The Tampa Bay Blues Festival was founded by Chuck Ross and a few of his friends in 1995. They knew that Vinoy Waterfront Park ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about blues music is that the genre is all about doom and gloom. Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak.

The youngest band to perform at the recent Baton Rouge Blues Festival, the Juke Joint Juniors feature middle and high school students enrolled in the West Baton Rouge Museum’s Blues After School ...

His unassuming Mississippi Delta nightspot is one of the last of its kind, giving blues musicians a welcoming venue and lately drawing visitors from around the world. By Clay Risen Red Paden, who as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. A still from 'The Blues Society.' Mention the historic music festivals ...

At just 27, fast-rising blues dynamo D.K. Harrell is probably a bit too young to be the subject of a feature film. But so many aspects of this Louisiana native’s life are worthy of big-screen ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - On Thursday night, Music Box Supper Club will become a rockin’, rollicking blues joint as award-winning, singer-songwriter-guitarist Ronnie Baker Brooks and band command the club’s ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

Years before there was The Moody Blues, there was El Riot & the Rebels, a rock band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1958 by Ray Thomas and John Lodge. The pair were soon joined by keyboardist Mike ...