The 1970s gave us some of the greatest blues-rock music ever recorded, but not every masterpiece got the attention it ...

The sound of an electric guitar riff, perfectly simple yet seismically powerful, signifies the return of rock’s most enduring ...

“You can’t get any deeper into the blues than Chester Burnett. I got to see him a dozen times when I was growing up in Ottawa, Canada, and Evil showcases his voice beautifully. It’s a haunting, ...

Hoyt Axton contributed some of the most iconic songs of the mid-20th century, in addition to being a prolific recording artist and actor.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Shemekia Copeland has a distinctive voice. The Washington Post called her, “the greatest blues singer of her generation,” and the Chicago Tribune called her, “the greatest blues vocalist working today ...