The Blues: The Radio Series
Beginning in September, Public Radio International will distribute a 13 part documentary entitled
"The Blues" to radio stations around the country...
Sweet Home Chicago Exhibit Photos
Take a look at Experience Music Project's (EMP) newest exhibit: Sweet Home Chicago: Big City Blues 1946-1966. The exhibit opened in Seattle at EMP on September 27, 2003, and ran through January 2004. Sweet Home Chicago will open at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry on February 1st 2004 to kick-off the Museum's annual Black Creativity celebration.
Year of the Blues Art Gallery
The Year of the Blues online gallery features the work of visual artists inspired by the sounds and history of the blues. Gallery selections are chosen by members of the Year of the Blues advisory board.
Current gallery: Sharon McConnell's Livecast:Blues »
Salute to the Blues Photo Gallery
Renowned artists across multiple music genres and generations took to the stage at Radio City Music Hall on February 7, 2003, to celebrate their common heritage and passion —– the blues.
Sweet Home Chicago: Big City Blues 1946-1966
In celebration of the Year of the Blues 2003, Experience Music Project (EMP) proudly announces its newest exhibit: Sweet Home Chicago: Big City Blues 1946-1966.
Excello Records and the Swamp Blues
In the 1950s, independent labels were capitalizing on the demand for records with regional appeal. A Nashville-based label, Excello, would become synonymous with swamp blues...
2003 W.C. Handy Blues Awards Weekend
(Feature Article)
Named for the "Father of the Blues," The W.C. Handy Blues Awards are produced by Year of the Blues partner the Blues Foundation, a Memphis-based non-profit organization established to "Preserve, Celebrate and Support" the blues.
The British Blues
With their records the backbone of countless radio station playlists, and many continuing to tour around the world, it's difficult to imagine a time when the world of rock and roll did not include British artists such as The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton...
A Once-in-a-Lifetime Lineup Salutes the Blues
Renowned artists across multiple music genres and generations took to the stage at Radio City Music Hall on February 7, 2003, to celebrate their common heritage and passion —– the blues.
Memphis: A Century of the Blues
Just south of Memphis, Tennessee, a swath of flat land extends for 200 miles along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. Layered with several thousand years of fertile silt from the Great River’s meandering and flooding, it is known as “the Delta”...
Clarksdale: Delta Blues Past and Present
Apart from Memphis, it would be difficult to name a city that has been as central to the Delta blues as Clarksdale, Mississippi...
The Piedmont Blues: Alive and Well in D.C.
If a stark Delta blues hits you like a ton of bricks, then a lilting Piedmont tune dances buoyantly along. Named for the area of Virginia and the Carolinas where it originated around the turn of the last century...
Q&A with Peter Guralnick
Peter Guralnick has written extensively about American music and musicians. As a Year of the Blues Advisor, he spoke with Robert Santelli about the state of the blues today, his current projects and future plans.
Don Robey and Duke-Peacock Records
Texas blues has had more than its share of guitar heroes, but it also has a smooth side that owes a great deal to traditional gospel and Memphis R&B. Under the guidance— or iron fist, depending on your point of view—of Houston businessman Don Robey...
Celebrating the Year of the Blues
Rarely has there been a year with so much celebratory potential for the music, its culture, and its century-old, living history...
