Many of America’s greatest blues artists are women, including Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Sister Rosetta Tharpe – but they ...

Charles Steadham is no stranger to blues music. He has been playing the blues for years, performing in venues across the South. Not once was he afraid to play onstage in front of a crowd or even to ...

LONDON — John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A ...

Sometimes when you get into a story, you find a thread that leads to another equally interesting story. Let’s start with a rock and blues legend from the 1960s, releasing her first album in over a ...

Before the blues filled grand theaters and concert halls, it lived in humble bars, street corners, and juke joints where life ...

This 4xCD set offers a look at mid-20th century Detroit blues, anchored by a generous selection of rarities by John Lee Hooker. Despite its subtitle, Garden City Blues doesn’t really chronicle a scene ...

On July 21, 1966, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Overton Park. The chief speaker was Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who "told the crowd of about 400 Klansmen, supporters ...

Theola Kilgore, 79, a 1960s R & B singer who was best-known for her recordings of two Ed Townsend songs, “The Love of My Man” and “This Is My Prayer,” died Sunday at a Los Angeles rehabilitation ...

These hugely underrated bands from the 1960s have gotten some love after their heyday passed, but I can't help but think they deserved more.

At a time when U.S.-Iran foreign relations are a hot-button topic in the news, two San Francisco theater companies have come together to tell a story of cross-cultural exchange between the two ...