Mahalia Jackson, the New Orleans–born gospel legend, is the focus of 'Glorious Mahalia,' a new release from Kronos Quartet.

It’s hard to believe that James Hunter has been recording for almost four decades now. His Off the Fence is his eleventh ...

An excerpt from the highly anticipated authorized biography of Justin Townes Earle shows how he wrote his biggest hit and became a Nashville legend.

The milestone will be celebrated Friday, Jan. 16, when the Sacramento Blues Society and K-ZAP present “Kyle Rowland’s Rowland ...

For the last three years, the Huntington Blues Society has had the perfect home for its monthly open jam at the Fly In Café, at the nearby Robert Newlon Airpark at 6090 Kyle Lane in Huntington. The ...

Slash's grandma had the blues and rock 'n' roll is better for it. The famed Guns 'N Roses guitarist, who just dropped the blues album “Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival” on Nov. 7, was rocking and ...

Nothing in the early part of the Moody Blues' discography hints at what was to come later. Starting as a British R&B group inspired by the U.S. music charts and the wave of popularity following the ...

"We just recorded one of the shows and we sort of mixed it and that was it," Slash told host Chuck Armstrong about the new live album. "I love the spontaneity of [it]. As a kid, when I first started ...

BELOIT — Matthew “Pops” Fletcher Goodwin remembers the first time he performed live before an audience at the age of 13. He was the singer in a band called The Bitter End. Sixty years later, he is ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Long before her six Grammy nominations and her signature 1973 hit “Midnight at the Oasis,” a young Maria Muldaur was befriended by a pioneering blues singer-songwriter named Victoria Spivey. A ...

A jam-packed week of new music releases includes a salute to one of the country’s most venerable blues venues, the return of a visionary British jazz-rap troupe and with new titles from the likes of ...