INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

Kim Simmonds, founder/guitarist of English blues rockers Savoy Brown, tells his story in this posthumous autobiography.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Blues icon Vasti Jackson releaseD new album Royal American Blues. The multi-Grammy ...

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 ...

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.

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This isn’t a book for the fainthearted. It’s certainly not for the puritanical. This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references so scabrous they would make a pirate ...

Eighty-four years ago today, the groundbreaking country blues artist who traveled behind the Cold War Iron Curtain and much more.

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 ...

American Blues Theater currently has two productions playing simultaneously—Misery by William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King, directed by Artistic Affiliate Halena Kays and the World ...