Tell us about it in Reader Reviews. And, try our new proximity search feature that helps you find the closest restaurants, music venues, theaters and more. If a modification is made to this file, it must be propagated to both the metromix doc root and the normal jackhammer site doc root. Juke joint meets opera house in the design and atmosphere at the House of Blues, which opened here in October 1996 as the largest in a chain of HOB nightclubs created by Hard Rock Cafe co-founder Isaac Tigrett, who has since departed. Diverse live music, from Aretha Franklin to Ted Nugent, War to current pop alternative bands, is booked seven nights a week.
Blues music is only one of the styles offered.
Although purists won't set foot here, the slickness that turns them off is a big plus to many who believe that the blues doesn't have to live in a shack.