blues

Jake and Elwood Blues aren't just in the music business anymore.

If you want to see a cool show, Blues singer, guitar player, and songwriter, Ian Moore has two free shows this Thursday in Rockford.

'Planes, Trains and Eric' will include songs, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from Eric Clapton's most recent tour.

He'd been laying low for the better part of three years while struggling with substance abuse.

AC/DC gets lumped in with metal bands but they really were a great blues based band. An update on the Chuck Berry model of music. Great riffs, several chords (but not too many) and loved by all sorts of music fans. Everyone loves "Johnny B. Goode," and everyone loves "Whole Lotta Rosie...

The four members of the Doors really come from four different places. Jazzy, bluesy, experimental, Mars. You figure out which member is from where, it's not hard to do. Their first album released in early 1967 offers a full menu of tastes. "Light My Fire" was a jazzy approach to pop music...

I have brought up Led Zeppelin's history of borrowing heavily from past blues artists in this space before. Sometimes they have even had to pay 'undisclosed' sums to these artists after lawsuits were brought forth, but they really nailed this original blues number from Led Zeppelin III...

I have said it hundreds of times before and I will say it again. Rockford has no shortage of great musicians and bands. I have seen rock, death metal, alt-country, alt-blues, plain old alt stuff, blues, jazz, Cheap Trick and some pan flute combo thing.

Martin Sharp, who collaborated with Cream in the '60s, has died of emphysema. He was 71.

After just over two years as a band, Cream gave their final performance on Nov. 26, 1968. The concert was held at the Royal Albert Hall In England. Cream's decision to disband took fans by surprise, though simmering tensions within the band, primarily between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, came to a head, as Eric Clapton was losing interest in the band. They embarked on a 'farewell tour' of 19 citie