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

Avant-blues band Blue Moon Marquee operates in a grassroots manner out of a bare-bones home studio on their Cowichan Valley property, far from insular music industry cities such as Toronto. But in ...

The story goes that the lyrics to “ Black and Blue ,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at ...

Which would adhere to the popular understanding of blue and the blues: sad people singing sad songs. It would also be a misreading, or rather an overlooking, of the ways the color and the music ...

BLACK IN BLUES: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, by Imani Perry Blue is humanity’s favorite ... Most clearly in the blues, the genre of music that evolved from spirituals and work ...

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

But how did a song about a flat above a bookmakers in Coventry's Far Gosford Street come to be adopted by the Sky Blue Army?

Barry Goldberg, a veteran Chicago-born blues keyboardist ... of Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready” that Dylan recorded for the film Flashback. He also served as music supervisor for ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated the legacy of incarcerated Nashville soul pioneers Johnny Bragg and The ...

From her long-awaited Grammy victory to a show-stopping double act in Mumbai, the Texan blues powerhouse captivated audiences with her soulful versatility For American singer Ruthie Foster, the first ...