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 ...

When Ruthie Foster steps onto the stage, strap yourself in. Her shows are roller coasters that take you from the valleys of Son House to the peaks of Bob Marley, with dips and dives, twists and turns ...

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Since relocating to New York from his native South Los Angeles in 2007, the multifaceted blues performer Jerron Paxton has been ever more in demand, rising from street busker to much-noticed and ...

In what would have been B.B. King’s 100 th birthday month, CU Boulder music scholar Shawn O’Neal considers how the legends of blues can be heard in even the fizziest pop of 2025 B.B. King was born to ...

With MOJO Magazine's #1 Blues Album of 2008, Fall Changes, and #2 Blues Album of 2011, Imitate the Sun, New York guitarist/singer Chris Bergson has established himself as "one of the most inventive ...

Adrian S. Potter delivers a bold collection of prose and poetry that explores grief, identity, and the modern human ...

Oklahoma guitarist, singer and songwriter Watermelon Slim is breaking new lyrical ground in modern blues music, and that’s a good thing. Some blues fans are getting tired of the same old themes: a ...

PORTSMOUTH — The sounds of American blues music surged through the auditorium of Portsmouth Middle School on Wednesday morning during a rousing concert to usher in Black History Month. The school, ...