A release of remastered albums on vinyl by the European jazz label Storyville provides a welcome chance to re-evaluate the blues and the black artists who introduced the musical form to Europe. The ...

Magic Slim, a younger contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago’s electric blues, died Thursday. He was 75. He died shortly after midnight ...

, which gets underway Saturday with music throughout the day. The event takes place at the Herkimer Country Fairgrounds (Cemetery Rd. and Route 5 South, Frankfort). Here's a schedule for Saturday's ...

The Slim side of Morris Holt’s moniker is off by a hundred pounds or more, but the Magic part is sure enough accurate, especially if you go by dictionary definitions No. 3 (the exercise of sleight of ...

Magic Slim, a younger contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago's electric blues, died early Thursday. He was 75. He died shortly after midnight ...

Despite its slim size, the Magic V5 still squeezes in a volume rocker and a power button on the right-hand side; the power button also doubles up as a responsive and accurate fingerprint reader. At ...

Magic Slim is a living blues legend who migrated from the South to Chicago during the 40s and 50s. Slim plays raw intense blues, a style that uses no pedals down on the floor, just him. Slim has paved ...

The road from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago has been traversed by many blues artists. Since after World War II, movers and shakers such as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf brought the down-home sound ...