The history of blues music is drenched in melancholy. So it’s no surprise when some of the most gut-wrenching blues tunes become standards.

After Lodge and Hayward joined the group, The Moody Blues evolved from an R&B outfit to a more experimental psychedelic and melodic rock band, starting with the group’s landmark 1967 symphonic concept ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

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 ...

One iconic American highway inspired rock legend Bob Dylan's most celebrated album and remains the ultimate road trip for ...

This isn’t a book for the fainthearted. It’s certainly not for the puritanical. This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references so scabrous they would make a pirate ...

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 ...

The real Rainey would be out of a job just a year later: classic blues was fading in popularity in favor of swing jazz, and ...

Actor to appear at Beatles on the Beach in Boca Raton on March 14 with Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience.