The Blues Trail was created nearly two decades ago with markers located at significant places that helped shape the genre.

We spoke to Robert Randolph, The Teskey brothers, Taj Farrant and , Kanchan Daniel, about the past and future of blues.

Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan. 8, Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African Americans Who Made ...

These tribal African dances are reflected in modern ... “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” 2021. His music was saturated with the blues, jazz, foot-stomping soul and classical music.

Florida’s Got the Blues,” is a traveling exhibit that examines the influence the blues had on the music community, the ...

Africa remains deeply traditional, rooted in age-old customs and traditions that are inseparable from music and dance.” Chandler produced a run of cultural festivals in Mali. Songhoy Blues ...

The first time I went to a mostly African American church service, I was blown away by the music. One word came to mind – Motown. I felt the same beat, the same spirit of listening to groups and ...

Though the tune was credited to Williams, musicologists believe the song was based on an African ... British blues explosion helped put him back in the spotlight and expose his music to a wider ...

I wonder what the trumpist version of culture is. Somehow, I am reminded of the German word Kultur; maybe some Wagner in the ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...

“She did. I do. Our children too.” This is not to say “Black in Blues” is about music, although that’s part of it. But more to the point, it is a book of questions. “Still, I wondered ...