I was lucky enough to be regularly on the road during the 1970s with Cousin Joe from New Orleans, and…

We were sitting at the back of this single-decker bus, parked in a muddy field in West Flanders, Belgium. The…

Growing up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, Umpeylia Marsema Belinton knew from an early age that she was…

Lloyd Price was born in 1933 in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner. As he grew up, he took formal…

The Henry’s Postbag received an interesting note from a British bluesman living in France. It read, “My name is Giles…

American Blues Legends ’74 took the likes of Doctor Ross, Cousin Joe, Big John Wrencher and Eddie Playboy Taylor on…

Chuck Berry, photographed by Jim Simpson at Birmingham Hippodrome in 1964 Chuck Berry was a difficult man. Moody, erratic, arrogant,…

Following on from last week’s Part 1 of Paris Blues featuring Memphis Slim and Willie Mabon, we feature the third of those great…

Willie Dixon, maybe the single most influential of bluesmen, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the first day of July…

I will never understand why Hurricane Bobby Charles is not a household name in Blues and Rock & Roll. Admittedly,…