Big Dave McLean With Better the Devil You Know Dave continues to set an example for new generations of musicians by constantly evolving his sound, embracing new artistic collaborations and making records that just keep getting better and better. Along the way, there have been career highs: opening for his idol, Muddy Waters; earning two WCMAs, a Prairie Music Award, a Whisky Award and countless Maple Blues honours – including the Blues with Feeling (Lifetime Achievement) Awar

The harmonica wizard from Coralville, Iowa, a brassy blues band out of Houston, a Brazil-born guitar master, and a 21-year-old "wunderkind." These are the acts that rose to the top of the pack at The Blues Foundation's 34th annual International Blues Challenge Awards ceremony, which took place at Memphis' historic Orpheum Theatre on Saturday, January 20. Kevin "B.F." Burt was the big man of the evening as the bluesman representing the Central Iowa Blues Society, picking up th

John William Payne -- better known as "Sunshine Sonny" Payne -- the longtime host of King Biscuit Time, the award-winning radio show that influenced generations of blues musicians and fans, died Saturday in Helena-West Helena. He was 92. "Sonny was one of the most professional and warm people I have ever met in my life," said Thomas Jacques, assistant director of the Delta Cultural Center in downtown Helena, where Payne's studio was relocated to in the early '90s. "He could b