“My goal is to build a new context around the blues,” says Carl “Buffalo” Nichols, and that’s precisely what the Texas-based musician is doing. His 2021 self-titled debut, Buffalo Nichols, saw him ...

The blues are some of the most iconic sounds of America. What began in the South in the late 19th century as a mix of work songs and spirituals evolved into a mostly secular, acoustic guitar driven ...

PUTNEY - Singer, songwriter, actor, storyteller and international blues musician Guy Davis has an impressive resume under his belt and he his bringing his repertoire of traditional blues songs to ...

Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once ...

Without a 2020 Baton Rouge Blues Festival, Jontavious Willis’ show on Oct. 16 at Beauvoir Park will be the Baton Rouge Blues Foundation’s first in-person event since March. The coronavirus pandemic ...

Isn’t it time for something relatively lighthearted to read or hear? Say, stories about life in New Jersey? Hey, did you hear the one about the mafia offering to sell the Chinese several Garden State ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...