<![CDATA[ Latest from Louder in Blues ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/tag/blues Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000 en <![CDATA[ I had cassette tapes of Muddy’s Chess songs made. “I’d bring them to the studio and he would decide if he wanted to record a song again”: How a blues legend made a stunning return to form in the twllight of his career - with help from a young guitar hero ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/muddy-waters-hard-again-story-behind-the-album RXcPvUW9mbQJdQFs73z4xn Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “A classic style of hopeful, melancholy which will pleasantly trigger Moody Blues fans”: John Lodge’s Love Conquers All EP ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/john-lodge-love-conquers-all SUk8CNXBdUPHxqNKoGGi64 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:15:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ "If he hadn’t been around, we’d have had to get some fat old geezer who’d be telling us about how he played with Clapton in ’76." Noel Gallagher on how Johnny Depp ended up playing on an Oasis album ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-johnny-depp-ended-up-playing-on-an-oasis-album XKgjRcrZKBKWNsUpzvEaHN Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:26:02 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ Moody Blues singer Justin Hayward announces Forever Autumn tour for October ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/moody-blues-singer-justin-hayward-announces-forever-autumn-tour-for-october aYPqmnSmbBU7zB7vV6soya Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:05:42 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ “A really painful song about how hard it is to lose friends. When I sing it, I think of John Belushi”: We asked Blues Brothers star Dan Aykroyd to give us his 11 favourite blues records, and he delivered ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/dan-aykroyd-favorite-blues-albums 8f942CB57HJjGLQ9h6YTbN Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:00:30 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ “You only get caught when you’re successful”: Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on the time Willie Dixon came calling for his Whole Lotta Love songwriting credit ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-time-willie-dixon-sued-led-zep ASQdbPMcwAdfmybWCVHtV3 Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It just seemed like another really good way to bring people together": How Slash re-electrified the blues for the hard times ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/slash-orgy-of-the-damned-serpent-tour maQbkBJi2ZwesFBGVsw4Af Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:54:05 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Rush, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Heart, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Chuck D and more jamming on Robert Johnson's blues classic Crossroads in 2013 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/watch-chris-cornell-rush-dave-grohl-heart-jam-on-robert-johnsons-crossroads kLekpc7TvbMgq9urMQgvja Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:05:31 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ The decade the blues mutated: A beginners' guide to 80s blues in 10 essential albums ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/essential-1980s-blues-albums SYTei5BhAGE4aKBkjSpMmB Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:40:28 +0000 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 01:36:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The combination of music and sex was something I had never encountered in any other group”: How the Rolling Stones married sex, blues and rock’n’roll and launched themselves to notoriety ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/rolling-stones-blues-roots-early-1960s e5wK6mNEiof7BTgC3fAWWN Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:14:56 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:47 +0000 <![CDATA[ "He was trying to numb the past, dull the present and look for comfort in the future. He found it there and it killed him": Dan Aykroyd on the tragedy of John Belushi and the making of The Blues Brothers ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-blues-brothers VqHZNDpLbwTWbixb6ZpMzk Wed, 01 Jan 2025 03:29:45 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We weren’t ready to go into the studio… we got the feeling the label didn’t care about us any more”: Despite an uneasy line-up change, a lawsuit and no idea about singles, the Moody Blues returned to superstardom with Long Distance Voyager ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/moody-blues-long-distance-voyager 3dKgyjVVfj7LTmFv45VKcC Sun, 29 Dec 2024 07:32:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:45 +0000 <![CDATA[ David Lee Roth continues to move in mysterious ways with new blues song Forgiveness ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/david-lee-roth-forgiveness MUNT4saDn4xeqhMqfJZtTE Wed, 25 Dec 2024 23:20:26 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ Mick Fleetwood and Jake Shimabukuro share a broad definition of the blues on collaborative album ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/mick-fleetwood-and-jake-shimabukuro-blues-experience cX5u7dER7m65kRiAdcoLoU Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:09:54 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ Von Hertzen Brothers spoof Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues in new Ascension Day video ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/von-hertzen-brothers-spoof-bob-dylans-subterranean-homesick-blues-in-new-ascension-day-video DBZaRZHVukjgC94sbVjwza Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:36:27 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:56 +0000 <![CDATA[ The sounds that shaped rock'n'roll: A brief history of the Mississippi saxophone ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/history-of-the-harmonica imEEKFtXp4rynJCY2iiFEo Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:07:07 