In Living Blues #201
May 2009

Dear Friends, I just returned from the 2009 Blues Music Awards in Memphis. It was a very exciting night —lots of great music (about six hours of it) and plen...

In Living Blues #196
May 2008

Dear Friends, A couple weeks ago I had the great pleasure of attending the Springing The Blues Festival in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Sam Veal founded this...

In Living Blues #195
March 2008

Dear Friends, Seems like I’ve hardly had a good night’s sleep since the beginning of the year. First was a trip to MIDEM, the international record business t...

In Living Blues #194
January 2008

Dear Friends, Happy New Year! I’m sure hoping 2008 will be a good year for the blues; we lost way too many of our elder statesman in 2007. Our first piece of...

In Living Blues #193
November 2007

Dear Friends, I’m very honored to learn that in February I’ll be receiving the Blues Foundation’s “Keeping The Blues Alive” award for my work as a Producer. ...

In Living Blues #190
May 2007

Dear Friends, I just had the pleasure of spending five days in the studio with Tinsley Ellis, mixing his upcoming new album Moment Of Truth. Tinsley is proud...

In Living Blues #188
January 2007

Dear Friends, Welcome to a new year, and one that I hope will be better for the blues than 2006. In the last few months, we’ve lost so many of our most belov...

IN LIVING BLUES #184
May 2006

Dear Friends, I’m writing this from the studio while I work with the engineer on the mixes for Rattleshake ,the new CD from Chicago’s happiest, rawest ...

IN LIVING BLUES #181
November 2005

Dear Friends, Today I spent remastering some of the best tracks from the seven Alligator albums by Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women. A Saffire collection, s...

IN LIVING BLUES #180
September 2005

Dear Friends, We’re feeling pretty thrilled about the reception to Shemekia Copeland’s new CD, The Soul Truth. The press loves how Steve Cropper’s Stax-styl...