The blues genre has never been totally obsolete. However, in the ever-changing music industry, the genre has seemingly taken a back seat in favor of other types of music. It’s a shame, but it is ...

When Ruthie Foster steps onto the stage, strap yourself in. Her shows are roller coasters that take you from the valleys of Son House to the peaks of Bob Marley, with dips and dives, twists and turns ...

Alongside old hands, Scott, multi-instrumentalist Steve Wickham and drummer Ralph Salmins, Modern Blues sees the band’s ever-changing line-up welcome aboard keyboardist “Brother” Paul Brown and ...

Since relocating to New York from his native South Los Angeles in 2007, the multifaceted blues performer Jerron Paxton has been ever more in demand, rising from street busker to much-noticed and ...

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The biggest night in blues music will take place in Memphis this week with the annual Blues Music Awards. Presented by the ...

In what would have been B.B. King’s 100 th birthday month, CU Boulder music scholar Shawn O’Neal considers how the legends of blues can be heard in even the fizziest pop of 2025 B.B. King was born to ...

From Lead Belly to Janis Joplin, we profile 15 great blues singers who helped shape this most emotive and expressive of music ...

PORTSMOUTH — The sounds of American blues music surged through the auditorium of Portsmouth Middle School on Wednesday morning during a rousing concert to usher in Black History Month. The school, ...