Living Blues Magazine Living Blues #288 Back Issue

Living Blues #288 features California guitarist Arthur Adams. For more than 60 years Adams has been playing gospel, blues, R&B, and funk, lending his chops to hundreds of recording sessions and dozens of his own releases. We explore the legacy of this underrecognized musician. Anne Harris is a force of nature. The Chicago-based artist combines her mastery of the violin, incredible dance moves, and deep musical knowledge into a stage show that fans rave about. Canadian blues band the Blackburn Brothers trace their roots back to enslavement in Kentucky and an escape north along the Underground Railroad. The generational family band plays traditional blues and R&B with a contemporary take. This issue’s Let It Roll focusses on Avalon, Mississippi’s John Hurt was always a bit of an anomaly in the blues. His gentle singing and finger-picked guitar sound were like nothing else to come out of his home state. One quick look at the output of his December sessions for OKeh Records and you can see why it is known as one of the most important and influential pre-war blues sessions of all time.
All of this plus Breaking Out with Nay Myers, the latest in Blues News, and over 50 record and book reviews.