The Baby Boomer era, a time of profound societal shifts, gifted the world an extraordinary legacy of rock music that ...

Ray Charles lived in South Dallas in the mid-1950s while assembling his crack Atlantic Records band, featuring Lincoln High ...

The jazz, blues and rock great plays favorites with his gear and recalls that time when he was supporting Jimmy Witherspoon and he took a fall... and took the drums with him ...

There’s something about a slow sip of good Kentucky bourbon that feels a lot like the low hum of a John Lee Hooker riff – ...

New Orleans bluesman Guitar Lightnin' Lee has died; he fronted a band that included punk musicians decades younger than him ...

Grave illness and a broken heart have tested Stephen Dale Petit – but the bluesman tells us that completing his Clapton-bolstered masterpiece, Be The Love, is all that matters ...

“For him to come full circle with everything. For him to come here ill and not feeling well. Then, being able to start ...

Veteran blues musician Tinsley Ellis takes on new territory and strips down, delving into the acoustic blues traditions of ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.