I’ve tried in the past to spur discussion around blues and The Roadhouse. The forum didn’t work out so well. I do think discussion is a critical piece of The Roadhouse community, though, so today I’ve created a Google Group specifically for discussing blues and The Roadhouse.

Blues In The Roadhouse

Feel free to join and talk, [...]

I’ve talked a lot about how many opportunities there are for Roadhouse listeners to leave audio comments. In fact, I talked about it last week and finally received a comment on The Roadhouse Comments Line.

Okay—there’s actually one less way. I recently took Windows completely off the latptop. A fresh Ubuntu install solved the wireless problems [...]

We’re running the rainbow in this edition with a full view of all the hues of the blues. Blues rock, jazzy blues and, of course, the traditional sound of this amazing musical form. If you’re new to The Roadhouse, you might be a bit surprised by the range of styles. But it’s all blues – [...]

Let’s just call this the cool blues edition of The Roadhouse. It’s a little slower with a few less horns and a few more harps and acoustic guitars. Maybe it’s just my way of pulling in and slowing down a bit in the sweltering heat of June at the little blue house on the wetlands. [...]

At 69 hours of the finest blues you’ve never heard, it sounds like a marathon. That’s 2.875 continuous days of the blues. Or a work-week and a three-quarters. Or, about the number of hours it would take to drive straight through from New York to Los Angeles and back to Chicago, averaging 69 mph. Larry [...]

Blue skies, brilliant sunshine, brand new artists, outstanding new labels – all converge right here, in a little dotpoint on the blues-time continuum that I like to call an hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Like a theoretical physicist searching for the beginning of time, you’ve managed to stumble across the singularity known [...]