Albanie Falletta
By Frank Matheis “…go on with your bad self and let it out – sing louder and be more adventurous” You are going to love… Read More »Albanie Falletta
By Frank Matheis “…go on with your bad self and let it out – sing louder and be more adventurous” You are going to love… Read More »Albanie Falletta
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?
The Deep Blues According to Hubby Jenkins by Frank Matheis, as published in Living Blues magazine.Issue #253.Vol. 49, #1 . February 2018. When the Carolina… Read More »Hubby Jenkins
By Frank Matheis with photographs by Bibiana Huang Matheis © 2017 On September 14 and 15, 2017, the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) sponsored a series… Read More »Phil Wiggins Awarded the Prestigious National Heritage Fellowship
Nobody likes direct comparisons to other musicians because inevitably it implies that they are somehow copying the style of another. There are some instances when… Read More »Lightning Wells
As submitted to Living Blues and published in the column Breaking Out LB Issue #248 Vol. 48 #2. Photo Credit : Jim Meyers ©vertizonphoto.com Publisher’s Note: Ben… Read More »Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons
Article & Photos by Frank Matheis as published in Living Blues Magazine Issue #245. Vol.47, #5. October 2016. If you made up Marcus Lamont Cartwright,… Read More »Marcus Cartwright
© 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
Musings about the blues: unless young people play the old time blues, it will wither on the vine with the ‘60s and ‘70s generation that is… Read More »Felicia Jangard Nielsen
by Frank Matheis, as published in Living Blues magazine, April 2016; issue Nr. 242/Vol. 47/#2 Longtime Living Blues editor Jim O’Neil once said that Living… Read More »Jontavious Willis