While you’re reading, listen to our Best Blues Songs playlist here. The singer Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, who became known to many through the film adaptation of August Wilson’s play ...
his greatest tune, inspired over 100 cover versions; from pop crooners (Johnnie Ray) to jazz singers (Ella Fitzgerald) and blues rockers (Eric Clapton). – Charles Waring During the 90s ...
Jared James Nichols . There’s no two ways about it, the Nashville-based wild man of blues has had a big year. He kicked ...
For my money I want to go out to hear live music and hear somebody play something joyous and uplifting. People who don’t know very much about the blues think blues are sad or complaining ...
Backtrack Blues Band will perform on Friday, Oct. 18, 8 p.m., at the Palladium at St. Petersburg College, 253 Fifth Ave. N., ...
an Englishman who in the 1950s and ’60s published some of the earliest and best histories of blues music, and groups like the ...