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At 88 years old, Buddy Guy is still going strong. While the guitar legend may have retired from touring last year, he’s still making new music and was just added to the final show of this spring’s “Experience Hendrix” tour.

As previously reported, the upcoming run of the “Experience Hendrix” tour will kick off March 11th in Cincinnati and feature such guitarists as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Zakk Wylde, Eric Johnson, Devon Allman, Samantha Fish, and more playing Jimi Hendrix songs. Now, Buddy Guy has signed on to perform at the tour’s closing date at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on April 12th, with tickets to that show and the entire outing available here.

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“Thank you to the Hendrix Tour family for bringing me back to perform at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta on April 12,” stated Guy, whom the late Jimi Hendrix cited as an influence.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has revealed its 2025 lineup featuring Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, hometown hero Lil Wayne with The Roots, Lenny Kravitz, Kacey Musgraves, John Fogerty, Luke Combs, Santana, and Burna Boy as headliners.

Other notable acts set to play include Haim, Cage the Elephant, My Morning Jacket, Goose, Laufey, Gladys Knight, Patti Labelle, Kamasi Washington, Banda Ms, The Wailers featuring Julian Marley, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Cheap Trick, Trombone Short & Orleans Avenue, Harry Connick Jr., The Revivalists, Margo Price, Irma Thomas, Tank and The Bangas, Branford Marsalis, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Maze Honoring Frankie Beverly “The Legacy Band”, Morris Day & the Time, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Hurray for the Riff Raff, James Bay, Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Cyril Neville, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, James Bay, Dumpstaphunk, The Radiators, Samantha Fish, Anders Osborne, Kenny Wayne Shepherd with Bobby Rush, Terence Blanchard, and more.

The Experience Hendrix tour is returning for a Spring 2025 North American outing.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Zakk Wylde will reprise their prior Experience Hendrix appearances, joining a handful of other guitarists and singers in paying tribute to the music of the great Jimi Hendrix. The trek launches March 11th in Cincinnati and runs through April 12th in Atlanta.

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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale for select dates begins Thursday (November 14th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Beats. General ticket sales Friday (November 15th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

“I’m excited to be a part of the Experience Hendrix Tour again,” stated Shepherd in a press release. “This tour always offers fans a unique opportunity to see artists from multiple genres of music all honoring the great Jimi Hendrix. The diversity of the artists that take part every year only goes...

Slash has unleashed his new blues album, Orgy of the Damned, featuring contributions from Demi Lovato, Iggy Pop, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, Chris Stapleton, Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons, and more.

Along with releasing the new album today (May 17th), Slash unveiled the music video for his cover of The Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” featuring powerhouse vocals by Lovato. The song is the third single from the LP, following a version of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor” (featuring Johnson on vocals and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler on harmonica) and a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well” (featuring Stapleton).

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Another album highlight is a rendition of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “Awful Dream” with lead vocals by the godfather of punk himself, Iggy Pop. “Iggy came to my studio in L.A., and we just sat down, he was on one stool, and I was on another,...

The Experience Hendrix Tour, the all-star tribute to guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, is returning for its first outing in five years with a Fall 2024 US run.

Dates kick off September 19th in Hendrix’s hometown of Seattle and run through October 19th in St. Augustine, Florida. Other stops include Spokane, Reno, Las Vegas, San Diego, Houston, Tulsa, and Nashville.

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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale for select dates begins Thursday (April 25th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Riff. General ticket sales start Friday (April 26th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

The Experience Hendrix Tour brings together some of the best active guitarists and vocalists from the worlds of rock and blues for an evening celebrating the...

Slash has unveiled the latest single from his upcoming blues album, Orgy of the Damned, set to arrive on May 17th. The Guns N’ Roses guitarist teams up with country superstar Chris Stapleton on a cover of Fleetwood’s Mac’s “Oh Well.”

The freewheeling guitar playing from Slash and the raspy vocal delivery from Stapleton add a gritty vibe to Fleetwood Mac’s original 1969 song, a bluesy garage number that was penned and sung by singer-guitarist Peter Green.

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Slash said of the song in a press release, “So, this is the original Fleetwood Mac, which was founded by Peter Green, one of the greatest singer-songwriter-guitar players, he’s less known in the public, but very well known to us guitar players re the 60s British blues and he’s up there with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Mick Taylor. He sort of had a misadventure...

Slash has announced the lineup and tour dates for a traveling blues festival dubbed S.E.R.P.E.N.T.

The trek will see the Guns N’ Roses guitarist sharing the bill with a rotating cast of modern blues and blues-adjacent icons such as Warren Haynes Band, Keb’ ‘Mo, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Robert Randolph, Samantha Fish, Eric Gales, Zz Ward, Jackie Venson, and Larkin Poe.

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The trek kicks off July 5th in Bonner, Montana, and runs through August 17th in Grand Prairie, Texas. In between, the tour hits cities including Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Toronto, Boston, New York, Atlanta, and Huntsville.

A Live Nation ticket pre-sale for select dates begins Wednesday (March 13th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Key. General ticket sales start Friday (March 15th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub,...

Slash and some of his famous friends will celebrate the blues this summer on the Guns N’ Roses guitarist’s upcoming touring S.E.R.P.E.N.T. festival. In addition to Slash, who recently announced a new album, the lineup will variously include the Warren Haynes Band, Keb’ ‘Mo, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Robert Randolph, Samantha Fish, Eric Gales, Zz Ward, Jackie Venson, and Larkin Poe, depending on the night.

