HW99 All Stars CD release party
The Highway 99 All Stars are back for a CD release party! It’s a live recording at, you guessed it, The Highway 99 Blues Club.... Read more
Author: Jon Cosby
Punk meets the blues
This is interesting. Guitarist/vocalist Eva Walker and her twin brother, drummer Cedric David Walker, are originally from New Orleans, but were raised in Seattle. Forming... Read more
CEC presents Walter Trout
The Cultura Events Center is featuring another blues great this month, rock guitarist Walter Trout. I’ve posted updates about his life-threatening liver infection here, and... Read more
Video of the week
Beck demonstrates amazing improvisation with three takes of the blues classic. The first is a short and sweet instrumental solo for the Red, White &... Read more
WBS ticket giveaways
The Washington Blues Society is having three ticket giveaway contests for March and a fourth for April. Just join the events on Facebook for Lydia... Read more
Video of the week
John Mayer with Keith Urban – Don’t Let Me down These two really have it down with the Beatles song at the 2013 Crossroads Guitar... Read more
Music heals
Music is known to have physical, emotional, and spiritual healing effects. KEXP, in collaboration with Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Proton Therapy Center, is presenting Music... Read more
Great double bill in Tacoma
Stacy Jones will be kicking off for R&B great Tommy Castro at the Cultura Events Center in Tacoma this Saturday, February 25th. Stacy is well... Read more
Video of the week
Sylvester Weaver and Sara Martin – Longing For Daddy Blues Dated 1923, said to be the first blues guitar recording. Weaver used a bottleneck guitar... Read more
Full circle: Blues as spiritual
Spiritual music was instrumental in the early development of the blues. African Americans incorporated it along with work songs and field hollers from the post-Reconstruction... Read more