Black country, folk and blues musicians have always been vital to the genres' very American, very long legacies. The ...

Blues has been called the first truly American ... reflecting their poverty and oppression in the cotton fields of America. Wandering musicians such as Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...

The Missionaries host a live Blues jam the last Sunday of every month at The Mission, located at 915 E. High St. in Jefferson ...

If you were to meet a typical character from a blues song he would most likely be down on his luck, having trouble with his unfaithful woman and no doubt drowning his sorrows with whisky.

Marcus King belongs to no genre. The South Carolina native blends country and southern rock with soul and blues as he rips ...

In 1920 she made history as the first African-American artist to make vocal blues recordings ... to discover a world of smaller music events, genre-specific festivals, and musical points of ...

Rainey Featured in August Wilson's ‘Ma Rainey's Black Bottom’ CONTRIBUTED BY THE SPRINGER COLUMBUS, GA.—The second half of ...

Spanning between 1966 and 1970, the festival in Memphis, Tennessee, showcased veteran Black blues musicians who performed ... initially didn’t embrace the genre. “[The blues is the] basis ...