Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Plenty of musicians have transitioned into acting, but many are fine making cameos in movies, whether as themselves or ...

From Blind Willie Johnson to Howlin' Wolf and beyond, Paul McGuinness explores the best blues songs of all time ...

From Patsy Cline's "Crazy" to Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," we can't listen to these songs without ...

Tracy Lee Nelson, A member of the Luiseno on his father’s side, and the Kumeyaay/Digueno on his mother’s, is an award-winning blues musician performing at the Valley Arts Festival on Nov. 8, a ...

Live albums have all the atmosphere of a concert performance, usually complete with crowd noise and ad libs, but with the ...

A treasure trove of her items were put on sale for dirt cheap after a junk dealer's random purchase of the contents of Taylor's storage locker in Orland Park.

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Daniel de Visé began contemplating a biography of B.B. King — one of the most iconic figures in American music — he was shocked at what he discovered.

Chuck Berry’s influence on Lennon, and The Beatles, was undeniable. Take “Come Together,” the song borrows the lyric “Here ...