Melbourne blues singer and composer Nick J. Harvey has released his new single, Be Careful with the Bacon, Steven. We asked ...

For more than six decades, this legend has played with renown blues pioneers and now you can see him in Lexington.

A cotton picker turned mechanic turned musician, “Daddy” Mack Orr became a fixture in Memphis nightclubs and international ...

A Blues Brothers archival concert recording, 'The Lost Album,' accompanies a new graphic novel, 'The Escape of Joliet Jake,' out this fall.

Learn all about Smokestack Lightning Lyrics by Howlin’ Wolf, including when it was released and who helped create this blues hit.

"Man, you gotta read this book! You wanna learn the history of the blues? You wanna learn about ... Southern soul? It’s all here in 'Jacktown USA.' ...

Though he powered classics by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Chuck Berry, innovative drummer Fred Below is fading into ...

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s new work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Brooklyn Academy of Music moves between church ...

President Jimmy Carter designated June as Black Music Month in 1979, recognizing the pivotal role Black musicians have played in shaping the cultural heritage of the United States.

Long before Gary Clark Jr. jammed with Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, and Foo Fighters, and headlined festivals all across the globe, he was an unknown, unsigned blues guitarist in his hometown of ...

Despite starting their career doing blues covers, The Rolling Stones later quit the blues and for a good reason as they protected their own idols.

Just as the hugely popular hair metal nation ushered in by MTV was being killed off in 1990 by an invading army of grunge ...