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Rock music is so dominated by all-male bands so it feels cool to have a super-pregnant lead singer on the cover": Blues Pills have finally made exactly the album they wanted ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/blues-pills-birthday-interview EjxDFaLkAMBohAz2MX33vY Thu, 22 Aug 2024 03:18:54 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We're taught to be ashamed of our accent and where we're from": Meet Big Special, the Black Country duo blending the blues, hip-hop and rock with beautiful fury ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/big-special-postindustrial-hometown-blues hDxJr4hMvmXei55M7mhzN3 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:53:38 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ “A fine overview of the label’s underground credentials… unclassifiable obscurities abound”: History of Deram (and Decca) celebrated in Psych! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues box set ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/pysch-british-prog-rock-folk-blues-deram RbnhfD92u9jmQrBVfTnckJ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:03:42 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Simmering tension ensures that the album comes with a few genuinely jaw-dropping moments": Blues Pills explore their demons on Birthday ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/blues-pills-birthday 2XyfLQaregP8eDAWE2wkfS Fri, 02 Aug 2024 04:13:37 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ Mick Fleetwood is releasing a blues album with "the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele" ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/mick-fleetwood-jake-shimabukuro 7BKJadTdsg87cCwi3zVu9K Wed, 24 Jul 2024 23:21:33 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Keep on playing the blues somewhere": British blues legend John Mayall dead at 90 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/john-mayall-dead-at-90 kCgtNuEgarKcxZ9k3BV2jh Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:12:04 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ A guide to harmonica blues in five essential albums ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/harmonica-blues-essential-albums Vo6DXcWCsW2Drd4cufnoMf Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:20:29 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The album took off like a rocket ship. It sold 100,000 right away, it was the biggest Muddy Waters album to date”: how Chess Records and Muddy Waters invented psychedelic blues with Electric Mud ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/chess-records-muddy-waters-electric-mud-psychedelic-blues 2RXTy6Rby2TCDeW9LiTGuV Sat, 22 Jun 2024 16:41:24 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I started laughing, because he is the best": Watch unseen footage of late guitar icons Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West backstage and jamming ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/eddie-van-halen-leslie-west-jam wCsTJiGcuYFqpMQMqCpjUY Wed, 05 Jun 2024 02:04:53 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I get that people are trying to keep the blues alive, but to me it feels super-limiting": Six things you need to know about Troy Redfern ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/troy-redfern-six-things CxVXSSTN5gHcRdAHfXPiak Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:15:12 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Elles Bailey, Cactus and more ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/tracks-of-the-week-june-3-2024 SFfwQKsLYSrPoutHgjTNGC Mon, 03 Jun 2024 05:32:50 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Lots of careers have been made from regurgitating the same record. If I'd made millions, I'd be making jazz records": A spiky interview with Gary Moore ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/gary-moore-old-new-ballads-blues EMEQWNeFFZp7w3CF3UxN5j Tue, 21 May 2024 07:22:45 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ “She’s had her share of missteps in life.” Slash explains why he invited Demi Lovato to appear on his new blues record ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/slash-demi-lovato-collaboration CKbqriQAuLNX5Qjkq9w6hT Wed, 15 May 2024 22:24:27 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Ten Years After are still partying like it's 1967 even though it's 1971": Ten Years After discover a glitch in the blues rock matrix on A Space In Time ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/ten-years-after-a-space-in-time 6xrychaZ9RosyLFBtt7c3Y Sun, 12 May 2024 23:38:42 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We didn’t want to be some huge rock’n’roll band. We wanted to make music for the people”: the inside story of Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun, the classic album that changed the course of stoner rock ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/we-didnt-want-to-be-some-huge-rocknroll-band-we-wanted-to-make-music-for-the-people-the-inside-story-of-kyuss-blues-for-the-red-sun-the-classic-album-that-changed-the-course-of-stoner-rock bKs37qkrsvdwh36B9Kma48 Sat, 11 May 2024 19:00:05 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I think the blues can be very beneficial on a medicinal level": Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks pick the blues albums that are good for your health ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/susan-tedeschi-derek-trucks-blues-albums zT2xuHW6D7U88VhhZSiG86 Wed, 08 May 2024 04:48:59 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:47 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It's the Devil's Music - Hide your kids' stuff!" How Slash made the blues sound like a party again – only in the new issue of Classic Rock ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/slash-orgy-of-the-damned-classic-rock UZqrTBe4sdhRXPoKUHYgwS Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:48:23 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ Moody Blues founding member Mike Pinder dead at 