Living Blues Magazine Living Blues #263 Back Issue

Living Blues #263 (October/November) features Hill Country bluesman Little Joe Ayers on the cover. An elder in the scene now, Ayers played with R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough back in the days before Fat Possum recorded them, and he continues to make his own music today. Clarksdale, Mississippi, native Andrew “Shine” Turner is one of the links between Delta blues past and Delta blues future. Turner schooled with Big Jack Johnson, Frank Frost, Sam Carr, and CV Veal, and today he carries on their legacy as a member of the Stone Gas Band. Having humble beginnings as a small exhibit in the local library, the Delta Blues Museum is now a world-class museum with nearly 5,000 square feet of gallery space. We celebrate the museum’s 40th anniversary. On Easter weekend in 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama, Gatemouth Moore staged his own death and resurrection in one of the great showbiz acts in a long career of great acts. The bluesman turned preacher was a master showman who was never at a loss for words or ideas. This issue’s edition of Let It Roll features Otis Rush at Cobra Records. In the late 1950s Eli Toscano recorded some of the genre’s most electrifying blues sides. For many, the pinnacle of these recordings was the last session he did with Otis Rush in early 1959.
All of this plus the latest Blues News, LB Talks to Guitar Shorty, and reviews of all of the latest releases in the industry.