The Big Steam Blues and Roots Music Festival is looking for artists to design the official poster and T-shirt for this year's festival.

Delta blues music has traveled far and these standards by Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly forever changed rock ...

Blues icon and world music pioneer Taj Mahal will be headlining the Chicago Blues Festival this June. Taj Mahal and the ...

Taj Mahal, a musician expert at many styles, is playing a Thursday concert at Atlanta's Variety Playhouse alongside his ...

This year's festival headliners earned their status.

The 2026 Chicago Blues Festival returns June 4-7 with free performances around the city. See the full lineup, schedule and ...

Despite "not remembering" his shows with Slash's Blues Ball, the iconic guitarist recognizes how pivotal the experiences were in shaping his love of blues music Scott Dudelson/Getty After the ...

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 ...

For Buddy Guy — a stalwart and staunch defender of the blues — there’s nothing more important than keeping his chosen genre at the forefront of conversation. It comes naturally: Guy is one of ...

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 ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to jazz musician Sherman Irby about his latest work, "Birth of the Blues," exploring the origin of the Blues and its continued influence across genres.

ST. LOUIS - In celebration of the enduring spirit and impact of blues music - the eponymous genre that gave this hockey team its name back in 1967 - the St. Louis Blues today debuted the opening notes ...