Living Blues Magazine Living Blues #243 Back Issue

Living Blues #243 (June/July 2016) features guitarist Barbara Lynn on the cover. Lynn is one of the relatively few female blues guitarists to front a band and since her 1962 smash hit You’ll Lose a Good Thing has been doing just that. Boston’s Queen of the Blues, Toni Lynn Washington, has been singing the blues for over 60 years and is not slowing down now, just releasing a new album and touring behind it. It is hard to categorize the music of Brushy One String—part blues, part reggae, part soul and all deep roots. Nearly every blues guitarist has a story about playing a one string—Brushy just still plays his. Willie Dixon’s vision of a place to teach the blues to kids, provide business advice for musicians and help artists down on their luck eventually came to life in Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven Foundation in Chicago. We take a look inside. We also look at a fascinating collection of business card from the world of blues from 1930-2000. The newly christened B.B. King’s Blues Band is introduced, we talk with bluesman Fernando Jones’ about his blues school for kids, and talk with harp player Sugar Blue about his new album. All of that plus Blues News, Radio Charts, the latest CD reviews.