(By Spencer Phelps) In the county of Marion, Ohio, population 70,000, there are six radio stations – three iHeart stations that all share one roof, and three independent LPFM stations. Most of the ...
Each weekday morning, Ray Macklin, known as “Silky Ray” in the blues music world, helps Marion wake up with soulful vocals, sliding guitar riffs and syncopated rhythm. “Good morning, good morning,” ...
The longest-running syndicated blues program Blues Deluxe will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2023. The program, hosted by Dave Johnson, offers a one-hour presentation of new and classic ...
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, musical heir to a long line of blues greats from the Mississippi Delta, has been compared to the likes of B.B. King. But while the legendary guitarist is one of Ingram's ...
Porridge Radio's last two records, 2020's Every Bad and 2022's Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky both earned Album Of The Week honors after we deemed them a Band To Watch. The British indie ...
If you happened to be at the corner of Wabash and Balbo at 11 p.m. in early February, you would have seen a small crowd gathered around an 87-year-old man with a beaming smile. Nattily attired in a ...
More than 30 singers and over 100 instrumentalists from Poland, Sweden and Latvia played blues music continuously for 34 hours over the weekend, setting a new Polish record for a nonstop blues ...