Q&A: The Oscar-winning composer sits down with Paste to talk about his rustic, genre-fluid score for Ryan Coogler’s vampire ...

Blues music is a soulful genre. It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and resilience of Black life in America.

Chris Rea, the singer, songwriter and guitarist who has died aged 74, rose to fame in the 1980s as a purveyor of huskily ...

Despite "not remembering" his shows with Slash's Blues Ball, the iconic guitarist recognizes how pivotal the experiences were in shaping his love of blues music Scott Dudelson/Getty After the ...

This article is part of the “Meet Your Neighbor Monday” series, highlighting the stories of individuals who make Warren ...

Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience will no longer feature an appearance by the Oscar-winning actor when it comes to Arizona Musicfest.

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; it's ...

Ozark Blues Society kicks off 2026 with its annual Bound for Beale fundraiser to send regional hopefuls to the final rounds ...

Bobby Rush will perform at Tulips in Fort Worth on Thursday night. The 80-something singer won his first Grammy, for traditional blues album, in 2017, and he won another in the same category four ...

Ron Teamer poses next to one of his many electric guitars. The Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival was created as a place for a small group of influential blues artists from northeast Kansas ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled ...