The blues was the foundation of early rock and roll, and these albums from the 1970s were classic examples of the genre.

While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

Folk-blues crooner Early James recalls growing up and living at a hotel next to a cemetery in Luverne, Alabama, where rent ...

He played keyboards with a host of rock luminaries, but perhaps his most memorable performance was as part of the band that ...

The music world and its fans saw plenty of heartbreak and tragedy in January with at least 20 notable musicians having lost ...

Garth Hudson in 2010: he was the primary architect of the Band’s unique sound - Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP ...

The Royal Navy has been monitoring a Russian spy ship after it was spotted around UK waters earlier this week, the defence secretary has told MPs. John Healey said the vessel, Yantar, was used for ...

Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert ...

John Healey, in a highly unusual statement to MPs, said the incident involving HMS Astute happened in November but the research vessel, called Yantar, then returned to UK waters this week.

The Yantar then left UK waters “without further loitering” and sailed down to the Mediterranean, he added. Mr Healey said: “I won’t comment further on reasons for operational security but ...

On their third album, 2020’s Optimisme, we described the Songhoy Blues sound this way, ”… an activist rock & punk band, not just a “world music” act… Some have referred to them as ‘The African Clash’.