Aaron Lewis, Hayes Carll, Corb Lund and 26 other country-roots artists are heading to the area between now and March. Check ...

Sure, summer's technically nine days away, but it's never too early to make your summer music festival plans. The Dispatch's guide to 23 festivals in the area and region is bookended by two events ...

Santa Barbara’s often-busy live music calendar can get in the way of a good time for avowed eclectics in town, in terms of soaking in the worthy goods on a given night. But last Saturday night, it was ...

Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated ...

In the beginning, there was blues. It poured out of the American South on acoustic guitars and pianos and made it up north ...

Carl “Buffalo” Nichols has the deep, methodical voice of a storyteller. He speaks in low, even tones that seem unhurried, even as his sentences amble forward invitingly—a trait reflected in the steady ...

Chicago guitarist and vocalist Melody Angel combines fiery celebrations of life with equally fearless and uncompromising demands for social justice. Her style of blues-rock mixes genres and influences ...

Somebody asked Muddy Waters what his blues meant. His reply: "Trouble." "What I meant was that the blues – from the gutbucket, alley blues, which I can offer, right straight up to the sophisticated, ...

(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone; Turn Into Earth ; Keep It Out Of Sight; Deep Inside Your Mind; How Could You Say One Thing; Run And Hide; Vacuum Cleaner; Love & Beauty; Walking Through The Streets Of ...