Before the 1950s, guitars supported the band. By the end of the decade, they led it. This breakdown covers the rise of electric guitar heroes like Scotty Moore, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, and Chuck Berry ...

If you’re looking for free music, Old Town has plenty this season. “Summertime in Old Town” is back with dozens of bands in ...

Ryan Coogler’s box-office hit “Sinners” is steeped in the blues ... old. Years later when he was dying, he wanted to reconcile with her, but she refused because he “sang the devil’s ...

She helps preview the town’s Freight Train Blues Series as the first concert gets started and what makes music events so special ... since the mid-1980s. As the art education and entertainment ...

As Sammie belts the lyrics to “I Lied to You,” a song about loving the blues, bodies sway, the heat turns up and a portal opens as the music creates a channel for ... a heated discussion at a ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

Meade “Lux” Lewis didn’t just record a blues—he conjured a rolling landscape of rhythm and motion. Cut in 1928, “Honky Tonk Train Blues ... He had no idea his music had started ...

Taj Farrant isn’t your average 15-year-old. His face-melting guitar solos mirror that of a seasoned blues guitarist ... which cut originals like “Freight Train” with covers such as Stevie ...

And especially old music." By Tom Roland Everybody’s had the blues. Merle Haggard‘s observation was true in the 1970s, and it still resonates in 2025 in country music as the genre welcomes a ...

They’ve just bought a property from a shady good old boy, and Elijah “Smoke ... tensions inherent to the blues music that soundtracks the movie. The juke joint, which gets up and running ...

Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music legends as he seeks to keep a singular American art form ... a 22-year-old guitar prodigy from Clarksdale, Mississippi, about how blues isn’t popular ...

Alt-indie pop artist Dayglow performs at MSU on April 11, 7 p.m., after gracing such venue stages as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Firefly Festival, Austin City Limits and more. The multiplatinum-certified ...