How Stevie Ray Vaughan gave Bernard Allison the surprise of his life at his 16th birthday gig

Eight years on, Allison Jr. would go from admirer to peer, after a defeat turned into a victory like no other. As Allison ...

Meet Solomon Hicks, the New Yorker bringing the blues to a new audience

A 30-year-old guitar prodigy from New York who’s grown up in public, Solomon Hicks is still figuring out how to make the ...

Traveling the Blues Highway—‘the root of all American music’

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North.
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3 Landmark Rock Songs From 1967 That Transformed the Blues

Many landmark moments in rock history have resulted from artists updating the blues. And 1967 proved to be an especially ...