DETROIT — Sounds like a blues song: born in the heat of July, died on Christmas Day. Detroit singer Alberta Adams was 97 when she died early Thursday at a Dearborn rehabilitation facility of ...

Chicago, Memphis, Tenn., Mississippi Delta, New Orleans and other regions are what we hear about as hotbeds of the blues. “But you don’t hear nothin’ about around here,” Alberta Adams said during a ...

Bert’s Market Place is hosting a memorial tribute to Detroit’s own Queen of the Blues Alberta Adams this evening, starting at 6pm. For those wishing to pay their respects more intimately, visitation ...

She’s been belting out the blues for almost 60 years now…and Alberta Adams shows no signs of slowin’ down. She’s got an earthy, world-weary voice which hints of a past filled with hound-dog men and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Against a backdrop of Sept. 11 photos, soul singer Alberta Adams proclaimed a powerful message to ...

A psychologist would call Alberta Adams a codependent who refuses to set her own boundaries. The clergy would set her up as a model Christian. But to blues lovers, she’s one of the more extraordinary ...

DETROIT — Sounds like a blues song: born in the heat of July, died on Christmas Day. Detroit singer Alberta Adams was 97 when she died early Thursday at a Dearborn rehabilitation facility of ...