Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

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

There’s a “New York State of Mind.” We love L.A. “cause the sun is shining all the time.” Chicago toddles — whatever that means. “London’s Calling” — even though its bridge is falling down. “April in ...

Memphis can lay claim to playing a significant and in some cases crucial role in just about every type of American popular music. But, as the Memphis tourism bureau is happy to remind visitors, the ...

Blues will still be a part of the Beale Street Music Festival in 2023. Memphis in May, organizers of the annual multiday concert fest, have announced that the iconic Blues Tent — a mainstay of the ...

Led Zeppelin transformed the 1929 blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie into the powerful rock anthem When the ...

FILE - Christone "Kingfish" Ingram performs at Bourbon and Beyond Music Festival at Kentucky Exposition Center, Sept. 16, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. Ingram won the award for best contemporary blues male ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of Austin’s most popular summer events is making its comeback this week. Austin City Limits Radio’s Blues on the Green is back at Zilker Park Tuesday and Wednesday evening from ...