The story of how Muireann Bradley got signed to a record label at the tender age of 13 reads like the opening act of a biopic about a future pop superstar. As a young lass growing up in Ballybofey, a ...

Muddy Waters once sang: "the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll." But it's more than rock… the blues makes a strong case for itself as the most influential sound in American music ...

With “traditional” blues as their foundation, some artists and educators working to introduce the music to the next ...

There remain substantial audiences for the blues, traditional R&B and soul music, and these artists have an enormous influence on new music, even though they no longer have songs in the Top 40 and ...

Bluesmen have a certain image. You all know what it is. Somewhere on a front porch in a rural area of the South, an old black man sits in a chair banging out tunes on his acoustic guitar. Well, that’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original ...