TheBluesBlogger

Music writer/blogger... I love music! It's a vital part of my life; past & present.

[ChicagoBluesHistory @ChiBluesHistory]

The briefcase that Sonny Boy Williamson II carried onstage held the following items: a bottle of whiskey, a pack of cigarettes, a belt of harps in all keys, and a hatchet. In his suit pocket, a switchblade.

[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

73-yo Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is the last of the old Bentonia bluesmen. A couple years ago, his friend and manager brought him to Nashville for a secret purpose: to record a blues album. Now he's a #GRAMMYs nominee @SteveHartmanCBS reports.
https://t.co/B0pMXzjRlI

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

Congratulations to Fantastic Negrito who just won Best Contemporary Blues Album for “Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?” at the #Grammys!

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

Congratulations to Bobby Rush who just won Best Traditional Blues Album for “Rawer Than Raw” at the #Grammys !

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

The 2021 Blues Music Award nominees will be announced Thursday on The Blues Foundation Facebook page at 8am ET!

Stay tuned for more BMA news: https://t.co/eLFJDt6plJ

[Joe Bonamassa (Official) @JBONAMASSA]

Rest In Peace friend. Thank you for allowing me in your world. Leslie West was a rock and roll hall of fame member that didn’t need a statue nor ceremony to prove it. He just was and will always be.

[Joe Bonamassa (Official) @JBONAMASSA]

I am extremely honored and humbled by this. There were so many great albums released this year. Thank you to the fans as always. 😎👍

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

"I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint."

Celebrating the birth of the legendary, Chuck Berry!

[Guitar World @GuitarWorld]

Guitarists band together to support blues great Eric Gales, who is battling COVID-19 https://t.co/PB6OcXm1j5

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

“I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.”

Celebrating the birthday of Blues Hall of Fame legend, Ray Charles (Sep 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)!

[SiriusXM @SIRIUSXM]

Happy birthday, B.B. King! We're celebrating all day long on B.B. King's Bluesville channel, powered by @BluesFoundation. https://t.co/Zh2NAlcjn8

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

"I never wanted to be like other blues singers...I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself."

Happy birthday to B.B. King (Sep 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015)!

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

The Blues Foundation is pleased to announce Patricia Wilson Aden as our next President & CEO beginning Oct 1, 2020. Let’s give Patty a warm welcome!

Learn more: https://t.co/H0lv0LsSZx

[TheBluesBlogger @TheBluesBlogger]

"Any category they want to put me in is fine with me as long as they accept what I do...”

Remembering @BluesFoundation Hall of Fame Inductee (1988) James Milton Campbell Jr, AKA Little Milton from Inverness, #Mississippi. Born #OnThisDay

(Sept 7, 1934 – Aug 4, 2005)

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

The Blues Foundation and @SiriusXM just announced our new collaboration to expand the content and reach of B.B. King’s Bluesville: https://t.co/2fvnVm7hVE

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

Remembering the "Pride and Joy" left by Blues Hall of Fame legend, Stevie Ray Vaughan (Oct 3, 1954 - Aug 27, 1990) today.

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

Today we remember the original guitar hero and a godfather of the blues, Robert Johnson (May 8, 1911 - Aug 16, 1938).

“I’m standin' at the crossroad, babe, I believe I’m sinkin' down.”

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

“If you don’t think you know the blues, just keep living.”

Blues Hall of Fame guitar legend, Buddy Guy, celebrates 84 years of living today.

@TheRealBuddyGuy

[The Blues Foundation @BluesFoundation]

"A good player can make any guitar sound good."

Blues Hall of Fame legend and Paul Butterfield Blues Band guitar hero, Mike Bloomfield, was born on this day in 1943.