Video courtesy of John Carey. Thanks John!
Memories of Marc Broussard
Everyone had to start somewhere. For me, Marc Broussard started in the Mid Continent Library in Lees Summit, MO back in 2003.
Youth Blues Jam Report
About 30 people were in the audience when I arrived, a fair showing for a Saturday afternoon. Uncle Billy announced that even more young people were expected to show up and jam…
Don’t Miss the Juke Joint Festival
Every year, blues music lovers gather in Clarksdale, MS, to celebrate the Mississippi Delta’s amazing creative communities at the Juke Joint Festival.
Attention: Bands Needed
Bands are needed to be jam hosts in 2025!
2024 Accomplishments Report
2024 was another successful year for KCBS and we appreciate your support in helping us achieve this success.
Album Reviews
Album Review: California Trap
Andrew Duncanson is the voice and guitarist of the southern Illinois based Kilborn Alley Blues Band. His first solo outing, “California Trap” was just released on Run It Back Records.
Album Review: The World Of Blues Power Vol. 2
Launched in 1968, “The World of…” series showcased a wide variety of the label’s output including classical music, pop, folk, jazz, blues, etc.
Album Review: The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw
The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw is the third album by the blues/rock band Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Its name refers to Elvin Bishop, whose role shifted to lead guitar after Mike Bloomfield departed to form the Electric Flag.
Album Review: Kiln House
This is the first album after the departure of founder Peter Green, and their last album to feature guitarist Jeremy Spencer.
Album Review: Closer to the Bone
Tommy Castro is releasing his 17th album in February, four years after his last one, and two years after he won his second consecutive Blues Music Award…
Album Review: Blues in My DNA
It’s actually quite surprising that a man with Ronnie’s talent would have only released five albums since his debut came out in 1998…
And the winner is…
Thyra Jones !!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS Thyra! You’ve won the cabin for two on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise #42!
Ms. Jones lives in Baltimore, MD, and was very surprised and happy that she won!
The cruise raffle ticket is an annual fundraiser for the KCBS. We will begin selling cruise raffle tickets in May 2025 for the January 2026 LRBC! Thank you for your support.

The winning raffle ticket was drawn on The Blues Kitchen show on KKFI 90.1FM — your community radio station, and your 100,000 watt blowtorch of BLUES! Thank you to Junebug, Sunshine, the Board of Directors and all the ticket sellers, and everyone at KKFI.
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- Willie Mae “Big Mama” ThorntonBy Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the February 1995 Blues News In 1952, Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton recorded a robust and raunchy number with a lot of innuendo and double entendre about a fed-up female who is telling a no-account, libidinous sporting man… Read more: Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton
- Walter “Furry” LewisBy Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the December 1990 Blues News Beale Street, for the first quarter of this century, was one of the roughest and toughest, most rocking and swinging, wide-open streets in the country. It was a close counterpart of Kansas City’s Eighteenth and… Read more: Walter “Furry” Lewis
- Speckled Red & the Dirty DozensBy Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the April 1994 Blues News “Playing at the Dozens” or “Putting in the Dozens” is a folk game in which two or more participants hurl insults and boasts at one another. These highly imaginative and metaphorical comments are… Read more: Speckled Red & the Dirty Dozens
- Sleepy John EstesBy Doyle Pace, originally published in the November 1995 Blues News When the documentary filmmaker David Blumenthal rediscovered Sleepy John Estes in 1962, the former blues great was destitute and living in a tumbled down shack in the middle of a cotton field outside the… Read more: Sleepy John Estes
- Sam “Lightnin’” HopkinsBy Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the April 1990 Blues News The Last of the Old Country Bluesmen Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins was a bluesman who carried on the old country cotton-field style of the early Texas blues. In fact, blues historian Samuel Charters has… Read more: Sam “Lightnin'” Hopkins
- Professor LonghairBy Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the February 1994 Blues News In October of 1993, New Orleans premier music club, Tipitina’s, officially changed its name to Professor Longhair’s Tipitina to honor the legendary piano player, singer, and composer who made the club his home base… Read more: Professor Longhair
- Pink AndersonBy Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the February 1996 KCBS Blues News In the southeastern part of the US, the decline of employment on farms in the decades following the Civil War saw a steady and increasing movement of people from the hinterlands to… Read more: Pink Anderson
- Mississippi John HurtBy Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the Jan. 1996 Blues News A tiny gnome of a man with the countenance of an angel took the stage at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and freaked out the rowdy audience (of mostly young white people) with… Read more: Mississippi John Hurt
- Johnny ShinesBy Doyle M. Pace, originally published in the FMarch 1994 Blues News Johnny Shines was a highly gifted guitar player and a literate and poetic composer of blues lyrics. He was, as well, one of our greatest bluesmen. However, through unfortunate circumstances, he never attained the… Read more: Johnny Shines