You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from ... Perhaps the most famous blues musician of all time, B.B. King (1925-2015 ...

Black country, folk and blues musicians have always been vital to the genres' very American, very long legacies. The all-powerful Beyoncé, with her latest album, "Cowboy Carter," has shined a ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired ... wiping out the old order. The flood wiped out the crops in the areas it devastated, so any black sharecroppers in that area knew ...

Six concerts and The Big Gig! are scheduled for the Monroe County Library System's 2025 Black History Month Blues Series. See the schedule here.

David Chiu is a freelance music writer ... a difficult time and a pretty radical thing to be celebrating Black culture at that time.” Filmmaker Augusta Palmer. Relatedly, The Blues Society ...