As one of the world’s leading blues remixers, Charlie Beale has developed a signature style that incorporates samples of ...

Blues music is a soulful genre. It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and resilience of Black life in America.

DeFord Bailey was born on December 14, 1899, and he remains one of the most trailblazing musicians in country music history.

"Some people think that the blues is 'my baby left me' and long guitar solos, but it's a whole lot deeper than that" ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's ...

Ron Teamer poses next to one of his many electric guitars. The Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival was created as a place for a small group of influential blues artists from northeast Kansas ...

The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which ...

January Blues Festival has announced its full 2026 lineup at 229 London, featuring artists from across the UK, Europe, and ...