The story of how Muireann Bradley got signed to a record label at the tender age of 13 reads like the opening act of a biopic about a future pop superstar. As a young lass growing up in Ballybofey, a ...

Led Zeppelin transformed the 1929 blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie into the powerful rock anthem When the ...

For a guy who grew up in a sort of musical royal family -- he's the son of Steve Earle, and was named for Townes Van Zandt-- it's surprising that Justin Townes Earle has only been making music ...

Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music. This is FRESH AIR.

Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) will release Dead Blues Vol. 1 on October 17 via Strolling Bones Records. The album features his renditions of blues songs performed and recorded by the ...