Before the blues filled grand theaters and concert halls, it lived in humble bars, street corners, and juke joints where life ...

On May 5, the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival will launch a new stage in its history. Literally. The “Memphis Tourism Blues Stage on Beale” relocates the festival’s popular Blues Tent theme ...

From Blind Willie Johnson to Howlin' Wolf and beyond, Paul McGuinness explores the best blues songs of all time ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

After spending most of her lifetime working in music, 'Lectric' Liz Lottman of Ozark Blues Society says she's retiring -- from her "straight job." "I've already warned the board [of OBS] to be ready," ...

There are more famous cities associated with the history of blues, but only this Texas town can claim to be the lifelong home ...

Music promoter Steve Vagnini is building his roster of venues where he’ll be curating music lineups, not least of all the newly refurbished Golden Bough Theatre in Carmel. he recently co-produced two ...

When NBC’s Blue Network was divorced from the Red, the Blue retained custody of one of radio’s brighter offspring — the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. Like many a bright village charmer ...

W. C. Handy wrote a little song named Beale Street Blues that set artists like B. B. King, Rufus Thomas, and even Elvis ...

The last edition of Street Scene took place 15 years ago. But memories of San Diego’s homegrown music festival, held annually from 1984 to 2009, still run strong. How strong is underscored by our ...

Tom Heyman remembers exactly where he was when he learned about the fire at 22nd and Mission streets in 2015: At home, watching TV, and seeing the three-story building go up in flames. “I knew two ...