Among the harmonica’s many wonderful and unique traits, there is this: You have to really suck to be good at it. As one of America’s finest and busiest harmonica players, Denver’s Ronnie Shellist ...

First as half of the duo Cephas and Wiggins and later on his own, he was one of the best-known musicians playing the style known as the Piedmont blues. By Clay Risen Phil Wiggins, a harmonica player ...

John Lodge, the bassist who rocked his way to global stardom with the U.K. band Moody Blues, died Oct. 10, a rep for the musician confirmed. He was 82. "It is with the deepest sadness that we have to ...

DALTON — There’s something that all blues musicians share: A time that they can recall with almost perfect clarity that they knew they were destined to play that heartbreaking, house-rocking music.

On Sunday, May 9, award-winning vocalist Shemekia Copeland received the coveted UK Blues Award for International Blues Artist Of The Year. The award was presented in a virtual ceremony hosted by BBC ...