Etta Baker, 93, an influential blues guitarist who was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, died Saturday in Fairfax, Va., her family said. The cause of death was not announced, but she had ...

Britain’s discovery of the blues should have left America red-faced. From the Rolling Stones to the Animals and the Yardbirds, those bands defined virtually all of the music from the British Invasion ...

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New to the blues? Here’s what you need to know to get you started. Blues music is a genre that grew out of the American dream. Its roots were firmly planted in the New World before it migrated to ...

Two blues enthusiasts an ocean apart spent nearly two decades collaborating on a book they envisioned as the definitive history of the blues in Texas. Robert “Mack” McCormick was a Houston-based ...