The tour, which kicks off in Montana in July, will help raise money to fight racism and fight for civil rights.

It’s late afternoon in the back of the Princess Theatre in downtown Decatur, Alabama. Sitting in front of a brightly-lit mirror in the green room of the historic venue, blues-rocker Samantha Fish is readying herself for the show alongside her musical-partner-in-crime of late, Jesse Dayton. The duo is in the midst of a whirlwind tour for their album Death Wish Blues.

“The blues speaks to people of all generations at different times in their life — it’s just kind of your soul,” Fish tells Rolling Stone backstage. “Watching a great [blues] band,...

Welcome To Our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, J-Hope teams up with J. Cole, Boygenius release another great song from their upcoming album, Kali Uchis unfurls a sweet slow jam, and De La Soul finally hit the streams.

J-Hope feat. J. Cole “On the Street” (YouTube)

Boygenius, “Not Strong Enough” (YouTube)

Kali Uchis, “Love Between …” (YouTube)

SG5, “Firetruck” (YouTube)

Nicki Minaj, “Red Ruby Da Sleeze” (YouTube)

Young Nudy feat. Key Glock, “Pot Roast” (YouTube)

Young Scooter feat.

This review of “Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story” was first published March 13, 2022, after premiering at the SXSW Film Festival.

Anybody who’s been to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival could tell you that the hardest part of making a movie about the annual event, which takes up two weekends in late April and early May in the Crescent City, would have to be fitting it all in.

Jazz Fest, after all, showcases 7,000 musicians on 14 stages over eight days in a city whose homegrown music is a gumbo made up of every style and sound that came up through the Gulf of Mexico, down the Mississippi River or through the delta to the east and the swamps to the west of the city. The festival is gloriously overwhelming, an embarrassment of riches that forces you to pick and choose and be open to surprises any time the wind changes...

Let’s not mince words: “Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story” is a high-stepping, hand-waving, spirit-lifting gas. Co-directors Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern, with the invaluable assistance of editor Martin Singer, have fashioned an infectiously exuberant overview of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Big Easy’s unique and enormous celebration of its music, cuisine and multiculturalism, by combining their own footage of performances and interviews at the 50th iteration of the star-studded annual event — the last before Covid-19 forced cancelation of the 2000 and 2001 editions — and archival footage dating back to the festival’s earliest days.

Those days might have begun earlier, fest co-founder George Wein reveals during an interview conducted before his 2021 passing, if he had accepted a 1962 invitation by locals to establish the New Orleans equivalent of his Newport Jazz Festival. But no, Wein, a white guy married to a Black woman, didn’t see how a...

No American city is as steeped in native musical lore and legacy as is New Orleans and you get a good feeling for how that came about in Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story. It’s a documentary overflowing with performers and music that still barely begins to scratch the surface of what’s gone on musically for ages in the fabled, oft-distressed city. Music fans of assorted persuasions will be delighted with the samples served up here, although the subject is so vast and varied that something like a six or ten-hour miniseries would be required to begin to do it justice. With Sony Pictures Classics handling the U.S. release starting May 13 after it SXSW bow, the film is certain to get a nice lift-off and extensive exposure on home tubes is assured.

“Life is happening at a high frequency” when the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival takes place,...

Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story Trailer — Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern‘s Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) movie trailer has been released by Sony Pictures Classics. The Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story stars Glen David Andrews, Tab Benoit, Jimmy Buffett, Gary Clark Jr., Quint Davis, Samantha Fish, Al Green, and [...]

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The Peach Music Festival, the annual music-and-camping gathering inspired by the Allman Brothers Band, has announced its 2022 lineup. Billy Strings, the Black Crowes, the Trey Anastasio Band, and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead will headline the four-day fest set for June 30 through July 3 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This marks the second installment of the Peach since the 2020 edition was canceled by the pandemic.

The 2022 lineup is a particularly eclectic mix, nodding not just to the Allmans’ jam rock and blues that highlighted past Peach Fests, but including a number of country,...

The annual Allman Family Revival tribute concert to Gregg Allman has grown into a three-city tour this year that will hit San Francisco, Denver and New York City in December. The lineup includes the Allman Betts Band, Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander, Robert Randolph, Todd Park Mohr of Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Jimmy Hall, Samantha Fish, Jimmy Vivino and more to be announced. (Not every artist will appear at every show.)

The shows will take place December 7th at San Francisco’s The Fillmore, the following day at Denver...

Anders Osborne mixes Big Easy groove with California cool on Buddha and the Blues, his newest collection of greasy roots-rock. Recorded an hour outside of Los Angeles with SoCal icons like guitarist Waddy Watchel and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench, the album hits a high-water mark with “Running,” an anthem for the directionless.

“It’s a dialogue about the endless chasing of things that have no spiritual meaning to me,” says Osborne, who wrote the song back home in New Orleans before recording it with producer (and frequent Neil Young collaborator) Chad Cromwell.

The final group of artists slated to perform during the annual AmericanaFest in Nashville have been revealed, with Amanda Shires, Tyler Childers and Rosanne Cash joining the annual music festival’s lineup.

This year’s edition of the six-day festival will also include showcases by Birdtalker, Buddy Miller, Chris Shiflett, Elizabeth Cook, Paul Cauthen, Richard Thompson, the Lone Bellow and many more. They’ll join a vibrant list of previously announced Americana-friendly singer-songwriters and bands like Brandy Clark, American Aquarium, John Prine, Milk Carton Kids, Ashley Monroe, Jim Lauderdale, Asleep at the Wheel,...