The blues is a genre that needs to be experienced live, and these are ten albums which well and truly capture the heart of it ...

The music world was rocked early in the year by the news that Billy Bass, a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, had ...

A guitar of blues musician Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten – who grew up in Carrboro – was donated to the local government by her ...

As a supporting guitarist for acts like the Mannish Boys, Lara Price and the late Candye Kane, Laura Chavez has always ...

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson is best known as a sideman to Magic Sam and Muddy Waters, but he could tear up a stage all by ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like ...

Mentorship has always been a huge part of learning how to play blues music. For Selwyn Birchwood, that inspiration and those ...

In York Walker’s play, the bluesman with the Faustian bargain upends the lives of a religious family in 1930s rural Georgia.

It’s Tuesday, and it’s another chance for you to learn a new skill or hobby! This week, we're learning how to play the guitar ...

The All-American Rejects returned last year with the novel idea of house party concerts. Now with a new album, they're still ...

John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of a fingerpicking regional acoustic blues style developed mainly in ...