At Shove Chapel this past Sunday, Otis Taylor introduced Alvin Youngblood Hart as one of the greatest bluesmen alive today — an accolade that could just as easily apply to himself.
It's not often that a Grammy-winning artist plays a performance space as intimate as Marmalade at Smokebrush, so if you haven't yet gotten tickets to see Alvin Youngblood Hart there Saturday...
Six weeks after the loss of John-Alex Mason, the local bluesman's legacy continues on in a new program to introduce people to the art form he championed.
One of the joys of writing Reverb is the opportunity to focus on what's right about the local music scene. But sometimes things go wrong, and tragically so.
Last night, we caught up with John-Alex Mason at Front Range Barbeque, where the local bluesman and his band were celebrating the release of his sixth album, Jook Joint Thunderclap.