Driftwood by Weary Ramblers For Iowa duo Weary Ramblers, music isn’t just what they do — it’s how they stay connected in a world that often demands too much from body and spirit. Their new studio album, Driftwood, released October of last year, is a portrait of two artists who have found sanctuary in their […]
Iowa blues music
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Rush Cleveland, elder statesman of Iowa blues, will celebrate a banner year in Cedar Falls Saturday before competing in the International Blues Challenge
At every step in roughly six decades of making music, Rush Cleveland’s remained true to himself. He doesn’t use a setlist, preferring instead to read the audience and go with his gut. And he’s a living encyclopedia of American music — “From Muddy to Merle and all points in between,” he likes to say. Yet […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Kevin ‘B.F.’ Burt, International Blues Challenge champion, reflects on Iowa’s rich blues history
Kevin “B.F.” Burt is unstoppable. Burt was the second Iowan to win an award at the festival, the first Iowan to win in the Solo/Duo category and the first artist in the festival’s 34-year history to sweep the solo categories—he also won the Solo/Duo Cigar Box Guitar Award for most promising acoustic player and the Lee Oskar Harmonica Award.
