By The 2024 summer concerts season features rock and blues and jazz and pop and Americana and hip-hop, and it’s happening in clubs and concert halls and arenas and sheds. We’ve put our heads together to come up with selections that just might be the best of the batch at some of Greater Boston’s top venues this June-August. The Texas guitarist-vocalist has been practicing his craft since he was 12, initially making waves as a young bluesman, but eventually incorporating music from a number of other genres, including funk and straight-up rock.
Some landmark moments in his career have included him acting and playing in the John Sayles film “Honeydripper,” winning a Best Traditional R&B Performance Grammy for “Please Come Home,” and first entering the charts with his cover of the Beatles’ “Come Together.” His most recent album, “JPEG RAW,” features tunes from a couple of his heroes, Stevie Wonder and George Clinton and, while remaining a guitar-based blues-rock offering, also brings in tastes of jazz and hip-hop. She’s got a powerful, raspy singing voice; she plays a mean guitar; she’s a soulful blues woman who’s not shy about mixing in tastes of rock and R her first album came out slightly more than 50 years ago; she scored a Top 10 hit with “Something to Talk About”; and she’s won 13 Grammy Awards, the most recent three (Song of the Year, Best American Roots Song, and Best Americana Performance) for 2022’s “Just Like That.
” She’s Bonn.