The Great White North Blues

 Photos by Randy MacNeil / Feature photo: Colin Linden The Mississippi Delta, smoky clubs in Chicago, wailing out windows in Memphis and heating up the snowy streets of Toronto, one of these things is not like the other when it comes to what people generally associate with The Blues. Ottawa photographer Randy

Rainbow Blues

 Guitarist Philip Sayce rocks the Rainbow (photo by Terry Steeves). AOther images courtesy of the Rainbow Bistro. Credits AlZon Photography and Scott Doubt of sD3. “The Blues had a baby and they called it Rock and Roll,” Muddy Waters once said and though rock may have become the dominate genre the influence

OLM Book Review: Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

 Author Esi Edugyan’s eloquent prose pays a worthy homage to the blues, as it is often considered the simplest yet most difficult music to play. The beginning of World War Two has The Hot Time Swingers on the run. This Blues band, along with their prodigy trumpet player, Hieronymus Falk