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

THE magic brides make when they mix something old, new, borrowed and blue was also the combination for mojo to transform Avery Fisher Hall into a blues juke joint for a night. Friday’s three-hour ...

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 ...

“At the moment, this is the best re-master of the whole catalogue. When it comes to acoustic blues that’s related to rock ’n’ roll – because there are so many strains – Johnson has to be the greatest.

From the Mississippi Delta’s raw acoustic roots to the electrified stages of London and Chicago, blues guitar has been the ...