I have booths in here that’s older than me.” Johnson’s fans include Johnny Palazzotto, the local music entrepreneur who founded Baton Rouge’s Slim Harpo Music Awards. In 2010, the Harpo Awards named ...

If you walk into the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History in Fayetteville, you might suddenly find yourself very much at home--that is, if you're from the South. As you stand on a wooden ...

The blues runs deep through Orlando Paden’s veins. As a child, he danced for nickels and quarters by the jukebox. He cleaned, crushed cans, and bagged them. He’d greet Mr. Bill, the bouncer, at the ...

The youngest band to perform at the recent Baton Rouge Blues Festival, the Juke Joint Juniors feature middle and high school students enrolled in the West Baton Rouge Museum’s Blues After School ...

The dog days of summer are bringing us anything but musical dogs -- as evidenced this week by a hot new juke joint blues compilation by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, an archival dig from Neil Young ...

Police have been asked to investigate after an exhibit at the Pryor Center was vandalized with a swastika last week, ...

Two nationally recognized blues groups are coming to Tucson this weekend, both offering a mix of down-home and blues-rock music. First up, the Southern Arizona Blues and Heritage Foundation and the ...

While Music City residents can hear the blues nightly at one location or another, for anyone seeking quality musical consistency, a mix of local, regional and occasional national talent and great ...

In Clarksdale, epicenter of the blues, this year's Juke Joint Festival has everything from legendary blues singers like Grammy-winner David "Honeyboy" Edwards, all the way to racing pigs and monkeys ...

Morgan Christopher Geer has been a force in the local music scene for over 30 years. Whether performing solo as Drunken Prayer or with a full backing band, the singer-songwriter and guitarist ...

Teddy’s Juke Joint, the world-famous music attraction in Zachary, celebrates its 45th anniversary on Saturday. Teddy “Lloyd” Johnson — the venue’s cowboy hat-wearing owner and DJ — has booked the Neal ...