B.B. King

Future Shock: Agent Orange, B.B. King, Ying Yang Twins, and more

Future Shock: Jay Reatard, Jordin Sparks, and more

CHUY'S REBORN, AND SO IS PATCH THE PIRATE

SCREED

HARD-KNOCK MANLOCAL LEGEND HANS OLSON IS A MASTER OF THE BLUES--BUT WILL HE EVER GET CONTROL OF HIS DESTINY?

SCREED

Blues Blood

Local blues scholar Bob Corritore has refined tastes guided by one rule: The music has to come from the gut.

1996 New Times Music Awards Showcase

Local blues scholar Bob Corritore has refined tastes guided by one rule: The music has to come from the gut.

Recordings

Local blues scholar Bob Corritore has refined tastes guided by one rule: The music has to come from the gut.

Recordings

Local blues scholar Bob Corritore has refined tastes guided by one rule: The music has to come from the gut.

What's Soul Got to Do With It?

Ike & Tina's sizzling Carnegie Hall date, plus previews of Big Jack Johnson and James Harman

Goin' Fishin'

Arizona's tight-knit blues community is about to lose its longtime ambassador, Big Pete Pearson

Wang Dang Diva

After three decades on the road, Koko Taylor maintains the grueling pace of a blues torch carrier

Go Ask Alice

On the eve of Alice Cooper's boxed-set release party, several local musicians are cursing the bar that bears his name

Joe Bonamassa

On the eve of Alice Cooper's boxed-set release party, several local musicians are cursing the bar that bears his name

David Sanborn

Here & Gone
(Decca Records)

Blue Steel

Here & Gone
(Decca Records)

Guitar Shorty

Here & Gone
(Decca Records)

Ex Factor

Blues-rocker breaks up to make up for lost time

Sonny Rhodes

Baptized in blues

Southern Man

Mighty Mississippi

Buddy Guy

Can't Quit the Blues
(Sony)

Death Pool for Cutie

Everybody's gotta go sometime

B.B. King

Finally, the tough questions

John Hiatt

Forced to keep it real

Full Nelson

Willie performs 50 years' worth of music at Celebrity Theatre

Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm

Older and wiser legend sticks to the music

Devil in Disguise

Have Tassels Will Travel pays tribute to Satan's Angel

John Hiatt

Veteran songwriter sings his own

Happy Lookers

Street walkers get an eyeful

Rock This Way

Guitar greats join forces

Robert Lockwood Jr.

Aging finer than wine

John Hiatt and the Goners

Beneath This Gruff Exterior (New West)

Various Artist

It'll Come to You: The Songs of John Hiatt (Vanguard)

Red Alert

Blues expatriate Louisiana Red finds a home, and an audience, in Germany

Forever Young?

Bob Dylan's old enough to live in Sun City, let alone play there

Alive and Kicking

Despite being entombed in the recent PBS series, Gumbo shows why jazz is very much alive and well with a fine batch of new releases

Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists

Edited by Jas Obrecht (Miller Freeman Books)

Pompousness and Circumstance

Gumbo gets smug as he samples some Coltrane, gets blue with Big Bill, does Duke with the Doc and feels some local Native American muse

HIGH PRIEST OF EVERYTHINGDOC POMUS CRAFTED ENOUGH MAGIC MOMENTS TO FILL A MILLION JUKEBOXES

Gumbo gets smug as he samples some Coltrane, gets blue with Big Bill, does Duke with the Doc and feels some local Native American muse

HERE'S THE BEEF

SLEEPY LABEEF IS NO HAS-BEEN OR NEVER-WAS. HE JUST IS.

THE BIRDS ARE THE WORD

THEIR LEAD SINGER IS ONLY 13, BUT THE BLUEBIRDS ARE NO NOVERLTY ACT

The Phoenix Summer Folk Festival @ Modified Arts: That's All, Folks.

When I think of folk music, I think of older, fogey-er guys and gals who strum slowly and sing about wild horses and flowers . . . But the Phoenix Annual Summer Folk Festival at Modified Arts, presented Thursday by River Jones Music, made folk cool again.For a Thursday afternoon in June, the fest at ... More >>

Soul Power Documents an Epic Concert

When I think of folk music, I think of older, fogey-er guys and gals who strum slowly and sing about wild horses and flowers . . . But the Phoenix Annual Summer Folk Festival at Modified Arts, presented Thursday by River Jones Music, made folk cool again.For a Thursday afternoon in June, the fest at ... More >>

Leon Russell

When I think of folk music, I think of older, fogey-er guys and gals who strum slowly and sing about wild horses and flowers . . . But the Phoenix Annual Summer Folk Festival at Modified Arts, presented Thursday by River Jones Music, made folk cool again.For a Thursday afternoon in June, the fest at ... More >>

Lil' Dave Thompson

When I think of folk music, I think of older, fogey-er guys and gals who strum slowly and sing about wild horses and flowers . . . But the Phoenix Annual Summer Folk Festival at Modified Arts, presented Thursday by River Jones Music, made folk cool again.For a Thursday afternoon in June, the fest at ... More >>

Keb' Mo'

When I think of folk music, I think of older, fogey-er guys and gals who strum slowly and sing about wild horses and flowers . . . But the Phoenix Annual Summer Folk Festival at Modified Arts, presented Thursday by River Jones Music, made folk cool again.For a Thursday afternoon in June, the fest at ... More >>

Joe Bonamassa

When I think of folk music, I think of older, fogey-er guys and gals who strum slowly and sing about wild horses and flowers . . . But the Phoenix Annual Summer Folk Festival at Modified Arts, presented Thursday by River Jones Music, made folk cool again.For a Thursday afternoon in June, the fest at ... More >>

Guitar Hero

We’re talking about Clapton, of course

Why Bob Corritore Is Phoenix's Bluesman

We’re talking about Clapton, of course

Leon Blue @ Tempe Center for the Arts

We’re talking about Clapton, of course

Top 5 Shows to Catch This Weekend: Tetra String Quartet, B.B. King, Headroom, Memorial Tribute to Paul Thomas, and PJ Waxman

Headroom is scheduled to perform Saturday, December 3, at Copper Blues.​ Well, it's December, which means you can't avoid it any longer: it's time to start Christmas shopping. That's my plan at least, a desperate attempt to get it done sometime before, oh, December 23, as is my usual scramble. But ... More >>

Carve It Up

Headroom is scheduled to perform Saturday, December 3, at Copper Blues.​ Well, it's December, which means you can't avoid it any longer: it's time to start Christmas shopping. That's my plan at least, a desperate attempt to get it done sometime before, oh, December 23, as is my usual scramble. But ... More >>