CHICAGO (CBS) – There's no way one can listen to the music of blues and not feel it. CBS 2 recently met a woman who tells the stories of blues greats past, present, future and female.

Soul singer Bobby McClure sang with Sam Cooke, duetted with Fontella Bass, and collaborated with Swamp Dogg, but he fell ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never ...

‘The blues had a baby and they named it rock‘n’roll,’ sang Muddy Waters. And he was right, of course. Once he and Howlin’ Wolf started plugging into amps in the clubs of Chicago in the ...

Mamie Smith made history in February 1920 when she ... toured the country with vaudeville tent shows spreading the blues across the States. Chicago played a key role in the development of the ...