The Double Door Inn’s, Charlotte’s longest running live music venue hosted its last concert on Monday. The Monday Night All-Stars played to a sold-out crowd as people packed the small club to bid farewell to the 43-year-old venue. Actually, most of the shows were sold out for the last week as longtime fans and others […]

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Clay, known for blues songs like "Trying to Live My Life Without You" and "The Only Way is Up," died after suffering a heart attack

Nevada officials have announced an investigation into the death of B.B. King as a possible homicide. King’s daughters Patty King and Karen Williams allege his aides poisoned him, though police will not launch a formal investigation unless the coroner finds the death was by other than natural causes. King died May 14. His longtime agent […]

Blues and what is known commercially as Black Gospel are inextricably connected.  Blues music first emerged in the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont Southeast, Texas and Appalachia, around the turn of the twentieth century. Thomas Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) who would become known as “the father of black gospel music” had been a leading […]

In light of our friends struggling around the world with the earthquakes and tsunami’s here is the song comfort. Our prayers are with you.