Blues Events

1937 Aug 20 Sky Saxon is born
Sky "Sunlight" Saxon (August 20, 1937 – June 25, 2009) was an American rock and roll musician who was best known as the leader and singer of the 1960s Los Angeles garage rock band The Seeds.
1966 Moby Grape forms
Moby Grape is an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, co...
1982 Aug 1 Aerosmith releases Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith and was released in 1982. This is the only Aerosmith album to not feature Joe Perry. Perry had left i...
1983 Jun 13 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble release Texas Flood
Texas Flood is the debut album of American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, released on June 13, 1983 by Epic Records. The album was named after a cover featured on ...
1984 May 15 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble release Couldn't Stand the Weather
Couldn't Stand the Weather is the second studio album by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. It was released on May 15, 1984 by Epic Records as the follow-up t...
1985 Sep 30 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble release Soul to Soul
Soul to Soul is the third studio album by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released on September 30, 1985 by Epic Records. Recording sessions took place betw...
1986 Nov 15 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble release Live Alive
Live Alive is an electric blues album compiled from four live performances by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. The performances were recorded on July 16, 1985 at the Montreux Jazz F...
1987 Aug 18 Aerosmith releases Permanent Vacation
Permanent Vacation is the ninth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1987. The album marks a turning point in the band's career. It is their first album to emplo...
1989 Jan Robert Cray appears on the cover of Guitar World
Robert Cray brings his blues styling and blue Strat to the cover of Guitar World this month. Also peeking out at us through his shades is Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora.
1989 Jun 6 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble release In Step
In Step is the fourth studio album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released in 1989. The title In Step can be seen as referring to Vaughan's new-found sobriety, following the yea...
1989 Sep 12 Aerosmith releases Pump
Pump is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001. Pump was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics up...
1990 Aug 27 Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a plane crash at 35
At around 1:00 a.m. on August 27, 1990, Vaughan was flying by helicopter from East Troy, Wisconsin to Chicago with members of Eric Clapton's tour crew. The helicopter crashed into the sid...
1990 Sep 25 The Vaughan Brothers release Family Style
Family Style is a blues-rock album by the Vaughan Brothers, released September 1990. The album features the brethren guitarists and vocalists, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, in their only...
1990 Dec Stevie Ray Vaughan appears on the cover of Guitar World
This issue pays tribute to the great Stevie Ray Vaughan, who at that time had recently passed away in a tragic helicopter accident. He was 35 years old. It is incidentally the first issue...
1993 Apr 20 Aerosmith releases Get a Grip
Get a Grip is the eleventh studio album by American Rock band Aerosmith, released in 1993. It was the band's last studio album released by Geffen Records. Get a Grip contains five hit ...
1997 John Mayer and Clay Cook form LoFi Masters
John Mayer enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, at age nineteen. After two semesters, he chose to cut his studies short, and at the urging of his college fri...
1997 Mar 18 Aerosmith releases Nine Lives
Nine Lives is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1997. The album was produced by Aerosmith and Kevin Shirley, and was the band's first studio album...
1999 Sep 24 John Mayer releases his deput EP "Inside Wants Out"
Inside Wants Out is the debut extended play (EP) by American blues-rock musician John Mayer. Self-released on September 24, 1999, the album was later re-released by Columbia Records on Au...
2001 Mar 6 Aerosmith releases Just Push Play
Just Push Play is the thirteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music). Helping Aerosmith in the studio were coproducers and song collabo...
2001 Sep 18 John Mayer releases debut album "Room for Squares"
Room for Squares is the debut studio album by American musician John Mayer, released on September 18, 2001. Originally released independently by Aware Records on June 5, 2001, the album r...
2002 John Mayer releases "Your Body Is a Wonderland" single
"Your Body Is a Wonderland" is the second single released by John Mayer from his first album, 2001's Room for Squares. Its commercial success was greater than Mayer's prior single, "No Su...
2002 Apr 23 John Mayer releases "No Such Thing" single
"No Such Thing" is the first commercially released single by John Mayer from his first album, 1999's Inside Wants Out. Like many of the songs from Mayer's early musical career, the song w...
