Howlin' Wolf’s 1962 self-titled sophomore album is the latest in his catalog to join Chess Records’ Acoustic Sounds Series.

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Little did the choir know what they were missing.

Dan Auerbach opened up about how loss influenced The Black Keys' latest album. During the Wednesday, May 27 episode of ...

Some things are so good they just have to be shared. And in true Midwestern fashion, that’s what our state has done. For the second installment of “Illinois 250,” a look back at what the Chicago area ...

The "secret history" of prison music and five seminal albums created or recorded behind bars is the subject of a new book.

Among the juke joints of Clarksdale, Annabel Grossman discovers how the raw, authentic blues of the delta draws increasing numbers of foreign visitors – and how this is changing the landscape of the c ...

When Sunnyland Slim Tells You to Take Route 66, You Should Take Route 66; MUSICAL MEMOIR: I Was the Drummer for Two of ...

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On 1997’s Time Out Of Mind, Bob Dylan sounded like a man coming to accounts with himself, with the fact that anything from this point on would be sung from the penumbral clasp of approaching death. It ...