From Blind Willie Johnson to Howlin' Wolf and beyond, Paul McGuinness explores the best blues songs of all time ...

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with bassist and festival producer Mike Griot and WBGO's Blues reporter Dave Popkin about "The Soul ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Saturday’s event promises to showcase the extraordinary talents of award-winning musicians Johnny Rawls and the Jennifer Lyn & The Groove Revival band Johnny Rawls, a soul blues singer, guitarist, ...

Emmy-nominated Asheville musician Kat Williams, known for her appearances on America's Got Talent and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, died Nov. 12.

His 1967 song "Different Strokes" became one of the most sampled in hip hop music. By The Associated Press Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and blues artist whose work was sampled by top hip-hop ...

Seattle seven-piece The Dip writes original songs that recall the classic soul music of record labels such as Stax and artists similar to Wilson Pickett. The band plays the Gothic Theatre on Sunday, ...

For over half a century Jackson, Mississippi-based label Malaco Records has been an undeniable force in Black music. With a roster of R&B kings (Little Milton, Bobby “Blue” Bland), soul-blues masters ...

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

Somewhere between my office, the kitchen and the bedroom for nearly two years, I began completely questioning whether I was going to continue in the business of music, writes soul/blues ...

HAS it got soul? Man, that’s the question of the hour. If it has soul, then it’s tough, beautiful, out of sight. It passes the test of with-itness. It has the authenticity of collard greens boiling on ...