2003 John Mayer releases "Bigger Than My Body" single
"Bigger Than My Body" is the first single released by John Mayer from his second album Heavier Things. As a B-side, the single contained a cover of Radiohead's "Kid A" and a new original ...
2003 Feb 11 John Mayer releases "Any Given Thursday"
Any Given Thursday is a live CD/DVD by John Mayer, recorded in Birmingham, Alabama at the Oak Mountain Amphitheater on September 12, 2002, during the Room for Squares tour. The album quic...
2003 Apr 29 John Mayer releases "Why Georgia" single
"Why Georgia" is the third single released by John Mayer from his first album, Room for Squares. As a B-side, the international version single featured the live version of "Why Georgia" a...
2003 Sep 9 John Mayer releases his second studio album "Heavier Things"
Heavier Things is the second major label studio album by singer-songwriter/guitarist John Mayer, released in 2003. The title of the album itself is a subtle response to certain criticism ...
2004 John Mayer releases "Clarity" single
"Clarity" is a song by John Mayer, sparsely arranged with piano and drums provided, in part, by The Roots drummer Questlove. It was the second single from Mayer's 2003 album Heavier Thing...
2004 Mar 30 Aerosmith releases Honkin' on Bobo
Honkin' on Bobo is the fourteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). The album includes eleven covers and one original track titled "...
2004 Sep 28 John Mayer releases "Daughters" single
"Daughters" is the third single from Heavier Things, the 2003 studio album from Blues singer-songwriter, John Mayer. The critically-acclaimed song won numerous awards, including the 2005 ...
2005 John Mayer, Pino Palladino and Steve Jordan form the John Mayer Trio
In the spring of 2005, Mayer formed the John Mayer Trio with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan, both of whom he had met through previous studio sessions. The trio played a c...
2005 Sep 13 John Mayer Trio releases "Who Did You Think I Was" single
"Who Did You Think I Was" was the first single released by blues-rock group John Mayer Trio from their first album, Try!. As it is from a live album, the single itself is a live recording...
2005 Nov 22 John Mayer Trio releases first live album "Try!"
Try! is the first live album by the John Mayer Trio. It was released by Columbia Records on November 22, 2005. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards...
2006 Aug John Mayer releases "Waiting on the World to Change" single
"Waiting on the World to Change" is the first single released from John Mayer's 2006 studio album, Continuum. The song enjoyed commercial success as a single and won the Grammy for Best M...
2006 Sep 9 John Mayer releases his third studio album "Continuum"
Continuum is the third major label studio album from John Mayer and was officially released in the United States on September 12, 2006. It marked a change in Mayer's musical style, and in...
2006 Nov John Mayer releases "Belief" single
"Belief" was the second single from John Mayer's 2006 album Continuum. The song features Ben Harper on guitar. Despite its success on the American adult album alternative chart and the...
2007 Jan 31 John Mayer releases "Gravity" single
"Gravity" is a song by American singer-songwriter guitarist John Mayer and is featured on two of his releases: the 2005 live album Try! by the John Mayer Trio and his 2006 studio album Co...
2007 Jul 4 John Mayer releases "Dreaming with a Broken Heart" single
"Dreaming with a Broken Heart" is a song by John Mayer from his 2006 album Continuum. It was released as digital download single in July 2007. The single entered the U.S Billboard Hot ...
2007 Nov 20 John Mayer releases "Say" single
"Say" is a song by John Mayer written for the Rob Reiner film The Bucket List in 2007. It was released as a single on November 20 and is the first commercial single in Mayer's career that...
2008 Jul 1 John Mayer releases live album "Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles"
Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles, commonly referred to as Where the Light Is, is a live album and concert film by American blues-rock musician John Mayer. Released on Ju...
2009 Oct 13 John Mayer releases "Who Says" single
"Who Says" is the thirteenth single released by American singer-songwriter John Mayer, and the first to be released from his fourth studio album, Battle Studies. It is Mayer's first studi...
2010 Oct 10 Solomon Burke Dies
Jerry Wexler, a co-founder of Atlantic Records, described Solomon Burke as "wily, highly intelligent, a salesman of epic proportions". Burke, who has died aged 70, was indeed vast, and wa...