American Blues musician Lurrie Bell performs on the Front Porch Stage at the 30th Annual Chicago Blues Festival, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, June 9, 2013. (Photo by Linda Vartoogian/Getty Images) ...

The musical line up of Chicago blues legend Lurrie Bell, Seth Walker and Walter Wolfman Washington was a definite draw to the inaugural Bayou District Blues Night, June 24 at the Civic Theatre. Hosted ...

Blues performers have long defied the judgment of the pious in the pews and the skepticism of the rowdies in the barrooms to take the steps and bridge the gulf. Guitarist and singer Lurrie Bell, the ...

Lurrie Bell is on a blues journey that started early, divined by fate, fueled by spiritual and secular forces, beaten and scarred by unfathomable tragedy and heartbreaking illness, finally finding ...

Lurrie Bell, son of legendary blues harpist Carey Bell, has been immersed in the blues for as long as he can remember. He first recalls picking up a guitar during one of his father’s rehearsals when ...

As the son of harmonica legend Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell grew up in a West Side Chicago household filled with blues royalty that included Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Eddie Taylor. By the time Lurrie ...

Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Life is good for Chicago bluesman Lurrie Bell. The singer and guitarist was recently nominated for three Blues Music Awards, and his latest album is riding up the blues charts. As VOA's Doug Levine ...

Blues music is quite literally in Lurrie Bell’s blood. Bell, who will headline the Magic Bag’s Anti-Freeze Blues Festival on Friday, was surrounded by giants of the Chicago blues scene from an early ...