Subject: B.B. King

• Johnny Lang, Album Leaf, Jujuba -- ASD's Live Music Picks, June 30

  June 30, 2007

• Ticket to Margaritaville? It'll Cost Ya

  October 16, 2007

• Bye Bye Blues Fest?

  Scott AllenHe's No B.B. King: Tommy Cast As the Merc's Jim Harrington reported yesterday, not has only the 2009 SF Blues Festival has been canceled, but "that cancellation could turn out to be permanent." Harrington quotes event organizer Tom Mazzolini as saying, ""we may well have seen the last San Francisco Blues Festival," which certainly sounds like a death knell for the venerable American genre, at least as far as San Francisco's once-popular festival is concerned. SFist also has a

  February 19, 2009

• Bobby Badfingers' snappy jailhouse comeback

  April 8, 2009

• A guide to the best of this year's S.F. International Film Festival

  April 22, 2009

• Thrill Not Gone After All

  October 10, 2007

• Six-string giant Buddy Guy delivers sublime blues

  September 5, 2007

• The Blue Man's Group

  August 15, 2007

• Christmas for in-betweeners at the Black Magic Voodoo Lounge

  December 21, 2005

• Hawaii Oh No

  The Hawaii West fails as a dive bar, but Bouncer still figures out what makes Gavin Newsom cool

  March 16, 2005

• Reps Etc.

  February 2, 2005

• Next Best Thing

  If you weren't at this landmark blues concert, Lightning in a Bottle will do

  November 17, 2004

• Four Best Outdoor Festivals

  May 19, 2004

• Blue Year's Eve

  Reaves-Phillips breaks it down

  December 31, 2003

• Summer Events a Go Go!

  What to do, all summer long

  June 25, 2003

• The Freeloaders' Handbook

  If you ask, they will give. Really.

  June 11, 2003

• Best Jukebox

  The Ha-Ra

  May 14, 2003

• Boogie for a New Millennium

  Zakiya Hooker preserves the legacy of her father, blues legend John Lee Hooker, plans her own musical career -- and tries to keep tradition from suffocating both

  April 23, 2003

• GIFTS

  DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

  November 20, 2002

• Ace of Bass

  For over two decades, Lisle Ellis has been expanding the vocabulary of the jazz bassist by adding blues and classical features

  October 30, 2002

• Dancing With the Butoh Masters

  From their odd sushi bar on a seedy corner of the Mission, world-famous dancers Hiroko and Koichi Tamano try to preserve a bizarre, mysterious art

  July 17, 2002

• Music

  June 19, 2002

• Dim Sum Diva

  Why is R&B veteran Patti Austin making her comeback singing in Mandarin?

  May 22, 2002

• Pimps and Players

  Fillmore Slim has lived a life of picking, pimping, and prison -- now he just wants to play the blues

  August 8, 2001

• Hear This

  July 11, 2001

• Five Best Places to Celebrate the Sunset

  May 23, 2001

• Carnival of Sorts

  February 21, 2001

• Boubacar Traore

  Macire (Indigo)

  October 11, 2000

• House Of Tudor

  Zmrzlina, Little Jimmy Scott, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff

  December 15, 1999

• Back Door Memories

  September 15, 1999

• Night & Day

  June 30, 1999

• Into the Maelstrom

  June 23, 1999

• Hear This

  May 26, 1999

• Bluesman's Blues

  Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

  April 21, 1999

• Another Crossroads

  Former Sister Double Happiness frontman Gary Floyd re-confronts his (and America's) musical roots

  March 3, 1999

• Still Giving It Up

  Delbert McClinton has something better than a record deal a sound all his own

  November 18, 1998

• Night + Day

  August 26, 1998

• Riff Raff

  September 3, 1997

• Recordings

  March 26, 1997

• The Man Who Would Be Ali

  February 12, 1997

• Summer of Salvation

  May 20, 2009

• Documenting an epic concert in Zaire, Soul Power puts on quite a show

  July 15, 2009

• Soul Power

  October 7, 2009