Ma Rainey, born Gertrude Pridgett to a touring minstrel family, shaped blues in the early 20th century blending her ...

Veteran blues musician Tinsley Ellis takes on new territory and strips down, delving into the acoustic blues traditions of ...

Joe Bonamassa’s sprawling centennial tribute keeps unfolding – Vol. III reminds us that the blues is still alive, still ...

Timmie Fedell will celebrate her birthday while also retiring — marking the end of an era for Michel’s Record Shop.

Slash, the famed Guns 'N Roses guitarist, had just dropped the blues album and film 'Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival.' ...

In their place was a fully-fledged 75-minute rock show drawing heavily on the albums Beggar’s Banquet and Let It Bleed, using lighting and theatrics rock audiences had never witnessed before. Terry ...

Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience is one of myriad concerts and festivities associated with the annual ...

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

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

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

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