Born Michael John Robillard in Woonsocket in 1948, he founded Roomful Of Blues with pianist Al Copley in Westerly in 1967.

Taking a modern, aggressive approach to the old school blues format ... R&B Act at the 2011 Worcester (MA) Music Awards, won the 2011 Boston (MA) Blues Challenge and are now headed to Memphis ...

The music world and its fans saw plenty of heartbreak and tragedy in January with at least 20 notable musicians having lost ...

Drink Small is an iconic blues musician known as the 'blues doctor' who plays a style of guitar called "Piedmont Blues." The ...

His mother died when he was four years old and his father ... focus turned to music. As the friendship grew, they spent many hours listening to R&B and rock, especially blues guitar.

Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now 90-year-old innovator of Jamaican music—this ...

After moving in together in 2021, the three best friends discovered that their new home was a century-old school house — inspiring the name and giving them a dedicated space to create. They were ...

While their lasting presence in music results from myriad factors ... the idea was simply to perform old-school blues tracks. Indeed, for the first few years of their existence, The Rolling Stones’ ...

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, whom I was fortunate enough to interview and is now in his 90s, told me that he was playing in the ...

One of the South Shore’s best-known local groups performs in their hometown tonight, but under the guise of a slightly ...