82 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/moody-blues-founding-member-mike-pinder-dead-at-82 W6Q3zRAkXhVLN4iLpYpjwA Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:26:44 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Bill Fisher, Demon and more ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/tracks-of-the-april-22-2024 aX7hTQidGGuZo2r4pHVEWa Mon, 22 Apr 2024 04:34:15 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ "At the end, Jimmy says to me: 'I want you in my band'. I say: 'But I've got a maths exam in the morning!'": Rick Wakeman, and the blues records that changed his life ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/rick-wakeman-and-the-blues 9GzHakspnQpKhXPbTMZU4e Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:05:37 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:47 +0000 <![CDATA[ "This man said, ‘I’ve brought my wife for a night out and you’re the worst band I’ve seen in my life. You’re crap.’” How the Moody Blues finally came good with Days Of Future Passed ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/this-man-said-ive-brought-my-wife-for-a-night-out-and-youre-the-worst-band-ive-seen-in-my-life-youre-crap-how-the-moody-blues-finally-came-good-with-days-of-future-passed mzPVgcxwM4Lf7J26MLsXBa Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:48:11 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ Slash announces all-star S.E.R.P.E.N.T. touring blues festival with Warren Haynes, Samantha Fish, Eric Gales, Larkin Poe and more ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/slash-announces-serpent-bluesfest k767ckHWqC4dTSnwpu2vyc Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:32:01 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Tuk Smith, Pain and more ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/tracks-of-the-week-march-11-2024 o84mozrgfGYuSkd4Ypqkjn Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:40:30 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He told me I was like a shaman onstage. I reminded him of Jim Morrison”: Carlos Santana once wanted to start a delta blues band… with Gavin Rossdale from Bush ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/carlos-santana-gavin-rossdale-bush-blues-band mBzkC7n4JHh2J3KHiBNBVC Sat, 09 Mar 2024 12:00:04 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ “As boldly baroque as anything The Moody Blues or The Nice had at that point constructed… but perhaps it hasn’t aged gracefully”: Procul Harum’s vinyl reissue of Shine On Brightly is still fascinating ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/procol-harum-shine-on-brightly-vinyl-reissue wVjji88JshykniAcFEubME Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:11:25 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ “John Bonham said rock and blues wasn’t a good place for girls. He wanted me to be a vet or a lawyer… for a while I went down the opera route”: Despite her brother’s misgivings, Genesis helped shape Deborah Bonham’s career ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/deborah-bonham-genesis-john-bonham msofcGFacAHsKNfCbSq3uF Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:33:37 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I came home from school and learned all the sounds, and learned all the songs note for note. I could just relate to it somehow": How the blues galvanised Gary Moore ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/gary-moore-blues N4eSh98bcJvzvRVxUxftni Tue, 06 Feb 2024 01:10:43 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Isn’t it the best when you get into a band and they happen to have so much material to discover?” Yes’ Jon Davison fell in love with the Moody Blues by falling in love with John Lodge’s daughter ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/jon-davison-yes-moody-blues g9WBdWDeKL2bQvDc6z74tV Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:40:01 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Led Zeppelin played to a crowd of 150,000, but no-one on the bill was looking for a big break or even a record deal": How 60s' music festivals turned a generation of blues aficionados into the first rock stars ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/60s-music-festivals 59CBrDVfx7niEU6iPNmJQA Mon, 22 Jan 2024 04:46:30 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We were the original bearded pirates. Nobody gave us a chance”: the epic story of how Whitesnake became the greatest blues rock band of the early 80s ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/whitesnake-early-years-david-coverdale-blues-rock NstZS98xigxnr75M5mcjDd Sun, 21 Jan 2024 08:00:50 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We treated them like a bunch of hairy blues wankers… I wish we’d had the sales Eliminator had!” How British synth-pop duo OMD unwittingly set ZZ Top on the path to mega-stardom ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-omd-set-zz-top-on-the-path-to-mega-stardom 9PBRMuQC7TN2wZxNSkFprH Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:55:11 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ Long John Baldry helped found the British blues scene, inspired Eric Clapton, discovered Rod Stewart, and gave his name to Elton John: He was also the voice of Sonic The Hedgehog's Dr Ivo Robotnik ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-of-long-john-baldry g4avgosejP2kMcNh5tkuK9 Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:35:16 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ Six New Orleans blues albums you should definitely own ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/new-orleans-blues-best-albums zXhiCEVRHBhDfGQGpbBjJW Wed, 03 Jan 2024 04:02:28 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:45 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch teenage Irish country blues sensation Muireann Bradley cover When The Levee Breaks ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/muireann-bradley-blues-teenager 6Xuf9qVrfEq7VUYQTC5bpW Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:52:55 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:55 +0000