‘The blues had a baby and they named it rock‘n’roll,’ sang Muddy Waters. And he was right, of course. Once he and Howlin’ Wolf started plugging into amps in the clubs of Chicago in the 1950s, the ...

The only trouble with musical revival eras is that it also requires that sounds you love are dying just a little bit more than before you're treated to loving them all over again. On Wednesday night ...

Gang of brownskin women (Harvey Hull) --Be true, be true blues (Henry Sims) --I'm leavin' town (William Harris) -- Special rider blues ; Cypress Grove blues (Skip James) -- Hang it on the wall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original ...

Burnside’s I Be Trying won a Grammy in 2022 for Best Traditional Blues Album. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Carver Community Cultural Center Grammy-winning blues musician Cedric Burnside — known for mixing ...

Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York are some of the more notable American locations for music. However, the location that partially gave these places their music: the Mississippi ...