Exploring the Home of the Blues

Buddy Guy Gives Tour of Chicago Music History: Exploring the Home of the Blues, the Chicago Blues Audio Tour narrated by Chicago-local Buddy Guy has found an astonishing audience in just six months.

The podcast has been downloaded more than 97,000 times and is currently averaging over 1,000 downloads per day. The free, 50-minute tour combines an interactive map, tour stop directions, archival photos, video, music clips, and interviews – a true multimedia experience unlike anything else available.

Listeners are able to follow the tour either by downloading to a portable media player or by virtually experiencing Chicago on a home computer. The Chicago Blues Tour is free and can be downloaded at www.downloadchicagotours.com.

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Willie Dixon gets his day in Vicksburg

It’s been a long time coming, but Willie Dixon gets his day in his hometown of Vicksburg, Mississippi on Thursday of this week with a jam session in his honor, a marker and a mural…all celebrating his life and music. The festivities begin at 3:00pm when the Mississippi Blues Commission will unveil the Willie Dixon Mississippi Blues Trail Marker. The trail is a collection of more than 100 historical markers and interpretive sites throughout the state to recognize Mississippi's blues heritage. The celebration will finish up with a Willie Dixon tribute jam session.

Carey Bell dead at 70 of heart failure

Blues harmonica master Carey Bell died on May 6, 2007 of heart failure in his hometown of Chicago, IL. He was 70. Bell - the 1998 winner of the Blues Music Award for Traditional Male Artist Of The Year - was a veteran of both Muddy Waters' and Willie Dixon's bands as well as an award-winning solo artist, and a guest artist on countless blues recordings. Bell's classic, funky and deeply soulful blues place him firmly on the short list of blues harmonica superstars.