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Listen to a Tom Jones Track Produced by Jack White

As previously reported, Tom Jones and Jack White took to the studio to record two tracks for Third Man Records’ Blue Series.   read more

Hubert Sumlin: 1931-2011

Yesterday renowned electric blues guitarist and singer Hubert Sumlin, most famous for his role as the guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band, died of heart failure while hospitalized in Wayne, N.J. He was 80.  read more

The 10 Best Robert Johnson Covers

One hundred years after his birth, Robert Johnson remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He's inspired a range of musicians, so to mark his birthday this week, we present 10 of the best Robert Johnson covers.  read more

Various Artists: Light: On the South Side

The gorgeous sights and sounds of ’70s Chicago blues Afro-topped women’s libbers, fedora-clad gangsters and bespectacled academics: The black men and women who inhabit photographer Michael Abramson’s hedonistic photos of ’70s Chicago blues clubs span the social and historical spectrum. In new book Light: On the South Side, we witness a time when the meeting point of Howlin’ Wolf and James Brown still catalyzed black American life—the last time, as Nick Hornby says in the introduction, that “the past and the future [co-existed] so peaceably.”...  read more

Howlin' Wolf: Rockin' the Blues: Live in Germany 1964

Listening to the studio recordings of blues legend...  read more