As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of ...

I spent a goodly portion of 2008 writing my way out of a rabbit hole. We all know the feeling: a random Google search or YouTube video turns into a never-ending chase down some particularly arcane ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard “I look at blues as the way of life… it’s a story, a story told with music.” That voice belongs to Jimmy “Duck” ...

Musselwhite, 82, reflects on 60 years of blues mastery in an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE at Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest Courtesy of Steve W. Likens On a scorching-hot, 100-degree day in the ...

It’s the 16th year the St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation has offered the best of blues and R&B to the Triangle, and bringing in old masters is a hallmark of the event, says Diane Pledger, president and ...

Bigger and bigger and bigger it goes, where it stops, nobody knows. Now in its fourth year, the "In the Market for Blues" music festival in the Old Market has expanded once again, something the blues ...

However, on IV, released in 1971, Led Zeppelin were ready to explore blues more curiously and with more historical closeness. The fourth studio album closes with “When The Levee Breaks,” which begins ...

The story of how Muireann Bradley got signed to a record label at the tender age of 13 reads like the opening act of a biopic about a future pop superstar. As a young lass growing up in Ballybofey, a ...

We explore where the blues came from and its influence on many modern genres of music. We explore where the blues came from and how it went on to influence many modern genres of music. From Delta ...

Greensboro, NC, October 14, 2026 – The Piedmont Blues Preservation Society (PBPS) celebrates its 41st anniversary on Sunday, ...