American Blues musician Lurrie Bell performs on the Front Porch Stage at the 30th Annual Chicago Blues Festival, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, June 9, 2013. (Photo by Linda Vartoogian/Getty Images) ...

Lurrie Bell is on a blues journey that started early, divined by fate, fueled by spiritual and secular forces, beaten and scarred by unfathomable tragedy and heartbreaking illness, finally finding ...

Blues performers have long defied the judgment of the pious in the pews and the skepticism of the rowdies in the barrooms to take the steps and bridge the gulf. Guitarist and singer Lurrie Bell, the ...

The musical line up of Chicago blues legend Lurrie Bell, Seth Walker and Walter Wolfman Washington was a definite draw to the inaugural Bayou District Blues Night, June 24 at the Civic Theatre. Hosted ...

Lurrie Bell turned 21 on Dec. 13, 1979, at Chicago’s Wise Fools Pub, and he celebrated like the blues guitarist he was. “You sat at the bar,” recalls his father, the great harpist Carey Bell, “and you ...

As the son of harmonica legend Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell grew up in a West Side Chicago household filled with blues royalty that included Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Eddie Taylor. By the time Lurrie ...

NEW HAVEN — If you like Chicago blues, you could go a couple of different routes this week. You could hop on a plane to Chicago, fight traffic and weather, check into a hotel for a night or two and go ...

Chicago’s Carey Bell learned his craft from postwar harmonica masters Little Walter and Big Walter Horton; he eventually worked with Willie Dixon, among others, and by the late 70s he was fronting ...