B.B. King is a singular blues guitarist. He is instantly recognizable in a genre of music that has for hundreds of years relied on generally the same chord structure and patterns. Why? Because B.B.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think about the roots of blues music—the raw honesty, the pain wrapped in poetry, the joy carved out of hardship—I think of Ma Rainey. Her voice was more than a sound; it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Courtesy of J&R Adventures By the time B.B. King recorded “The Thrill Is Gone” in 1969, the blues had already traveled far ...

From Lead Belly to Janis Joplin, we profile 15 great blues singers who helped shape this most emotive and expressive of music ...

“Sure you can,” said Corey Harris, the Grammy-nominated blues guitarist who had joined a classroom of nearly 30 students at the Springfield Conservatory of the Arts. “Alright, how about blues in ...

His song, “The Blues Is All Right,” became an international blues anthem. He won the 1988 W.C. Handy Blues Entertainer of the Year Award and a 2000 Grammy nomination. Milton Campbell doesn’t think ...

There’s an old saying: It takes one to know one. Well, what if there was a song built around that idea? And what if that song was a classic country number, a folk tune performed by the greats, from ...