From Blind Willie Johnson to Howlin' Wolf and beyond, Paul McGuinness explores the best blues songs of all time ...

We don't think of The Beatles as blues artists. But these five songs might make you think again about their blues chops.

Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Led Zeppelin transformed the 1929 blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie into the powerful rock anthem When the ...

Eighty-five years ago today, the blues rocker who has won multiple Grammy Awards and played with blues legends was born in Texas.

Of all the bands in the 1960s that cracked open the colors of new musical possibilities, few are as underappreciated as The Moody Blues. The Moodies are widely beloved but taken for granted. They’ve ...

Ryan Coogler's latest film, "Sinners," a spicy cinematic gumbo of African American folk tale, painful racial history and vampire horror starring Michael B. Jordan, has bolted out of the box-office ...

Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...