By Michelangelo Matos, eMusic Contributor[To celebrate the release of his 11th studio album, Innocents, we invited Moby to take control of eMusic's editorial for a week. You can read our exclusive interview with him here. Moby asked us to… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorI saw my first diddley bows in 1996, at the rural Delta home outside Lexington, Mississippi, of bluesman Lonnie Pitchford. Pitchford, who died two years later at the age of 43, took me around the… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorThe collaborative album is another concept that seems to work best when tackled by a real veteran like King. How else to explain the devastating melancholy between B's guitar and Etta James's voice on "There… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorLet me tell you about Let Me Tell You About the Blues, a series of three-disc packages (several of which are available on eMusic) that attempts to trace the evolution of the music by focusing… more »
By Ed Ward, eMusic ContributorJohn Lee Hooker wasn't from Chicago; he was from its bitterest rival, Detroit. Problem was, Detroit didn't have much of a blues scene, and as far as a lot of people were concerned, John Lee… more »
By Mike McGonigal, eMusic ContributorWhen John Lee Hooker made the transition from regional indies to the larger independent label Vee-Jay in the mid '50s, he began to work with larger backing groups. Now, John Lee Hooker has made a… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorIt's tempting, given the relative paucity of Americans, to suggest that the recently released This Is the Blues, Volumes 1-4 instead be titled This Is The British Blues, or, even better, This Is British Blues-Rock.… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorPostwar, electric blues guitar in Texas all derives from T-Bone Walker, says conventional wisdom, and when you hear a great stylist like Pee Wee Crayton soloing in that jazzy, single-string tradition, it seems like an… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorThe biggest debate in blues circles these days is, "where did the blues begin?" Ever since the blues revival of the 50s and 60s, the answer has been "the Mississippi Delta." But in recent years,… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorTo the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever made a good case for a Cincinnati blues sound, but the Queen City was no stranger to the blues. A rough-hewn, urban backwater on the banks… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorThe Moneywasters Social Club had sold 557 tickets (50 cents in advance, 65 at the door) to its dance at the Rhythm Club in Natchez, Mississippi, on April 23, 1940. Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra, originally scheduled… more »
