Joe Bonamassa plays Albert King's 1971 custom-built "Lucy" Flying V-style guitar made by Dan Erlewine. After the 1960s blues boom, the genre began to lose traction as rock, metal, punk, rap and ...

"I first started learning blues hanging out on Beale Street from a lot of the real old timers that were still alive, guys that had recorded in the ’20s and ’30s," Musselwhite said. "But I didn't know ...

The youngest band to perform at the recent Baton Rouge Blues Festival, the Juke Joint Juniors feature middle and high school students enrolled in the West Baton Rouge Museum’s Blues After School ...

Thanks to bands such as The Eagles and Led Zeppelin, these three blues albums from the 1970s are overly slept on.

Texas guitarist/singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Wonderland, 52, has accumulated quite an impressive resume of recording projects, collaborations ...

Applehead performing at re:HAB Bar On The Bayou. Credit: Photo by William Allen Ralston I first Met Dennis Clapp aka Applehead in Rehab back in February of this year on my birthday; no not the type of ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...