The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

David Evans, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Memphis, explain some of the history behind blues music, especially the stripped-down, raw style of music called Delta blues. Mai Cramer ...

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues style of the 1940s, and BB King, above, headed the blues revival in the 1960s Chattanooga-born Bessie Smith, nicknamed the Empress of the ...

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 ...

Think of America's favorite cities for jazz and blues and a few contenders ... Of course, Houston's musical legacy still lives. It courses through the guitar styles of ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons ...

The 32nd River City Blues Festival took place on March 14-15, bringing a wide array of nationally recognized blues musicians ...