Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated discomfort with success ...

LONDON — John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A ...

Muddy Waters once sang: "the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll." But it's more than rock… the blues makes a strong case for itself as the most influential sound in American music ...

Charles Steadham is no stranger to blues music. He has been playing the blues for years, performing in venues across the South. Not once was he afraid to play onstage in front of a crowd or even to ...

Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music. This is FRESH AIR.

Theola Kilgore, 79, a 1960s R & B singer who was best-known for her recordings of two Ed Townsend songs, “The Love of My Man” and “This Is My Prayer,” died Sunday at a Los Angeles rehabilitation ...

Special to the SentinelWhen Triple Play acquired over 300 classic jazz LPs as a part of a very large collection of records we purchased from an estate in Rangely, I took home every record that had ...

And Spotlight On Drums: Art Blakey - Sabu (Horace Silver); Safari; Ecaroh; Prelude To A Kiss; Message From Kenya; Horoscope; Yeah!; How About You; I Remember You; Opus De Funk; Nothing But Soul; ...

On July 21, 1966, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Overton Park. The chief speaker was Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who "told the crowd of about 400 Klansmen, supporters ...

A young Dickie Peterson, lead singer for Blue Cheer, performs their version of "Summertime Blues" for a TV show, circa late 1960s or early 1970s. [email protected] October 22, 2009 at 5:00 ...