Louisiana Blues guitarist Tab Benoit has been on tour around the United States in support of I Hear Thunder, his first new ...

Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel will perform at the Black Swamp Arts Festival Saturday evening at 10 p.m. The band plays ...

A former blues-guitar wunderkind who has five albums that charted in the Top 50 of Billboard is coming to ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, it has been announced. Also coming is a swamp-blues rocker… ...

He also worked as a sideman for other Excello artists, contributing guitar, harmonica, and percussion (including drums, wood blocks, cardboard boxes, folded-up newspapers, and even the studio walls).

He helped shape swamp blues, a subgenre that incorporates zydeco, Cajun, country and other influences, both in his recordings as a band leader and while playing harmonica, guitar and percussion on ...

Louisiana’s Swamp Blues scene is alive and thriving, thanks to the latest offering from multi-Blues Music Award-winner and Grammy nominee Kenny Neal. According to a press release, the celebrated ...

On Dockside, Jonah Tolchin not only goes it alone for his newly formed Clover Music imprint but decided to be a stay-at-home musician.

An unlikely influence on most blues artists, Clark's tune “The Guitar” is the lone cover Fowler chose for his new album, and his faithful rendition fits perfectly in this collection, which ...

When Lazy Lester visits Baton Rouge this weekend to play the Baton Rouge Blues Festival, he’ll be home again in swamp blues country. South Louisiana is the land where the swamp blues began, and ...

It was a crazy song for a crazy time. Tony Joe White’s ‘Polk Salad Annie’ oozed up from the Louisiana swamp to become a Top-10 hit in 1969, the year of Woodstock, Chappaquiddick and Neil ...

Leslie Johnson, the architect of Louisiana swamp-blues who was better known as "Lazy Lester," died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Paradise, California. He was 85.