Steve Byrne

Sandra Hall has graduated from her grandmother’s fish fries to blues queen in waiting.

He took his father’s nickname and his act to Chicago. Today, Son Seals is an inspiration to jam bands and crime novelists.

With Otis Rush and Buddy Guy, Eddy Clearwater was one of Chicago’s young blues sluggers in the ’60s. So why is an Indian headdress his lucky charm?

Restless bluesman Carl Weathersby hasn’t let his punch go soft.