A trip back in time, times two. That’s where the Founders of Roomful of Blues will be taking its audience next Thursday evening (Aug. 22) when the group steps onto the Payomet Performing Arts Center ...

There may be no regional genre of music more prone to tooting its own horn than Texas blues, and with good reason. Alan Govenar's new book, Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound (Texas A&M ...

More than 40 years ago, a handsome sideburned gentleman used to tear up the sedate Saturday night Louisiana Hayride program with a wiggle and a sneer, a hiccup and an attitude. The bold new sound came ...

Nashville’s Excello Records had a blues pipeline to J.D. Miller’s studio in southwest Louisiana. From 1955 through 1965, Miller produced swamp blues records for Excello, and many of the label’s ...

We explore where the blues came from and its influence on many modern genres of music. We explore where the blues came from and how it went on to influence many modern genres of music. From Delta ...