Despite a recent double health scare, artist Henry Gray has vowed to keep playing the blues music he’s loved since he was a child in north Baton Rouge. Following surgery for a collapsed lung, Gray, 92 ...

Clay Swafford would spend an hour at a time working on just the left-hand patterns. Listening to tracks from blues albums again and again, trying to learn by-ear the hip-shaking boogie-woogie-style of ...