Memphis music producer Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell recruited area musicians to contribute what he calls “authentic” sounds to the ...

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

Ryan Coogler’s vampires ’n’ blues thriller Sinners is everything Hollywood tells us the masses don’t want: Set a hundred ...

She made her first record of a couple of blues tunes and also married for the first time. Rosemary was already an established singer with Columbia when Mitch Miller came on board as the head of the ...

Ryan Coogler's Sinners creates a mythology all its own, but takes inspiration from the real-life legend of a blues musician and his deal with the Devil.

Born to working class cotton farmers Kingsland, Arkansas, Cash’s obsession with music began at a young age. Following a four-year period serving for the US Army, Johnny threw himself headlong into the ...

A blues guitarist from Tucson and another who grew up in Tucson are among the artists inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame.

In its musical moments, Ryan Coogler's vampire blockbuster makes a powerful statement about Black culture, ancestry, and art.

Ryan Coogler's first original film, 'Sinners,' blends elements of supernatural horror, gangster drama, romance, and blues ...

Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more.

What do Led Zeppelin, Jack White, Beyoncé, and Malcolm X have all in common? One iconic and scathing song from 2016.

Coogler thus uses two forms of traditional music – African-American blues and Irish folk – as a way to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans and the vampires share.