Blues music is a soulful genre. It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and resilience of Black life in America.

No one sings pain, joy, or survival quite like a blues singer. Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of enslaved African Americans, blues music rose up from the cotton fields and ...

In the nearly six decades since Roomful of Blues was founded in 1967, upwards of 55 members have passed through its ranks. But in all that time, save for a three-month stint, Texas-born Lou Ann Barton ...

Towards a definition -- The classic blues, Vaudeville style : Mamie Smith, Lucille Hegamin, Edith Wilson -- Brief interlude : reflections on Rosa -- The classic blues : Southern style : Ma Rainey and ...

Mississippi Delta bluesmen -- Chicago blues school -- Texas blues tradition -- Women of the blues -- Blues outside the delta siris_sil_602451 ...