Blues & Roots

Charles Neville at the Community Music School of Springfield, November 16, 2014 Charles Neville died on Wednesday, April 25, aged 79, at his home in Huntington, Massachusetts. He’d been ill for...

Today marks the centennial of Charlie Parker’s birth. Born August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Parker died at the 5th Avenue home of Pannonica de Koenigswarter,...

The news last week that Bob Dylan was being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature signaled another level of recognition, maybe the ultimate, in the ongoing acceptance of rock’n’roll as an art form. Between...

In Memory of Boston’s Blues Piano Legend Peter Wolf is a driven verbalist. The former frontman of the J. Geils Band and WBCN deejay of “Woofah Goofah” legend had a memorable way of describing the...

Long before he unveiled the persona of “Dr. John, the Night Tripper” in 1968, Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr., was known as a gifted and precocious guitar player, pianist and songwriter around...

Dr. John Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr., who was better known as Dr. John the Night Tripper, died on Thursday, June 6, at age 77. Among his many musical associations, he was a featured member of the RCO...

Is there a more versatile and accomplished guitar player in popular music than Duke Robillard? Duke excels at blues, jump, swing, and rock’n’roll, and he’s worked with an impressive range of artists, from...

Is there a more versatile and accomplished guitar player in popular music than Duke Robillard?  Duke excels at blues, jump, swing, and rock’n’roll, and he’s worked with an impressive range of...

As you’ve probably heard, the Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan played at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday, July 25, 1965, sold at Christie’s on December 6 for $965,000. All Things Considered gave...

A Style and An Era Recede With Her Passing Ernestine Anderson; Photo by Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Ernestine Anderson died in Seattle on March 10 at 87. The Houston native got an early...