Lord Woodbine taught the Fab Four the blues– but was written out of pop history. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and James McGrath pay ...

Blues music has long been linked to the mystical or supernatural. After all, the seminal Blues tale is of legend Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 49 and ...

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It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and ...

"African American history has always suffered from neglect. But currently it is under attack. The assault comes from two ...

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There are a few iconic musicians whose careers wouldn’t be the same without their equally iconic guitars. The instruments became so crucial to their music that the guitars are as famous as the ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that ...

The soundtrack blends Delta blues with other musical influences, showcasing the genre's impact on modern music. The vampires in “Sinners” — the new movie from “Black Panther” writer-dire ...

he tuned his guitar according to the style of a group of Black soldiers from the Caribbean he met while serving with the U.S. Army in France during the First World War. Like most blues musicians ...

Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s ... t play the so-called “race records” of Black artists, but Freed exuberantly brought this music ...