Preparing to tour Paper Doll, her album released last year that attracted rave reviews, Kansas City-born guitarist, vocalist ...

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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.

Many landmark moments in rock history have resulted from artists updating the blues. And 1967 proved to be an especially ...

More than two hours into a sold-out concert at Austin’s Paramount Theatre last week, a tall, graceful woman strolled onto ...

A musical explosion was already building beneath the surface. This video traces how early R&B, vinyl records, jukeboxes, and influential radio DJs helped fuse new sounds in the late 1940s, setting the ...

In New Orleans after the Mardi Gras parades, you can hear Big Freedia, Galactic, Dumpstaphunk, Jon Cleary, John Boutte, the ...

Rock music continued its evolution in 1985, but what didn't change were the iconic riffs and iconic guitar solos.

Some bands burned brightly before faltering. These 11 rock acts once promised greatness... yet somehow lost direction ...

For Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison kicks off a weekly series with a deep dive into the history ...

George Thorogood and the Destroyers may not be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but they will be enshrined into another ...

On April 3rd, Craft Recordings brings Bluesville back with AAA vinyl from John Lee Hooker and Lightnin’ Hopkins. No studio ...