With the death of John Mayall in July, we lost one of the architects of the '60s blues boom that transformed Britain’s music scene and restored America’s blues guitar pioneers to their ...

Rod Stewart's illustrious rock legacy, spanning from the anthemic 'Maggie May' to the poignant 'The Killing of Georgie', is well-documented in music history. Yet, if you delve into his past, you ...

His parents introduced him to blues music as a kid, and by age 11, he was playing gigs at local blues joints — work that brought in much-needed money. Ingram and his mother were homeless for a time.

Gainesville's African American blues artists helped bridge the racial gap between communities in the 1960s and ’70s as the nation was strained with racial tensions.Charles Steadham, known at the ...

Robert “Mack” McCormick’s life was all about the blues. His Houston home was stuffed with reel-to-reel tapes, research files and vinyl records. But by the time he had died at age 85 in 2015 ...

The essential records that chart blues music’s epic journey ... Quite simply, the rest of the 60s and early 70s blues rooted bands would have sounded different without it! Standout track: Route 66.

The 1950s and 1960s were pivotal decades in music history, particularly for black female singers who broke barriers and impacted various genres. These talented women brought jazz, blues, R&B, soul ...

He wrote over 60 blues, spirituals, and popular tunes, including the perennial blues standard St. Louis Blues. W.C. Handy was born in Florence, Alabama, November 16, 1873, the son of former slaves.

(crowd cheering) (60's rock music) - [Narrator] In the early 60's in England, there was a group of young musicians who wanted to play the American Blues music of the Deep South.

One determined music lover’s road trips across the U.S. brought legends like ... an Englishman who in the 1950s and ’60s published some of the earliest and best histories of blues music, ...