Elvis Presley adopted Mario Lanza-inspired romantic pieces ... Together, they transformed Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's 1946 blues song into their first commercial single – and a cultural milestone.

The blues have taken a backseat in modern music; however, these three musicians and their killer tunes might disagree.

1965 (then Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles), through Feb. 1, 2025. The tally comprises songs with a main theme revolving around romantic love versus love of self and others, heartbreak or strictly ...

"Yellow Dog Blues" was inspired by the song he heard played by a man while at a train station in Tutwiler. Mississippi John Hurt is known for his upbeat, fingerstyle guitar playing. Although the ...

the song details the bored existence of a ground-down suburbanite and his romantic fantasy of life as a jazz saxophonist. Written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1976, “Deacon Blues” was ...

Finding a good love song takes work. Because different kinds of love ballads appeal to different kinds of people. Do they like something simple and poetic, rockin’ and romantic, heartfelt and ...

What it did: Lead Belly’s 1939 recording of this tragic blues song – which he frequently called ‘Black Girl’ – combined two traditional blues songs dating back to the 1870s, showing how ...

This early Count Basie recording has been somewhat forgotten as a Christmas blues, probably because the word "Christmas" isn't in the title, but it's a fine one. When the song was recorded ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...