These life-changing quotes about music epitomize that philosophy ... history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues—all those things that combine to make up the genre.

The blues have taken a backseat in modern music; however, these three musicians and their killer tunes might disagree.

“In addition to the hemoglobin vampires crave, Sinners has music flowing through its veins, starting with the blues that Sammie [Miles Caton] and respected local musician Delta Slim (Delroy ...

In 1964, the Rolling Stones took a break from their first American tour to record several songs at Chess Records at 2120 S. Michigan Ave. It was where Chicago’s Black blues performers made the ...

Musicians from Belfast and Glasgow moved to London to be part of the club scene there. The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues ...

“With the ‘Great Migration of the Blues,’ you have these blues musicians who were traveling to Chicago, getting away from all of the restrictions that were there with the Jim Crow era and ...