Ontdek de klassieker Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out met o.a. Bessie Smith. Luister en lees meer op Blues Magazine!

Without the blues there’d be no rock’n’roll, but these influential blues songs were especially pivotal. The great blues artists talked, the savviest rockers listened. Without the blues there ...

B.B. King’s music is not just a relic of the past; it is a living, breathing force that continues to inspire and move ...

Ontdek het leven van Lonnie Brooks, van Louisiana naar Chicago, en zijn invloed op de bluesgeschiedenis in deze boeiende editie.

The lyrics of a blues song would be full of emotion and would tell the story of life and longing for better days. Blues in simple time with four beats in the bar and mostly follows a 12 bar blues ...

We spoke to Robert Randolph, The Teskey brothers, Taj Farrant and , Kanchan Daniel, about the past and future of blues.

After listening to pianist Jon Batiste’s most recent record album, Blues, for the umpteenth time, I reveled in the fact that this is “easy listening” music that could provide the soundtrack for the ...

Blues has been called the first truly American music. The colour blue has described melancholy and depression since Elizabethan times, but as a musical form its style was born from the experiences ...

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.

When the idiosyncratic Chuck Berry took on the blues, he did it his own way – as an intriguing 1983 compilation proves. The collection opens with “House Of Blue Lights,” a fast-tempo song ...