Like red beans and rice, barbecue and the blues belong together. Unlike red beans and rice, neither barbecue nor the blues are typically associated with New Orleans. The Crescent City Blues & BBQ ...

Ron Teamer poses next to one of his many electric guitars. The Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival was created as a place for a small group of influential blues artists from northeast Kansas ...

The longest-running syndicated blues program Blues Deluxe will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2023. The program, hosted by Dave Johnson, offers a one-hour presentation of new and classic ...

The blues might be the quintessential American musical genre. Born out of hope for the future and a recognition of the dark, at times, inhumane past, the genre has spawned big names, important music, ...

I first heard Kingfish live in 2013 at Red’s Juke Joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi, one of the last authentic juke joints in the south. Kingfish was just 14 years old, already spilling over with ...