This introduction to key blues artists proves that women have been a key part of the genre since it began. From the earliest days of recorded blues, female musicians and singers have often led the ...

Muddy was only in his early 30s but he became the patriarch of the Chicago blues scene. With the pick of the city’s musicians in the 1950s, it was more a question of who didn’t play in Muddy ...

Very few guitarists can claim to have ever come close to the talents of Jeff Beck, but there's one that he always claimed to have been the greatest ever.

The 1950s music scene would challenge these simplistic ... You could describe Ray Charles as one of the most famous Black blues singers from the 50s, but that would mean discounting his innovative ...

Baton Rouge’s blues community is mourning the death of singer Mamie Porter. A songwriter and vocalist who performed for 30 years with her husband, Smokehouse Porter, she died Saturday at the couple’s ...

Typically, blues artists write out of their own experience ... until large numbers of whites discovered the music in the 1950s and especially in the 1960s. We always think of blues as being ...

Bob Dylan has often proved a divisive live act, but the folk hero had his own ideas about the greatest live act of all time, coming in the form of Howlin' Wolf.

Some of the exhibiting artists had previously shown at the ICA in London and, in the 1950s, appeared regularly on popular television programmes to paint in front of the nation. Those who collected ...

Listen to as much as you can from the artists above so that you get a true flavour for how pop music has changed since the 1950s. rock ‘n’ roll A musical style originating in blues ...

On Friday, January 24, 2025, the Blues Foundation announced the nominees for the 46th Annual Blues Music Awards. Alligator Records artists received an astounding 27 nominations. Leading all artists ...