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“Hello, can you hear me? Hello, hello?” implored country-blues innovator Jontavious Willis through garbled clatter of bad cell reception. The line went silent. Then a few seconds later, a call came ...

It was a balmy afternoon last November, almost T-shirt weather, when Jontavious Willis, a 27-year-old Grammy-nominated blues musician, sat down to record his third album at Capricorn Sound Studios in ...

Without a 2020 Baton Rouge Blues Festival, Jontavious Willis’ show on Oct. 16 at Beauvoir Park will be the Baton Rouge Blues Foundation’s first in-person event since March. The coronavirus pandemic ...

A young man is doing his best to keep the old blues alive. “I like the blues music of the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s and ’50s,” said Jontavious Willis, acoustic guitarist and singer, during a recent phone ...

Grammy-nominated blues artist Jontavious Willis is making his way to Montgomery’s Capitol Oyster Bar on Sunday for 5 p.m. outdoor show. “To me the blues is the most important musical genre and the ...