The annual Chicago Blues Festival's 40th year got underway on Friday, featuring a lineup packed with blues legends and up-and-coming musicians. The world’s largest free blues festival, a staple in ...

Buddy Guy is ranked No. 27 on Rolling Stone's list of the 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He turns 90 in July and is ...

Ain’t Done with the Blues can be pre-orde r ed now. It features guest appearances by an impressive roster of respected music artists, including Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Joe Bonamassa, Christone ...

Local and national musicians will pay tribute to Dallas blues legend T-Bone Walker with a free afternoon concert May 23, 2026 at Oak Cliff's Eloise Lundy Park.

MUSKEGON, Mich. — Steven Salter, mayor of Whitehall, has dedicated thousands of hours to the Killer Blues Headstone Project, which provides headstones for blues musicians buried in unmarked graves ...

This month, Houston's best blues acts battle for a shot to represent the city at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. The Houston Blues Challenge will take place across three Sundays of ...

In 2015, Queen Latifah made waves as blues singer and LGBTQ+ pioneer Bessie Smith in the TV film Bessie. In 2020, Viola Davis garnered serious awards season buzz for her portrayal of fellow LGBTQ+ ...

If you happened to be at the corner of Wabash and Balbo at 11 p.m. in early February, you would have seen a small crowd gathered around an 87-year-old man with a beaming smile. Nattily attired in a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Buddy Guy may be a son of the south, but he's a man of Chicago blues. He makes that music his own at his South Loop Legends Club, and it echoes around the world. Guy is hard to miss; ...

A new Mississippi Blues Trail Marker is honoring a local blues legend.Visit Mississippi held a ceremony unveiling the marker outside the Iron Horse Grill on West Pearl Street in downtown Jackson on ...

Ma Rainey is best known, but Ida Cox, Cora Mae Bryant, Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins and Precious Bryant left essential music. From left to right: Ma Rainey, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Ida Cox, Precious ...

News of his death was confirmed by Toronto blues musician Paul Smith in a Facebook post on Sunday, March 1 "The blues world has lost a giant," Smith wrote in the post Legendary blues guitarist and ...