As a starting point we might consider the essential musical structure of most of the music we call the Blues. In its basic form it has a three chord structure in a 1, 4, 5 progression. It usually ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

We all know it’s reality, and that’s what the song is.” Eric Jerardi doesn’t like being called a blues guy; he’s a blues rock guy. And while his style has changed over the 35 years in ...