It’s brutal out there, and that’s why, more than ever, we needed the consoling and prodding pleasures of popular music to help everything make sense in here. [Stage direction: taps chest, knowingly.] ...

This was a year of rebirth and return across the music industry, both locally and nationally. Nowhere was that more evident than in Music City’s jazz, blues and soul scenes. After months of pandemic ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about blues music is that the genre is all about doom and gloom. Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak.

On the tracklist of Blues Traveler’s most recent album a curious song is wedged between a blues track from the late 1960s and another from 1974. It’s the jam band’s cover of the Gnarls Barkley’s 2006 ...