John Lee Hooker

A sense of wonder permeates Lee Fields' voice. This feeling comes through when he sings with The Expressions, a young band that has absorbed the techniques of early '70s soul. His stories convey a similar sense of awe. One of Fields' favorite...

Guitarist Vieux Farka Toure conveys a sense of restrained urgency on his disc, "The Secret" (Six Degrees). His minimalism leaves room for international guest musicians, while he responds with subdued ferocity. Toure also talks about his home with a global...

These days, Dar Lopez approaches the Riverwalk Blues and Music Festival with a degree of humility. It's rooted, perhaps, in the organizer's abiding respect for the event's late founder, Don Cohen, who inaugurated the all-day party in the parking lot of...

If you're a music fan of a certain age — say, perhaps, 41 — it may strike you as a bit disconcerting to listen to Derek Trucks talk about his kids. For there's a good chance that the first time you heard Trucks' name, he was an 11-year-old...

Mac Arnold sounds completely at home on his sweat-raising 2011 recording, "Blues Revival." Captured on-stage at the Grey Eagle club in Greenville, S.C. — about 15 miles from the rural hamlet of Pelzer, where he grew up and currently resides —...

Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy sang at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Friday night, "I'm 76 years young, there ain't nothing I haven't done." I believe it. Guy played with John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He......

There are many reasons to genuflect at the humble altar of music, booze and camaraderie known as Tobacco Road that have nothing to do with its unlikely centennial, being celebrated with a party on Saturday. No. 1 is its mere existence. If it’s been...

Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week. 1. FUN. Fun.’s breakthrough No. 1 hit “We Are Young (Feat. Janelle Monáe)” was atop Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for four consecutive weeks (it’s still No. 11 after 31 weeks) and is the......

When blues-rocker George Thorogood plays at Sands Bethlehem Event Center tonight, Aug. 2, don’t be surprised to hear the crowd uninhibitedly singing along with his best-known, good-time songs such as “Move It On Over,” “Who Do...

Funk upon a rhyme! In the days of the Funky bunch The concept of dropping Hip-Hop on the one Was firmly planted, Oops, upside your head To the boogie to the boogie-de-beat By the earthly funketeers in the heart of the Elm City Funky Haven—...

Blues guitarist Robert Cray says that as he was climbing the ladder of the music business, each time he would get to meet one of his inspirations, he would let them know what their music meant to him. The 58-year-old......

The seminal insult comic and a blues rocker have been announced as headliners for the new Sands Bethlehem Event Center. Don Rickles, the 85-year-old comic known as "Mr. Warmth" because of his offensive and insensitive stage personality, will perform on......