One of the South Shore’s best-known local groups performs in their hometown tonight, but under the guise of a slightly ...
John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Howlin’ Wolf, Junior Wells - Blues Brothers and former SNL icon Dan Aykroyd knows his blues ...
Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in ...
A year of solid practice brought Willie to join his first local band, and at age 14 ... “You gotta have a passion for it,” he says of the blues. “That’s got to be number one.
Born Michael John Robillard in Woonsocket in 1948, he founded Roomful Of Blues with pianist Al Copley in Westerly in 1967. (Dylan was also apparently a fan of that band.) The Rhode Island-based band ...
A s he took his seat at the organ behind Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in the summer of 1965, Barry Goldberg wasn't ...
Proving that even British bands could get in on the yacht rock act, the Climax Blues Band knocked off a pair of songs that fit well into the canon. There was the sleekly funky "Couldn't Get It Right" ...
Hot Springs one-man Delta Blues band Greg "Big Papa" Binns will be the featured performer at Wednesday Night Poetry at ...
A multifaceted musician, he was the last surviving original member of an influential group that mixed rock, r&b and an ...