Blues Music

The 10 Greatest Dallas Blues Artists

The Lone Star State has long produced some of the greatest blues legends to ever pick up a guitar or stand behind a microphone. Legends like Albert Collins from Leona, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins from Centerville and Johnny Winter from Beaumont all have found the blues in Texas. Hell, we even have a Gra ... More >>

The 10 Texas Blues Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Watching the Devil tune his guitar in the middle of the night isn't how Robert (or Tommy) Johnson imagined he'd be spending his Saturday night. When that ol' demon started playing songs, fire flew from his fingertips as an otherworldly sound reverberated into the night. According to legend, despite ... More >>

Eric Clapton at American Airlines Center, 3/19/13: Review

Last night, Eric Clapton and Dallas-born guitarist Doyle Bramhall II set fire to their Stratocasters' fretboards. Their fingers slid across the neck, bending strings until they bled the blues. Feeding off a musical energy straight from the Crossroads, the talented guitarists empowered some of Clapto ... More >>

The Virgin Wolves: "Led Zeppelin Is The Greatest Rock Band Of All Time"

The Virgin Wolves recently took time out to discuss their backgrounds with the blues, their first shows, and The Song Remains the Same. Catch them Friday at Andy's Bar and Saturday at City Tavern. Which came first for you: hearing a blues pioneer play the blues, or a band interpreting the blues? C ... More >>

KNON's Don O. Knows The Dallas Blues

Don O. has been spinning blues records on KNON since 1983, literally about a month after they went on the air. See, he was a listener of the pre-KNON station at that frequency, KCHU, from '75 until they were switched off in '77. Heartbroken at the station's demise and subsequent absence of blues on ... More >>

The Top Ten North Texas Blues Albums

See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #100-80 See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #79-60 Alex Moore, Alex Moore Barrelhouse pianist "Whistling" Alex Moore spent all of his life in Dallas, recording for Columbia in 1929, Decca in 1937, and RPM/Kent in 1951. During the '60s blues reviv ... More >>

Anders Osborne Lives the Blues in Order To Play the Blues

​For nearly three decades, singer/guitarist Anders Osborne has called The Big Easy home and the city's musical heritage has had a profound impact on Osborne's music. Funky and inventive, his blues are inspired by both John Lee Hooker and Doctor John, full of impressive solos and carefree spiri ... More >>

Knon's Bluesfest

Saturday, January 28, and Sunday, January 29, at Poor David's Pub

Hidden Away: Uncovering Dallas' Faded Blues

Blues veteran Jim Suhler takes us on a tour of the city's musical past.

Over the Weekend: Buddy Guy at the Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival

Buddy Guy, Buddy Whittington, Jim Suhler, The Rick Kelly Band, othersBedford Blues & BBQ FestivalSeptember 4, 2011 Better than: sitting outside and soaking in the blues when the summer hasn't ended. Buddy GuyAs a stiff breeze blew the last remnants of excessive heat from the area, legendary blue ... More >>

Quaker City Night Hawks

Torquila Torquila! "Self-released"

Tour Celebrating Robert Johnson's 100th Birthday To Come To Dallas In Early February

Robert Johnson​It's kind of tough to wrap your head around the fact that, next year, legendary bluesman Robert Johnson would have turned 100 years old. Given the gravitas that surrounds his mystique, you'd think he'd be older, no? Sure enough, though: May 8, 1911 was his birthday. And, to celebrat ... More >>

Jimmie Vaughan's Got No Blues At All

Doyle Bramhall, Bugs Henderson

Saturday, March 6,at the Granada Theater

Cadillac Records Gets Nothing Right, Especially the Facts About Chess Records

The Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Blues Men Took To Dallas

Pops Carter and the Funkmonsters

Friday, October 10, at the Boiler Room, Denton

Friends Of Freddie

Celebrate the King of Big D blues

Video: Hash Brown on Dallas Blues History

Stop the Wedding

Head down to see Etta instead

John Lee Hooker

Hooker (Shout Factory)

Blues for Sam Myers

So Blue

These musicians have the blues, but they're happy to be here

Walking the Line

More music biopics? Good. Bad musicians starring in them? Not so much.

Blue Christmas

Year-end releases prove that down-and-out is still alive and well

Walker, Texas Ranger

From Dallas came the man who first plugged blues into an amp--and into popular culture

Buddy Guy

Friday, September 23, at Billy Bob's

Fat Boys

An elderly gang of seedy Mississippi bluesmen anchors Fat Possum Records and the label's documentary

Buddy Guy

Blues Singer (Silvertone)

Go the Distance

Centro-matic's Will Johnson chases the ghosts of Mississippi

Dirty South

For the North Mississippi Allstars, the blues ain't nothing but dance music

Jimi Hendrix

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

A mother of a father

Bo Diddley created rock and roll -- now, where's his check?

Seeing it through

Blind Lemon Jefferson musical (or is it?) finally opens its eyes

Little boy blues

Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

Blues in '97

What's tops in Texas (and elsewhere)

Jukin' with the Reverend

The improbable rise of blues rulebreaker Robert Ealey

Going against typecasting

Don't call Carolyn Wonderland and the Imperial Monkeys a blues band

Keeping up with the Joneses

Dallas blues history according to two who lived it

House of David

Fathead comes home

The good fight

Keb' Mo' makes the fat ladies get up and dance

The maitre d' of R&B

Elvis T. Busboy drives his soul train into the future

Electric blue

Jim Suhler talks about life and the local bluesman

Fire and fury

Blues hero Sam Myers is the Rocket in the pocket

Blues exchange

Texas Blues Cafe brings more than brisket to the 'burbs

Lonely Hunter

After a self-imposed exile in Mexico and obscurity, a Texas bluesman comes home

Unsung diva

R&B great Etta James ponders the fame that got away

Roadshows

Good rockin' last night

Dallas' forgotten Star Talent Records label got there before Sun's rise

Trouble blues

Buddy Guy doesn't want money or fame, just a little respect