In addition to the Blues Music Awards, a variety of related events, concerts and film screenings are planned in Memphis.

Memphis has been many things: the birthplace of the blues, ground zero for the revolution of rock 'n' roll, and the city that ...

Beyoncé Knowles Carter is the most influential singer in America. I’m talking about musicianship, Taylor Swift fans. With her new song, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” she became the first Black woman to top the ...

It doesn't take a Hollywood screenwriter to picture a young Raphael Saadiq as Sammie. Like the blues progeny at the center of Sinners, the box-office breaking vampire horror, Saadiq found himself ...

Muddy Waters once sang: "the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll." But it's more than rock… the blues makes a strong case for itself as the most influential sound in American music ...

Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure his ensemble was in appropriate Blues Brothers order. The basics weren’t a ...

Johnny Cash was one of the most influential country music singers in American music history. Known for his deep voice and ...

bob dylan on top of a car - John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images In the 1960s Bob Dylan emerged as a prominent folksinger and a mouthpiece for the counterculture movement. He has performed in over 50 ...

He was 89 years old. And as musician Lenny Kravitz wrote on X/Twitter following the news, “BB, anyone could play a thousand ...

Warning: This essay contains spoilers for the film Sinners. Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as the twins Smoke and Stack, who have returned to Clarksdale, Miss., intent on opening a juke joint after ...