Living Blues

Living Blues is an American music magazine that deals with the history and the musicians of the blues.

Living Blues was founded in Chicago in 1970 by seven blues fans and is the oldest and most important blues magazine in the United States. One of them was Bruce Iglauer, the later founder of Alligator Records. In 1971 she became the property of Jim O'Neil and Amy van Singel, also two founders, over which were also active as a publisher. Among the authors of the journal include major Blue journalists like Jim O'Neal, one of the founders of the magazine, Barry Lee Pearson, David Whiteis or Scott Barretta. Each issue brings news from the Blue World, a "Breaking out" section on emerging artists and an extensive review section on new CDs, DVDs and books from the world of the blues.

In 1983, the magazine of the University of Mississippi was acquired and has since been published in two monthly intervals by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Since 2003, the magazine is sponsoring the Blue Today! Symposium, held on the campus of the University in the spring. Speakers were among the other leading Blue authors Paul Oliver, Samuel Charters and Bill Ferris, but also concerts of David Honeyboy Edwards, for example, Little Milton and BB King are part of the event. 2009, the magazine was honored by the state of Mississippi with a blackboard on the Mississippi Blues Trail. In addition, she also received the " Keeping the Blues Alive Award" of the Blue Foundation, the non-musicians honored for services to the blues, as they received acceptance into the Blues Hall of Fame (Category: Classics of Blues Literature) 1982.

Since 1993, the newspaper also awards the " Living Blues Award", a music prize, the winners will be, on the other hand the one hand determined by public voting by critics choice. In the forty years of its existence, the magazine grew from a thin black and white magazine to a 128 -page magazine in four-color printing, which sets the standards for Bluesmagazine world.

• Absolutely the best blues publication available, and in fact one of the best specialized music magazines of any kind. "- All Music Guide
• " Living Blues what the first magazine to notice me and they've done the same for other artists. If it was not for the magazine, we would not be near as visible. "- Bobby Rush
• "A true blues addict needs a blues fix, and I'm one of synthesis people. I get my news from Living Blues. "- Eddy Clearwater