Stax Museum's "B.B. King in Memphis" photo exhibit features images from King’s 1982 Labor Day weekend concert at the Mud ...

The soul-blues success in the ’80s secured Malaco’s place in the firmament of African American musical culture. “As a company they’d struggled for 15 years, and twice nearly went bankrupt ...

The renowned bluesman, who died in 2015, spoke to Fresh Air in 1996 about growing up as the son of a sharecropper — and leaving the plantation as a young man to pursue a career in music.

Rhino Records' Reserve Otis Blue reissue brings classic Otis Redding soul back to vinyl, delivering pristine sound and ...

Award-winning blues artist Doug MacLeod discusses the inspiration behind his new album and performs songs rooted in personal ...

Multi-genre singer/songwriter, producer, recording artist and proud member of the Recording Academy (and a Grammy Voter since 2020), Justine Blazer, recently released her debut contemporary blues ...

Having a music critic as a father, he gravitated towards the gospel-soul-blues-R&B spectrum of music and taught himself how to play piano, guitar and harmonica. Gary Clark Jr.

Posted in Music Karen Wolfe sings tough but supple southern soul-blues This Memphis vocalist has adopted the persona of a vintage blueswoman—feisty, independent, and ready to call out no-good men.

When soul-blues master Bobby Jonz died from COVID in July 2020, the country could barely spare a moment to revisit the gritty, funky, passionate music he’d spent decades making.

Blues music is a soulful genre. advertisement. 21 Ninety. 9 Black Female Blues Singers Who Shaped the Genre. ... Often called the “High Priestess of Soul,” Nina Simone was blues embodied.

Early blues artists such as W.C. Handy, Charley Patton and Blind Lemon Jefferson may have been the pioneers of a new style of music, but the genre continues to evolve with each passing generation.

Where soul is really at today is pop music. It emanates from the rumble of gospel chords and the plaintive cry of the blues. It is compounded of raw emotion, pulsing rhythm and spare, earthy ...