Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muddy Waters with his iconic red Fender Telecaster. There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born ...
In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library of ...
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In 1938, jazz/blues pianist and singer Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe—better known as Jelly Roll Morton—sat down behind the grand piano at the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. It was at the ...
From Lead Belly to Janis Joplin, we profile 15 great blues singers who helped shape this most emotive and expressive of music ...
The first thing that you have to accept when you write a book about early blues music, Dr. Gregg Kimball says, is that you’ll never solve the mystery of it all. “We just don’t know,” says the author ...
You have to hand it to the former bassist of the “The Rolling Stones” for immersing himself into this comprehensive and meticulously annotated project that started with a 400-page book and two-hour ...