A release of remastered albums on vinyl by the European jazz label Storyville provides a welcome chance to re-evaluate the blues and the black artists who introduced the musical form to Europe. The ...

Magic Slim, a younger contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago’s electric blues, died Thursday. He was 75. He died shortly after midnight ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Guitarist Magic Slim, a mainstay of the Chicago blues scene who followed in the footsteps of such greats as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, died on Thursday at age 75, his ...

Magic Slim, a younger contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago's electric blues, died Thursday. He was 75. He died shortly after midnight ...

knew time was running short before he set out on his last tour at the start of 2013. The 75-year-old musician told his wife before he left for the road he may not be back, Holt's son, said during a ...

Music like this gets harder to find by the day. Magic Slim & the Teardrops’ tag as “the last real Chicago blues band” may be a bit of an exaggeration — but not by much. And the label gathers more ...

The road from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago has been traversed by many blues artists. Since after World War II, movers and shakers such as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf brought the down-home sound ...

Aug. 16: As a child in Mississippi, Morris Holt had to give up piano playing when he lost his right pinkie in a cotton-gin accident, so he picked up a guitar, came to Chicago in the mid-fifties, was ...