Legendary Chicago blues man Lonnie Brooks, along with his son Wayne Brooks, performs a few numbers and talks about the evolution of blues music and what it's like to still perform at age 75. Hear the ...

Four weeks after moving to Chicago, a 22-year-old Joanna Connor approached blues giant Lonnie Brooks at a club on the North Side. That encounter kicked off her 35-year career as one of the most ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Paul Natkin Ronnie Baker Brooks grew up in the blues. His father Lonnie Brooks was a ...

Brooks is the headliner at the first Urbana Blues, Brews and BBQ Festival, which takes place June 28 in the parking lot at Lincoln Square Village in Urbana. Also set to perform are Tab Benoit, Bernard ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Enamored of the blues, Lonnie Brooks remembers risking it all as a young boy so he could stay up all night with his guitar-playing cousin in Louisiana, listening to the songs of ...

The 57-year-old singer-songwriter is the son of Lonnie Brooks, a legend of Chicago blues music who originally hailed from Louisiana. The senior Brooks, who died in 2017, appeared in the sequel film ...

This columnist was sad to hear the great Chicago Bluesman -- Lonnie Brooks-- died April 1. I had the pleasure of working with Lonnie during the early 1990s at a now defunct Highland blues club called ...

When Ronnie Baker Brooks sings “Blues in My DNA.,” he’s telling the truth. The four-time Chicago Blues Festival headliner is the son of the late Lonnie Brooks, a legendary musician who discovered the ...