with a bad case of 'Mywomangonedonemewrong'. The musician, the most famous blues Spoons player in the world, famed for his hit 'A fork in the road, and a Knife in my back' was a grandfather of 4.
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Today (actually yesterday to be more precise), serious academics gathered (all neatly dressed in the usual clichéd 'tank-top and nerdy glasses' uniform) to pose the distressing and disturbing question; 'Could George Bush be the 3rd Blues...
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