For the past few months, the great Chicago blues harmonica player Sugar Blue has been on the run – from the coronavirus. His flight has taken him from Shanghai to Milan to the mountains of Italy to ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The Chicago Blues Festival begins today at Millennium Park and runs through Sunday. Admission to the fest is free. Those flying out of town will get a taste of the fest at O'Hare. In ...

There’s a type of blues music that is native to Chicago. It can be characterized by its use of guitar, harmonica and rhythm sections. And starting Thursday, June 6, the largest free blues festival in ...

Veteran harmonica player Bill Lupkin and his band will bring Chicago-style blues to the Redstone Room in Davenport on Friday September 5. The show, sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, ...

It’s been nearly 50 years since Chicago singer and harmonica player Billy Branch heard blues music for the first time as a 17-year-old student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Branch said it ...

Chicago blues harmonica master Billy Branch didn’t really want to record a tribute to a legend of his instrument, Little Walter. But with last year’s 50th anniversary of Little Walter’s death and next ...

Of all the Alligator Records artists performing in Millennium Park on Sat 9/18, Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials have been with the label the longest. Credit: Paul Natkin Blues music thrives on live ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Blues legend John Primer is among four Chicago artists being inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame this year. Primer was shredding at Rosa's Lounge in the Logan Square neighborhood just ...

She's a mover and shaker. He's a mellow fellow. Together it all works. Chicago music veterans Wendy Morgan and Darryl Boggs, who record and perform together as Wendy and DB, will release their fifth ...