The second single from Bibb's forthcoming album is named after Muddy Waters, and he and guitarist Robbie McIntosh put on a ...

Before the blues filled grand theaters and concert halls, it lived in humble bars, street corners, and juke joints where life ...

From Blind Willie Johnson to Howlin' Wolf and beyond, Paul McGuinness explores the best blues songs of all time ...

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

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

Charlie Watts embodies this book’s thesis. It’s impossible to imagine the Rolling Stones without him, and he was just as crucial to their sound as Keith Richards’ guitar or Mick Jagger’s singing. In ...

Don’t like the music platform’s ethics? Great! Now hand over your Chuck Berry vinyl and that Taylor Swift album.

Two definitive blues albums, The Best of Muddy Waters and Moanin’ in the Moonlight, are each, in their own right, a powerful collection of blues songs.

"Ball and Chain" by Big Brother and the Holding Company and "Never Going Back Again" by Fleetwood Mac are underrated classic rock masterpieces.

“Got My Mojo Workin’” is a great song to start a set with, as singer-pianist-songwriter Nicole Zuraitis proved both on her new album, “Live at Vic’s,” and also at her album launch party Thursday night ...

No one sings pain, joy, or survival quite like a blues singer. Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of enslaved African Americans, blues music rose up from the cotton fields and ...