Johnny Shines, 76, one of the last of the original “Delta blues” guitarists and singers, died yesterday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He had been hospitalized since March 18, when his left leg was ...

The late great bluesman Johnny Shines knew every road ran two ways ... Guitar Player magazine wrote a piece about him titled King of the Delta Blues; Down Beat and Living Blues magazines paid ...

Delta blues great Johnny Shines, once centered out of Chicago, cut heads with the legendary Robert Johnson, among others, in his early playing years. But tiring of the machinations of a music ...

HOLT, Alabama -- The third annual Johnny Shines Blues Festival honoring the late blues singer will feature a lineup of female performers Saturday in Holt. The festival, hosted by his daughter ...

Though the photo has been authenticated as portraying Robert Johnson and Johnny ... Like Johnson, Shines is important because of his role in the transition from country Delta blues to electric ...

The second album here is a set of solo numbers by Johnny Shines, recorded in Altadena California in 1970 and a perfect example of Delta Blues. Shines always was a great slide player but his voice ...