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Blues Music Awards Performers to include Irma Thomas, Taj Mahal, Bettye LaVette, more

It's not that common for one to present an award bearing their own name, but that's exactly what the legendary B.B. King will do May 7 in Memphis, Tenn. at the 30th annual Blues Music Awards, where one nominee will be handed the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award by the man himself....  read more

Various Artists: Dirty Laundry/More Dirty Laundry

As instantly, pleasingly right as the micro-genre's name implies...  read more

Rothbury 2008: Day 2

Rothbury kicked into high gear on Friday, as Jakob Dylan ushered in the afternoon with a set of dusty Americana tunes. Sporting a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses that could've reflected a nuclear blast, Dylan looked like Sheriff Cooley from O Brother, Where Art Thou? while singing in a comfortable, cool baritone. “Let me be the first up here to say ‘Happy 4th of July,’” he said, drawing applause from the crowd of Wallflowers fans and wandering passerby....  read more

Bettye Lavette: Late Bloomer Gets Her Mojo On

After Atlantic Records shelved what singer Bettye LaVette had hoped would be her breakthrough album in 1972—an album recorded in soul-music hotbed Muscle Shoals, Ala.—the Detroit native spent more than three decades exiled on the farthest fringes of the music biz, singing for her supper in dives and lounges...  read more