“I just like to sing my soul,” Willie Mae Thornton, better known as Big Mama Thornton, is heard to say in a new documentary ...

Brandt TaylorConnecticut Old State House Food CourtHartfordJan. 16, 2025 The blues is a fascinating art form, because its ...

The show exploring Black America's migration out of the South through a musical lens opens Sunday as part of the Tucson Desert Song Festival.

Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in ...

Caribbean jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece's debut album for Blue Note Records, 'Blues In Trinity,' was recorded in London in 1958.

A musical celebration of life/blues jam in tribute to local blues artist Mamie Porter will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday at ...

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Baton Rouge’s blues community is mourning the death of singer Mamie Porter. A songwriter and vocalist who performed for 30 ...

Lincoln's Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal won the 40th International Blues Challenge last Saturday. The band took the band ...

The extraordinary blues singer Shemekia Copeland and her powerful band are at Infinity Music Hall in Hartford on Jan. 17.