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.

One of the biggest misconceptions about blues music is that the genre is all about doom and gloom. Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak.

So on his most recent album, “Life is Just a Vapor,” he offers some sage advice: “Shoulda, woulda, coulda, I’ll do it someday ...

Hard Road is the sound of an artist maturing, dealing with tragedy, life, and new ideas for putting a fresh twist on one of ...

Many of America’s greatest blues artists are women, including Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Sister Rosetta Tharpe – but they ...

Eighty-five years ago today, the blues rocker who has won multiple Grammy Awards and played with blues legends was born in Texas.

In a duo setting, like how he’ll be playing with Jeff Dion, Moorman is the de facto drummer. He uses a device called a PorchBoard Bass, which simulates the sounds of a work boot stomping on a wooden ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

Young Mississippi blues stars Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Mr. Sipp and veteran artist Bobby Rush are among the top acts nominated for the 2024 Blues Music Awards. This week, the Memphis-based ...

Ryan Coogler's latest film, "Sinners," a spicy cinematic gumbo of African American folk tale, painful racial history and vampire horror starring Michael B. Jordan, has bolted out of the box-office ...

Coogler, who goes by the stage name OG DAYV, opens up to TooFab about creating the track "Troubled Waters" with composer Ludwig Göransson, and what it's been like to work alongside his famed director ...