Blues is a musical tradition with deep roots in Black Southern American history, dating back to the 1860s. In contrast to country music, which the Grammys have only this year divided into categories ...

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The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to jazz musician Sherman Irby about his new show at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, "Birth of the Blues," exploring the origin of the blues and its continued ...

What can warm a blues fan’s heart more than two full days of stellar blues? How about if those two full days can be enjoyed in air-conditioned comfort and not in the uncomfortable temps - and chance ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

To see Blues Traveler in concert these days is to witness an act living up to its name. Sift the band's summer setlists and their household-name hits show up: "Run-Around," "Hook," even "The Mountains ...