Joanne Shaw Taylor is ready to light up the Englert Theatre in Iowa City on Friday night, Aug. 11, 2023, with many shades of the blues. (Kit Wood) Buy Photo Joanne Shaw Taylor is widely considered a ...

The history of blues music is drenched in melancholy. So it’s no surprise when some of the most gut-wrenching blues tunes become standards.

New to the blues? Here’s what you need to know to get you started. Blues music is a genre that grew out of the American dream. Its roots were firmly planted in the New World before it migrated to ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about blues music is that the genre is all about doom and gloom. Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak.

Duluth's most-loved lo-fi blues and traditional musician Charlie Parr will perform at the Cactus Club Wednesday, June 6, with a setlist spanning his two gospel and six other folk and blues albums, as ...

Richards has described listening to Muddy Waters for the first time as "the most powerful music I had ever heard – the most expressive." Jagger, meanwhile, once said this music "seemed the most real ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few figures in American music loom as large as Muddy Waters. A transformative force in the evolution of modern blues, Waters bridged the acoustic traditions of the Mississippi Delta ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, January is typically the coldest month of the year. If we can somehow drag ourselves through the month, things will begin to turn around and we'll be on the road to ...

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans and up-and-comers suggests that the idiom remains very healthy. The ...

With this year’s Blues on Belgrade, set for Saturday on lower North Mankato’s main street, Jake Downs is again showing that persistence pays off. Band schedules don’t always work out for them to play ...