Subject: Big Mama Thornton

• Pic Hits for the week

  January 4, 1996

• Want Some Candye?

  From blue movies to blues diva, Candye Kane did it her way

  February 6, 1997

• Get It While You Can

  Jerry Ragavoy and the ghost of Janis Joplin

  June 12, 1997

• Immigrant Songs

  Los Tigres del Norte continue to document the complex lives of Mexicans in America

  May 7, 1998

• Smooth Blues Brown

  R&B pioneer Charles Brown dies, following a golden decade of career rejuvenation

  February 11, 1999

• Give Us the Blues: Janis Joplin Tribute Band Ball and Chain Performs this Sunday

  There's a Janis Joplin tribute band playing in Phoenix, and as the late '60s icon herself would say, "Get it while you can."Phoenix resident Susan Ballard has been impersonating blues singer Janis Joplin since 1997, when she played her first tribute show at a club on 7th Avenue called Desert Rose. The show coming up on Sunday, February 22 is a homecoming of sorts -- it'll be at zGirl club, formerly known as Misty's, formerly known as Desert Rose. "It's going to be madness," Ballard says. "It's a

  February 17, 2009

• Shawn Camp & Billy Burnette

  The Bluegrass Elvises, Vol. 1
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  October 4, 2007

• Koko Taylor

  Raise your glass to the next seven decades

  March 3, 2005

• BLUES BYTHER BOOKBLUESMAN SMITH ON VIOLENCE, LIFE AND MUSIC

  May 18, 1994