Greenleaf talks about how the blues is the "music of the people" and performs her song, "I Got a Notion to Leave" with ...

The band had scored a No.1 hit with Go Now!, a cover of an R&B standard, but a long-forgotten debut album that included it ...

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The singer/songwriter is one of the 2024 Kennedy Center honorees. In 1996, Raitt spoke to Fresh Air about about the musicians that inspired her, including Mississippi Fred McDowell. This is FRESH AIR.

In 1969, after nearly 14 years of constant gigging in small blues clubs and cutting scorching singles for obscure labels, songs that received limited radio play but were greedily snatched up by young ...

John Mayall, a music legend often referred to as the “Godfather of British Blues,” has died just months before he was supposed to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in October. He was 90.