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

You can hear echoes of it in everything from Eric Clapton’s slow blues jams to Led Zeppelin’s moody ballads. It’s a cornerstone of modern music history, but it also remains fresh for ...

One of my favorite things to play is a slow blues song, which is something I include in every performance. Each time, without really thinking much about it, I’m faced with two questions ...

Yet in its own way it reflects the hard, fast, brutal realities of the modern ... Blues; and his piano style is slow and shuffling as if expressing the long lonesome journey he is beginning in the ...

We explore where the blues came from and its influence on many modern genres of music. We explore where the blues came from and how it went on to influence many modern genres of music. From Delta ...

More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as the Rolling Stones ...

‘All of this to me is an experiment. We were calling it kind of a modern blues -- music based on the blues. It’s led to all sorts of different things, but I really want to do a modern blues album.

What it did: The influence of the blues can be seen in most genres of modern music, but there are contemporary artists working in a ‘pure’ form of the genre. Austin’s Gary Clark junior ...

One hundred years ago, in the autumn of 1912, an African-American musician by the name of WC Handy published a song that would take the US by storm - Memphis Blues ... as a modern pop trend ...