Each weekday morning, Ray Macklin, known as “Silky Ray” in the blues music world, helps Marion wake up with soulful vocals, sliding guitar riffs and syncopated rhythm. “Good morning, good morning,” ...

Mick Martin, the standard-bearer for blues music in Sacramento for more than a generation, has died. He was 76. For decades, Martin was the voice, face and sound of the blues in the Sacramento region ...