Muddy Waters

Texas spitter Scarface Tells SF Weekly His Top '07 Albums

White-boy blues

The life and times of Preacher Boy and the Natural Blues

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 ... More >>

Blues Explosion

The rough-and-tumble blues of R.L. Burnside

Night+Day

The rough-and-tumble blues of R.L. Burnside

Spinning Blues Into Lies

Cadillac Records can't handle the truth.

Hillstomp defines the down ‘n’ dirty gutbucket blues

Cadillac Records can't handle the truth.

ZZ Top Returns for Your "Tush"

Cadillac Records can't handle the truth.

Charlie Musselwhite Spent the Summer of Love with the Blues

The Harmonica Honcho

Love Was Here and Now You're Gone

Arthur Lee 1945-2006

I, Shit

You and me and the Bravery, sitting around, full of it

Reps Etc.

You and me and the Bravery, sitting around, full of it

Next Best Thing

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

What Came Before

Music and dance older than Jim Crow

Myles Boisen

Past-Present-Future

John Hammond

Ready for Love

Holiday Highlights 2001

Holiday Event Lisitngs

Hear This

Guitarist Vince Converse rocks the blues with sassy wah-wah and other effects.

Best Block for a Culinary Tour of the World

Valencia Between 16th and 17th Streets

Cray in the Bay

The Robert Cray Band at the S.F. Jazz Festival

Boubacar Traore

Macire (Indigo)

Hear This

Olu Dara

Riff Raff

Jukebox Hero and Gordon Dorsey

Back Door Memories

Tom Mazzolini speaks proudly of his San Francisco Blues Festival. But each musician is proud for a different reason.

House Of Tudor

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

The House of Tudor

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

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.

Another Crossroads

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

Reviews

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

Night +Day

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

Melding Pot

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

Bay Bayou

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

Night+Day

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

Letters

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

Slap Shots

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

Stalemate

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

Recordings

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

"Dealing Real"

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

Wammies 1996

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

SF Weekly Picks

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

SF Weekly Picks

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

Suspicious Minds

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

SF Weekly Picks

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

Down by Law

Tom Waits raises dough for pal Don Hyde's defense

Opiate for the Masses

Morphine's moody, sax-flavored sound plays like the soundtrack to a dime-store novel

New Alan Lomax box set captures old Haiti with fresh ears

Morphine's moody, sax-flavored sound plays like the soundtrack to a dime-store novel

The 10 Worst Answers to 'What Kind of Music Do You Listen To?"

BrokeNCYDE: All your fears about the younger generation, realized.​It's a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible question. And a necessary one. Why necessary? Hell, we need some way to talk about the stuff. And it's terrible, obviously, because there's no successful way to answer it ... More >>

Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt in Marin: Jokes, Tunes, and the Dead Girl in Hiatt's Trunk

​Lyle LovettJohn HiattJune 9, 2011@ Marin CenterBetter Than: Almost any other concert featuring middle-aged white guys singing the blues.In some ways, Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt are an odd couple. Lovett sings with a wry throaty croak, whereas Hiatt favors passionate, lung-bursting howls. Hiatt wr ... More >>

Ralph Carney Gets (Moderately) Serious with The Serious Jass Project

​If any rock performer can double as a character in a James Joyce novel, it's Ralph Carney. A multi-instrumentalist best known as reedman for Tom Waits and a host of others, the S.F.-based Carney plays the way he talks: expansive, eccentric, and endlessly discursive. As a member of Tin Huey, he wa ... More >>