Podcast: Musician John Lodge will be in the United States in July, August, and December, performing some of the band’s ...

Blues music can't be explained in just a few words. It's a way of life and it comes from the heart. These 25 songs show the breadth and depth of the genre.

Blues Song Is a Decades-Long Music Lesson As part of our series about students and teachers, musicologist Bruce Nemerov describes the way that one song is recorded by several different musicians ...

The blues music genre has been around for a very long time and produced some incredible singers and musicians, but what are the most legendary blues songs? With its origins tracing back over 100 ...

Songs of work, struggle. The lyrics of blues guitarist J.B. Lenoir’s song, "Down in Mississippi,” depict themes running through the blues, conjuring images of men and women working the land to ...

Eight-time Grammy-winning bluesman Buddy Guy is the definition of a living legend. Turning 89 on July 30 – the same day his ...

When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window at the experience people are having at the time. Typically, blues artists write out of their own experience.

Paul Butterfield and Charlie Musselwhite were among the first harmonica players to bring the harp and blues music to rock audiences. Initially, Butterfield had the greater success — thanks in ...

The blues is not, as some imagine, as old as the hills. According to David Wondrich, author of Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, it was "a particular creature of the 1890s".

When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window at the experience people are having at the time. Typically, blues artists write out of their own experience.