These blues songs from the Vietnam War era really captured the politically charged and countercultural atmosphere of the ...

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Many landmark moments in rock history have resulted from artists updating the blues in some way. In the 1960s, young English musicians were discovering and collecting recordings of American blues ...

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Charles Steadham is no stranger to blues music. He has been playing the blues for years, performing in venues across the South. Not once was he afraid to play onstage in front of a crowd or even to ...

John P. Hammond, a singer and guitarist whose virtuosic performances of classic Delta blues tunes in the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village in the 1960s helped instigate a renaissance in blues music, ...

Muddy Waters once sang: "the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll." But it's more than rock… the blues makes a strong case for itself as the most influential sound in American music ...

Why are the blues the lingua franca of guitarists everywhere? Why is the 1959 sunburst Les Paul one of the most coveted axes in the universe? The answer to both questions has a lot to do with ...