Most blues songs are about personal experiences and personal ... and Edwards (recorded in December 1928), saw the hand of God in the flood, as a punishment for wickedness. A black preacher in ...

Baraka noted that the "song quality" of blues was the deepest memory, one pulling from a particularly racial reinterpretation ...

The song is quintessential blues and Big Mama Thornton ... This battle is against god and mother nature, against Hurricane ...

Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant sang his fair share of colossal rock and roll anthems, but he called one 1962 blues song "bigger than 'God Save The Queen'".

Their goal is to open Club Juke, a spot for dancing, drinking, and most importantly, blues music ... this intersection of religion and music, as Sammie grapples with the insistence of his preacher ...

Blues music arose from hardship. It offered solace. The article lists ten essential blues tracks. These songs capture raw emotion. Robert Johnson's 'Cross Road Blues' is a desperate plea.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk ...

Different styles of jazz developed throughout the 20th Century. People still create and perform jazz and blues music today. They are both very popular styles of music. Blues music can be played on ...

In his commitment to the blues, you can read the music as an urtext for Black American memoir, one that must carry on come hell or high water. Inscribed in its everlasting songs are not just a ...