Howie Kaplan, who both owns The Howlin' Wolf club and manages the Rebirth Brass Band, introduced the group at the early show at his Warehouse District club Friday. On a night when both Howlin' Wolf ...

Two definitive blues albums, The Best of Muddy Waters and Moanin’ in the Moonlight, are each, in their own right, a powerful collection of blues songs.

Bad As Me and the new 4 cd set of Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin’ Wolf (1910-1976). It’s called Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters. The two singers, though separated by a ...

Longtime Howlin’ Wolf collaborator Hubert Sumlin still plays the low-down, dirty blues. But these days, Sumlin – who’s been plagued by serious health problems in recent years – actually feels good ...

Longtime live music venue The Howlin' Wolf remains open for business after an SUV plowed through the entrance to its main hall over the weekend, pulling down the building's exterior wall and injuring ...

A half-naked child pouts by a gray river. Purple paint covers his bare torso. Rain mats his brown hair and his eyes blink away the falling drops of rain. The only noise is wind and the rushing waters.

In this edition of Bought & Sold, Guitarist has the pleasure of Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s company, and there are few bigger electric guitar aficionados in the world. We often associate him with the Strat ...

Director Don McGlynn has been in the business of making heartfelt, low-budget documentaries of important but marginalized musicians for 20 years now. Performers such as Art Pepper, Charles Mingus and ...

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