As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues music — entirely influenced by the authentic black blues of the USA, and, for the ...

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

Blues and more with Larry Lisk. A full service blues show featuring classic blues to the most recent releases. Mo Blues Monday keeps you current with local and national blues news and information, a ...

Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and religious spirituals in church. Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues.

“And they also got me playing electric guitar: I didn’t really play anything other than acoustic until I started getting into ...

An investigation by BBC Africa Eye showed that the incident happened in a village in the far north of Cameroon. It also identified three of the soldiers who pulled the trigger. Africa Live ...

More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as the Rolling Stones ...

September 7, 2024 • The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes ...

St. Louis Blues head coach Drew Bannister talked about the things defenseman Philip Broberg is doing right during his first training camp with the Blues. (Video courtesy of St. Louis Blues ...

Cindy Ngamba fled Cameroon aged 10 and, now 25, trains at the Team GB gym in Sheffield. Brenda Biya says her family in Cameroon was angry when she posted a photo of her kissing a woman.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's government warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon. The Nigerian hydrological agency said on ...