These notes give the music the distinctive Blues sound ... one can't get any more specific about the meaning of the word "Blues." The next question then is, just what of all this Blues is being ...

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 ...

Through its spoken-word introduction and smooth guitar ... It serves as a reminder that the blues is more than music—it’s a historical and cultural statement. Why You Must Listen: King merges ...

The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues music — entirely influenced by the authentic black blues of the USA, and, for the ...

Greg Johnson, head of special collections and professor in the UM Libraries, places a record on the Blues Archive’s antique ...