Both directly, and indirectly, the impact on the blues on the modern history of Western music has been profound. Robert Leroy Johnson (1911-1938) was born and raised in Mississippi. He took up ...

Spread the love The 100 Best Blues Albums of All Time Blues music, with its rich history and profound influence on modern ...

Celebrate Women’s History Month with music featuring the early blues women of Naptown during the 1920s and ‘30s.

Black country, folk and blues musicians have always been vital to the genres' very American, very long legacies. The all-powerful Beyoncé, with her latest album, "Cowboy Carter," has shined a ...

Chicago played a key role in the development of the urban blues of the 1930s. Musicians who had left the South during the Great Depression, including Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie and Tampa Red ...

Musicians from Belfast and Glasgow moved to London to be part of the club scene there. The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues ...

In 2010, singer & composer Ravid Kahalani founded the rare combination of top musicians we now call Yemen Blues. From the start, Yemen Blues created an original sound that became a new language in ...