Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. On Blues People, his fourth ...

Atlanta is a big enough town that finding a list of a dozen bars offering life-sized jenga and another dozen where bocce ball is close to club sport is easy to do. Yet, if you wanted to make a list of ...

A previously unreleased Eric Clapton acoustic jam is set for release next year. "Mississippi Blues" was recorded with Tim Duffy and will be part of Blue Muse, a compilation from the Music Maker Relief ...

While it may be less common today that a child follows one of their parents into the exact same line of work, inevitable comparisons do follow. And if that profession happens to be related to the ...

Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more. By James Thomas I’m James, a software engineer with The New York Times’s ...

We explore where the blues came from and its influence on many modern genres of music. We explore where the blues came from and how it went on to influence many modern genres of music. From Delta ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few musicians have reshaped the sound of modern music as profoundly as Miles Davis. As a visionary trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, Davis revolutionized jazz multiple times over ...

“Hear the rattle in the holler — that ain’t no snake,” crooned Marcus Oglesby, making a sound with his mouth like a shaken bottle of pills. The song, performed by Oglesby’s Appalachian blues band ...

Billy Wright poses for a Peacock Records publicity still circa 1955. In the annals of music history, there are often unsung heroes who paved the way for future generations. One such trailblazer was ...

In 2015, Queen Latifah made waves as blues singer and LGBTQ+ pioneer Bessie Smith in the TV film Bessie. In 2020, Viola Davis garnered serious awards season buzz for her portrayal of fellow LGBTQ+ ...