“Singing the blues” may seem to be a weird title as we travel through the holiday season and approach the end of another semester. We might think it should be a time of rejoicing. Yet if we are honest ...

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues are using an important moment of their home games to unite fans while honoring those who serve the country. On Thursday, the hockey team took to social media to leave a ...

That repression is still a subtext of Detroit blues. By the 60s, the soul of black women blues singers had been embodied in white singers such as Janis Joplin, whose reason to sing the blues had more ...

3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere With expressive lyrics like another day gone, nothing more left to do, my heart has been battered, broken and bruised, "Girl Singing the Blues" ...

As a 30-year St. Louis Blues fan, I have never attended a Blues game for the Star-Spangled Banner-induced adulation regarding my 20-plus years military service. Nor, to be fair, would I be distressed ...

Delta blues. Electric blues. Urban blues. Acoustic blues. Blues fans, choose your flavor. They're all cookin' in Southern Illinois and served up scorching hot by both seasoned legends and young blood ...

All his life, bluesman Milton Campbell–better known as Little Milton–has been compared to B.B. King. But all he ever wanted was to sound like T-Bone Walker. “He was a great guitarist, a great ...

B.B. King is a singular blues guitarist. He is instantly recognizable in a genre of music that has for hundreds of years relied on generally the same chord structure and patterns. Why? Because B.B.

Multiple sclerosis forced Charles Glenn to step aside as the St. Louis Blues’ anthem singer just as they were winning their first championship. He has both moved on and held on. By Ben Shpigel The New ...

The day after the Blues Music Foundation disbursed $191,650 in grants to non-profit orgs and museums, Nielsen SoundScan provided a reminder of how tough it is to sell a blues record in this day and ...