Why You Must Listen: Named after King’s famous guitar ... “Rock Me Baby” is one of the most covered blues songs in history, but no one delivers it quite like King. With a swaggering ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

Many of those old famous blues songs were church songs with different lyrics; that was the kind of thing Ray Charles pioneered. He worked on the album for two years, either covering tunes he liked ...