You know I like sweet blues I want to be singing I want to be sweet said music legend Mike Bloomfield of his searing lyrical guitar playing His awesome instrumental prowess is on full display in ...

We’re celebrating 50 years of “Saturday Night Live“! All this week, we’re digging into the late-night comedy institution with ...

The following is adapted from “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic,” published March 19 by Atlantic Monthly Press.

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical crime comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from "The ...

The festival co-founders intended to celebrate and preserve the blues while giving these artists their due. “That's also one of the reasons why I really wanted to make the film was because of ...

After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin" (Kathleen Freeman), the last of the nuns who raised them in an orphanage. They learn the Archdiocese ...

It's something that's very present. And, you know, blues music is often called the devil's music. The film is in conversation with all of those things.” Filmmakers like the Coen brothers ...

Mike Figgis' film examines the circumstances of this vibrant period. Figgis himself participated, albeit in a minor way, in this period of history, playing in a blues band with Bryan Ferry ...