Roy Rogers: King of the Console (Production, That Is)
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, March 1999
IT'S NIGHT TIME and a yellow moon is up over nearby Mexico. There are perhaps 20,000 people jammed into a cordoned off section of San Diego's ...

Peter Green: The Man of the World Returns
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, July 1999
THERE IS A FILM from the late 1960s called The Hallucination Generation that purports to be, as the poster declared, the "Shocking Story of a Generation ...

Steve Cropper
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, January 2001
GUITAR HEROES come cloaked in the mystique of the iconic loner. We call them guitar-slingers because they are like western heroes who ride into town alone, ...

Buddy Guy: A Bluesman for All Seasons
Profile and Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, January 2001
FOR THE SOUTHERN rail traveler, The City of New Orleans runs from the Crescent City on the Gulf up through the Mississippi state capitol of Jackson ...

The Lion in Winter: Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, January 2002
IT IS 10:15 on a Saturday morning, and I am banging on a motel room door in San Juan Capistrano, having driven down from Los Angeles ...

B.B. King: Reflections
Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, August 2003
B.B. KING ALREADY had a career dating back 20 years - first playing to chitlin circuit audiences and then at the Fillmores and other psychedelic palaces ...

Buddy Guy Brings It All Back Home
Report and Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, January 2004
LEGEND HAS IT that when novelist William Faulkner, who sometimes did hack work in Hollywood, was writing the screenplay for Land of the Pharaohs, he asked ...

North Mississippi Allstars: The Real Deal
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, Spring 2005
EVEN GOOD BANDS play bad shows. Equipment malfunctions, guitars don't stay in tune, somebody has a cold or a hellacious hangover. Maybe the vibe is just ...

Eric Burdon's Good Intentions (Don't Let Them be Misunderstood!)
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, May 2006
THERE'S NO ESCAPING the formative years. Just ask Eric Burdon. As an 11-year-old, he had an audience with Louis Armstrong. Three years later, he helped Big ...

The Return of Jeremy Spencer
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, October 2006
This the complete interview with (ex-Fleetwood Mac) Jeremy Spencer. The edited version will be published by Blues Revue in October ...

Clifford Antone: 1949-2006
Obituary by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, October 2006
CLIFFORD ANTONE liked to say he was "the blues in Austin." He was and then some. From 1975, when he opened his namesake club, until his ...

Remembering Robert Lockwood Jr.
Obituary by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, February 2007
WHEN ROBERT LOCKWOOD JR. passed away at age 91 on Nov. 21, the obituaries in the major daily press made much of his connection to legendary ...

North Mississippi Allstars: Still Hollerin' 10 Years On
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, June 2007
IT'S 4:15 A.M., the desert sky is as dark as a card shark's heart, and the North Mississippi Allstars are on their way to McCarran International ...