Welcome to the Juke Blues Magazine website
This is the homepage of Juke Blues, the three-times award-winning music magazine. Juke Blues publishes quality coverage of all types of African-American blues and traditional music, from the city to Southern soul, from vintage R&B to gospel and zydeco, with just a touch of other related genres. Each issue is a goldmine of information.
Current issue No. 71
76 pages, full colour throughout
Ernest Lane
The fascinating story of the talented pianist from Clarksdale, Mississippi, whose musical life was a roller-coaster ride from the Delta and Chicago to Los Angeles, taking in Robert Nighthawk, Earl Hooker and Ike Turner, and some very unexpected events and other musicians along the way
Smiley Lewis
The second part of an examination of Smiley’s history and recordings — one of New Orleans’ greatest, but most underrated, blues artists
The Golden Gate Quartet
Interviews with members of the trailblazing gospel group who started out in the 1930s and took their music beyond recordings to radio, TV, films and nightclubs worldwide
The Steelers
The previously under-researched Chicago soul vocal group’s story told in interviews with original members Alonzo ’Kool’ Wells and his brother Wes Wells
Bobby Robinson
Tribute to the legendary Harlem record man (Fire, Fury, Enjoy Records, etc) who sadly died in January 2011 at the age of 93
David Murray
The second part of the prolific jazz tenor saxophonist’s story
Art Satherley
A commemoration of the British emigré to the USA who was a pioneer at Paramount Records. Great photo of him in 1923 in his office!
Plus tons more, including
- News (with Dick Shurman’s Chicago report)
- Festival reports
- Obituaries
- Loads of great photos . . . and of course the reviews section including CDs and books!
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Three-times Award winner
• Keeping The Blues Alive, 2000
• Sweet Soul Music, 2001
• Blues Hall of Fame Classic of Blues Literature, 2004
