While many of the most prominent early blues artists were reared in the South, where they learned the vernacular music of their communities, Brooks studied classical music for twenty years ...

To commemorate Women's History Month, World Cafe is looking back on a century's worth of music history. Every week in March, ...

Photo by Srijita Chattopadhyay/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services "Sometimes people have this misconception that blues is all sad music," said Greg Johnson, head of the Department of Archives and ...

Why Guitar God Rory Gallagher Was Ireland’s Hendrix And Clapton Rolled Into One “Organic Is What Mattered”: Behind Rory Gallagher’s Electric Guitar Sound ...

The Blues House Party has been serving up an eclectic blend of blues music on WFYI’s weekend lineup for decades. Host Matthew Socey delivers a variety of the latest, classic and local tracks.

February 28, 2025 • The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at Aretha's Jazz Café in Detroit for Black History ...

Members: Nathan Explosion (Brendon Small), Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Brendon Small), Pickles (Brendon Small), William Murderface (Tommy Blacha), Toki Wartooth (Tommy Blacha) Best Song: "Murmaider" ...

Top awards at the 2025 Children's and Family Emmys went to ‘Percy Jackson,’ ‘The Velveteen Rabbit,’ ‘Orion and the Dark’ and ...

Whatever was the case, the stories illustrate how music industry observers say Chess and other white music producers took advantage of Black performers. Waters was a pioneer of urban blues music ...

Other top trophy recipients across both the main ceremony, hosted by Looney Tunes voice actor Eric Bauza, and the creative ...

How would he sound? For me, it was all strangely familiar — a throwback to the moment when a lucky bunch of us in the SNL audience witnessed a complete-unknown music moment of its time ...

1 albums on the blues charts, the all-time record. And Bonamassa, who is playing Feb. 28 at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway, is keeping busy. He’s in the middle of a US tour, which will be followed ...