In 1980 Kashmar co-founded The Pontiax, which became one of the most popular West Coast blues bands, touring widely and backing legends like Willie Dixon, Pee Wee Crayton, Big Joe Turner, and Eddie ...

As a young man, Jerry Portnoy certainly didn’t expect or plan to have a career as a blues harmonica player. He’d already been on a roulette wheel of life paths: failed college student, ...

If you ask James Montgomery if he remembers playing the Shaboo inn in Willimantic back in the day — the legendary local club that closed in 1982 — he’ll hem and haw and scratch his head and say “The ...

The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. “I was 8, maybe 9 when I saw it, all shiny in a display case,” says Billy ...

Tucson blues fans might recognize a face or two among SoCal blues harmonica player R.J. Mischo’s Red Hot Blues Band at Friday’s 11th annual KXCI House Rockin’ Blues Review concert. There’s Arizona ...

At last year’s E-Town Shakedown Music and Art Fest in Eaton, after a performance from Tyler Michael Walton & The Mayflower Satchel, the Primetime Blues Band took the stage to headline the second ...