Rainy Eyes, whose civilian name is Irena Eide, made the long trek from her native Norway to Denmark to the Bay Area to ...

A Journey Through Global Music, which accomplishes the same feat, but covers so much more ground. At over 800 pages, this ...

There’s no denying the FAME Studios / Muscle Shoals connection in Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s pair of separately released Dirt on ...

Nation BeatNation Beat is the vibrantly realized musical vision of its leader and founder, Scott Kettner. A drummer, ...

Guitarist and songwriter Jim Stephens designs his albums as a curator or tour guide. By any standard you can name—musical ...

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Piper and the Hard Times play a brawny array of blues, rock, soul, rhythm-and-blues and funk.

Like the blues piano, Eden Brent also has a unique, distinguishing presence. She’s one of the few ladies pounding ...

Joe Adragna joins that company with the latest Junior League album (on which he again does the lion’s share of the singing ...

The last thing you’d expect Tab Benoit to require is another guitar player, especially one with an equally high profile as a bandleader.

Matt Booth is perhaps best known in New Orleans as a member of the exceptional ensemble simply called Extended. Leading his own group on Sun Prints, the bassist and composer, who now resides in Durham ...

The New Orleans Opera brings Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece, Tosca, to the stage. Set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Rome, ...