One thing I definitely picked up from my Dad, years before he passed on, was his love for music. Loud music. As a child, not a day passed without being awakened by the sound of his stereo playing ...

You’ve probably heard of boogie woogie. Its distinctive bass riffs pop up in Lead Belly’s guitar playing, Elvis Presley’s version of Otis Blackwell’s “All ...

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MARSHALL, Texas (KTAL/KSHV) – The second annual Boogie Woogie Festival is back in Marshall, Texas, bringing local food, good company and a tribute to a foundational genre. Alan Loudermilk, the founder ...

In East Texas before the Civil War, cotton was king and so was timber, as there were vast forests of longleaf pine trees covering eastern Texas. The lumber from the trees was an ideal building ...

Muddy Waters sang it, so it’s got to be true: “The blues done had a baby, and they named the baby rock and roll.” Hold on just a minute, says legendary Houston pianist Ezra Charles, who arrives Sunday ...

Texas boogie-woogie blues singer Marcia Ball may have been the perfect choice for Saturday’s first-ever concert at the new Levitt Pavilion at the SteelStacks entertainment complex in south Bethlehem.

There's no denying Pantera has their own sound, but every band has music that influences them, and during a lengthy chat with Rick Beato, Pantera's Rex Brown revealed the two bands that he thinks ...