Ain’t Done with the Blues can be pre-orde r ed now. It features guest appearances by an impressive roster of respected music artists, including Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Joe Bonamassa, Christone ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. — Steven Salter, mayor of Whitehall, has dedicated thousands of hours to the Killer Blues Headstone Project, which provides headstones for blues musicians buried in unmarked graves ...

A new Mississippi Blues Trail Marker is honoring a local blues legend.Visit Mississippi held a ceremony unveiling the marker outside the Iron Horse Grill on West Pearl Street in downtown Jackson on ...

This month, Houston's best blues acts battle for a shot to represent the city at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. The Houston Blues Challenge will take place across three Sundays of ...

If you happened to be at the corner of Wabash and Balbo at 11 p.m. in early February, you would have seen a small crowd gathered around an 87-year-old man with a beaming smile. Nattily attired in a ...

Blues guitarist Buddy Guy sums up his illustrious career pretty succinctly in his Instagram bio: "8x Grammy Award winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and Chicago Blues legend." Character limits aside ...

Ma Rainey is best known, but Ida Cox, Cora Mae Bryant, Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins and Precious Bryant left essential music. From left to right: Ma Rainey, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Ida Cox, Precious ...

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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+ ...

Buddy Guy is ranked No. 27 on Rolling Stone's list of the 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He turns 90 in July and is ...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis sports have lost an icon. Blues legend Bob Plager, 78, died Wednesday after a car crash on I-64 in St. Louis. Plager was born on March 11, 1943 in Kirkland, Ontario in Canada.

News of his death was confirmed by Toronto blues musician Paul Smith in a Facebook post on Sunday, March 1 "The blues world has lost a giant," Smith wrote in the post Legendary blues guitarist and ...