Spread the love The 100 Best Blues Albums of All Time Blues music, with its rich history and profound influence on modern ...

Jeff Beck, like many guitarists, was devoted to blues music, but life-changing advice from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton allowed him to explore other styles.

It’s all intertwined. Country music, folk music, blues music, rock music—you name it, they’re all poetry driven. And I think it’s all intertwined. They categorized me as rockabilly.

No state has a more solid claim to it than Mississippi. “We’re the birthplace of blues, country and rock and roll music,” says Penny Kemp, president and CEO of The MAX. “And the guitar is ...

Smoking Gun” hitmaker Robert Cray leads the pack of entertainment coming to local and regional venues over the next two weeks. The musician, a 2011 Blues Hall of Fame inductee, will play Penn’s ...

rhythm and blues, and a touch of country music. This fusion of sounds birthed the famous rock and roll genre in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which eventually evolved in ...

Rock music first grew out of the rock’n’roll movement of the 1940s and 50s, which itself was inspired by country and African-American rhythm and blues from the 1920s and 30s. Even from its ...

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as the Rolling Stones ...

The influence of R&B, jump blues and jazz artists are heard on the debut album of Jad Tariq, a Memphis guitarist-vocalist and Rhodes College alum.

Lizzo will star as Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Amazon MGM Studios' "Rosetta," a biopic highlighting the Black pioneer who ...