Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

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Among the most highly regarded of today's jazz guitarists, John Scofield doesn't think that much about styles and genres. He's a guitar player, and a great one. As such, he's had the chance to perform ...

By the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Clapton was playing guitar in a way the entire music industry envied, but he felt the same about ...

ACOUSTIC WEEK: Blues is a wholly American music form, and as the steel- string flat-top acoustic guitar was a product of European immigrants into the United States, the two were destined to be ...

What it did: Popularised Johnson’s great creation myth – that his fame was the result of a deal made with the Devil at a rural crossroads. What came next: Johnson died at 27, cementing his Faustian ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

(orchestral music) ♪ I'll be with my baby tonight, I'll be with my baby tonight ♪ ♪ I'll take my baby down low, said she never had a man ♪ ♪ When she's gone in my time, mama ♪ (blues guitar music) ...

There are far too many blues innovators to mention them all but listen to Delta pioneers Charley Patton, Son House and Robert Johnson to appreciate the roots of the genre. 13 easy drum songs every ...

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / November 1, 2016 / Mike Nagoda, a Canadian LGBT blues guitarist and recording artists with Ropeadope Records, is pleased to announce the release of his new album, Mike ...