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Forward motion defines Popovic's work. Across a catalog spanning two-plus decades, she has consistently blended blues with ...

Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of African American communities in the Deep South, blues music gave ...

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, musical heir to a long line of blues greats from the Mississippi Delta, has been compared to the likes of B.B. King. But while the legendary guitarist is one of Ingram's ...

Live blues music is even better outdoors in the summertime. Folks definitely understood that at the old Maxwell Street Market, which became a grassroots hot spot for the blues before World War II.

Two blues enthusiasts an ocean apart spent nearly two decades collaborating on a book they envisioned as the definitive history of the blues in Texas. Robert “Mack” McCormick was a Houston-based ...

The fusion subgenre known as blues rock came together in the early 1960s in the US and UK. It didn’t really kick off in a massive way until the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which some of the ...

The 1970s gave us some of the greatest blues-rock music ever recorded, but not every masterpiece got the attention it deserved. While everyone knows Led Zeppelin and Cream, dozens of brilliant albums ...

Matt "Guitar" Murphy, who died Friday, was best known as Aretha Franklin's soul food chef husband and band guitarist in 1980's 'The Blues Brothers.' By Mitchell Peters, Billboard Matt “Guitar” Murphy, ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

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