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 ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

In March, D.K. Harrell, a 26-year-old blues singer-guitarist from north Louisiana, signed with the world’s greatest blues ...

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 ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...

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 ...