The blues genre has never been totally obsolete. However, in the ever-changing music industry, the genre has seemingly taken a back seat in favor of other types of music. It’s a shame, but it is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ally Venable performs during the WC Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival in Henderson, Kentucky in 2023. Venable will perform at the ...

Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials bring slide guitar and Chicago blues to Goshen on Nov. 7 for an all-ages show at Ignition Music ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It happened out of necessity. Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman was in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 25 years ago when some out-of-towners asked where they could hear blues music.

With fewer clubs and iconic headliners, the business is in the process of reinventing itself with rising stars and a wider definition of the genre. By Steve Knopper Mike Wheeler says he has 16 gigs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The National Blues Museum will close its doors after nearly a decade of preserving the history of the music genre and providing a stage for musicians. It opened in ...

Mr. Taylormade and the Taylormade Band, led by Mark Taylor Jr., took first place last Sunday at the 22nd Annual Blues ...

In 2010, singer & composer Ravid Kahalani founded the rare combination of top musicians we now call Yemen Blues. From the start, Yemen Blues created an original sound that became a new language in ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's ...