About Frank Matheis
Frank Matheis is a regular contributing writer for Living Blues magazine, formerly for Blues Access. He is the publisher of thecountryblues.com and the primary writer. As… Read More »About Frank Matheis
Frank Matheis is a regular contributing writer for Living Blues magazine, formerly for Blues Access. He is the publisher of thecountryblues.com and the primary writer. As… Read More »About Frank Matheis
By Frank Matheis The bluesman from Virginia Beach, Virginia, is a retired physician who was a student of John Cephas’. Marc Pessar now plays largely… Read More »Marc Pessar
By Frank Matheis The bluesman from Virginia Beach, Virginia, is a retired physician who was a student of John Cephas’. Marc Pessar now plays largely… Read More »Marc Pessar
by Frank Matheis, publisher, 2020 update The good news is that there are still at least 600 or so musicians actively performing the acoustic blues… Read More »Will the Acoustic Blues Survive?
© 2016 Article and Photographs by Frank Matheis In the summer of 2016, the insanity theater unfolded: at the tumultuous political convention politicians raged; innocent… Read More »An Escape from the News to the Blues – Augusta Blues Week 2016
article and photos by Frank Matheis © 2015 As the traditional blues musicians took center stage on a sweltering Saturday afternoon, temperatures reached 102 degrees… Read More »The First Annual John Cephas Piedmont Blues Festival • June 13, 2015 • Bowling Green, Virginia.
The landmark Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, New York, celebrates Woman’s Month in March with a range of events to highlight both the celebration and… Read More »thecountryblues.com sponsors ‘Women in the Blues’ Concert at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY
As published in Living Blues Issue #234 Vol. 45, # 6, December 2014/unedited version by Frank Matheis Phil Wiggins – On His Own, But Not… Read More »Phil Wiggins
by Frank Matheis, publisher, 2014 The good news is that there are still at least 500 or so musicians actively performing the acoustic blues today,… Read More »Will the Acoustic Blues Survive?
“Nobody will get rich playing the traditional blues, but that’s what I chose to do,” laments Shelton Powe, who recently started to go by the… Read More »Shelton “Kotton” Powe Jr.