LONDON — John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A ...

These hugely underrated bands from the 1960s have gotten some love after their heyday passed, but I can't help but think they deserved more.

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, musical heir to a long line of blues greats from the Mississippi Delta, has been compared to the likes of B.B. King. But while the legendary guitarist is one of Ingram's ...

Of all the bands in the 1960s that cracked open the colors of new musical possibilities, few are as underappreciated as The Moody Blues. The Moodies are widely beloved but taken for granted. They’ve ...

Theola Kilgore, 79, a 1960s R & B singer who was best-known for her recordings of two Ed Townsend songs, “The Love of My Man” and “This Is My Prayer,” died Sunday at a Los Angeles rehabilitation ...

On July 21, 1966, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Overton Park. The chief speaker was Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who "told the crowd of about 400 Klansmen, supporters ...

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 ...

Saturday’s event promises to showcase the extraordinary talents of award-winning musicians Johnny Rawls and the Jennifer Lyn & The Groove Revival band Johnny Rawls, a soul blues singer, guitarist, ...

GREENVILLE, Miss. — I recently moved to the heart and soul of the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the blues. Signs of this rich music heritage are all around me in this part of the state — the ...