“Singing the blues” may seem to be a weird title as we travel through the holiday season and approach the end of another semester. We might think it should be a time of rejoicing. Yet if we are honest ...

Colstrip Power Plant (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan). First, let’s begin with a brief history lesson. Back in 1970 when Republicans and Democrats agreed clean air and water were ...

The gift-giving December holiday of your choice comes a little bit early here at Georgetown, at least academically speaking. Today brings the release of pre-registration results, courtesy of the ...

Blues legend Bessie Smith’s tombstone (ironically, purchased by singer Janis Joplin just before her own death) declares, “The greatest blues singer in the world will never stop singing.” Smith may be ...

Donna Salter is delivering standard lounge lines to wake up the dinner crowd at the Ice House Cafe and Oyster Bar in Herndon, but it isn't working on this hungry audience. Anyone celebrating a ...

In the mid-1980s, San Francisco-based Paul Pena–a black blues singer/guitarist best known for writing the Steve Miller Band hit “Jet Airliner”–was listening to shortwave radio when he came upon a ...

A musician Guitarist Magazine called "the new King of the Blues" and a Grammy-nominated guitarist from Louisiana will headline the 13th annual Fargo Blues Festival, a two-day, 12-band performance Aug.