The word itself sounds so simple, but depending on how it fits into your psyche, it can mean so many different things. Blue! Sad? You feel blue. The sky? It’s blue. A sailor gets dressed up? He’s ...

Chicago, IL--Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans announce the World Premiere of Low Down Dirty Blues, by Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, the creators of It Ain't Nothin' ...

There’s nothing like a great nightclub experience. Today, it might be that incredible DJ at an underground dance club. In the middle of the last century, it might have looked a lot like “Low Down ...

Randal Myler has rocked the Temple of Music and Art with “Love, Janis” and “It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues.” He’ll do it again with “Low Down Dirty Blues,” which Arizona Theatre Company opens in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Newsweek profiled the late blues guitarist B.B. King, who died this ...

A conversation with a guy like Drink Small is something you can’t help but laugh your way through. After all, the 82-year-old South Carolina blues legend is full of Drinkisms. “So when you come to my ...

The born-in-Chicago revue Low Down Dirty Blues explores both the sociopolitical oppression and the sexual hunger that inspired many a great blues song. Though the piece still needs work, it already ...

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