Blues music is a soulful genre. It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and resilience of Black life in America.

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 ...

Blues icon Joe Bonamassa, 48, is getting ready to release his new album, B.B. King's Blues Summit 100, and he opened up to fans about how the project will honor his mentor and friend, B.B. King, on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -The Treelawn in Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day this weekend with a four-day music and arts festival celebrating ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The Blues genre started developing in the late 1860s by ...

The blues is nearly 200 years old and arguably so beloved of a genre that the notion of it requiring innovation could easily be balked at. That's the intrigue at the crux of the Grammy-winning rise of ...

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Every great musician starts from somewhere, including today’s crop of hip hop and R&B superstars. Artists like Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars are enormously talented in their own right, but there ...

I have been a lover of music for my entire life and this year I wanted to dive deep into music history that helped to shape the genres that we listen to today. The Blues Trail was created in 2006 and ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — From the Delta blues that shaped America’s musical roots to the voices that carried gospel and opera across global stages, Arkansas’s Black artists continue to reflect the state’s ...