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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How did forgotten towns give rise to the most unforgettable sound in American history? Along Mississippi’s Blues Trail, sorrow became survival, and every chord still carries the weight of its origins.

Everyone knows about visualizing data, but few have heard of sonifying data. Nevertheless, sound has great potential for organizing, interpreting and sharing scientific knowledge. Sound can also be a ...

President Barack Obama has Chester Arthur Burnett on his iPod, so we know the nation’s new chief executive is grounded in the classics. But besides the legendary Howlin’ Wolf, who are the other blues ...