Two definitive blues albums, The Best of Muddy Waters and Moanin’ in the Moonlight, are each, in their own right, a powerful collection of blues songs.

It’s May 1968 and a turbulent age, with the life-changing political events of half a century still unfolding. Riots and revolution circle this third stone from the sun as war, terrorism and civil ...

In 1964, the Rolling Stones took a break from their first American tour to record several songs at Chess Records at 2120 S. Michigan Ave. It was where Chicago’s Black blues performers made the records ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few figures in American music loom as large as Muddy Waters. A transformative force in the evolution of modern blues, Waters bridged the acoustic traditions of the Mississippi Delta ...

In my last column, I introduced an approach to playing through a 12-bar blues shuffle in the key of E with some of my favorite licks to play over the IV (four) chord, A7, and the V (five) chord, B7.

The red-brick two-flat in Kenwood was the longtime home and rehearsal space of the blues great and provided temporary housing and a place to jam for several other musicians. McKinley Morganfield ...

In addition to being one of the oldest American music genres, the blues is also the very foundation of rock ‘n’ roll. Without them, bands such as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and truly any other ...

Music fans are singing the blues following the closure this week of The Stanhope House, the cramped Sussex County club where Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Stevie Ray Vaughn once played. A notice on ...

Award-winning guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Selwyn Birchwood discovered his passion for the blues young. He was 13 when ...