Like most music, the blues was not a sudden spontaneous inspiration. Rather, it is a progression of musical styles that ...

The second of seven concerts to be presented this season by FOOTMAD (Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance) will feature a duo ...

NPR Music's new book, How Women Made Music, looks at the role of women in popular music. From the Grammy stage to lawsuits, women have been the subject of protest and celebration.

After the Runaways, guitarists Joan Jett and Lita Ford went ... This biggest female-fronted band on this list did not always have women members. In fact, Fleetwood Mac initially formed as an all-male, ...

New novel captures a legendary bluesman at an early midlife crossroads, well before the myth — that he sold his soul to the ...

(So enduring was her devotion that she had full-on married her guitar teacher.) And in the decades since she had mothballed The Metal Sisters, female guitarists had somehow become all the rage. From A ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The late John Mayall’s ability to nurture blues guitar prodigies is comparable to Yoda’s ...

But if Young was about organised chaos half the time, Reed was about making the guitar sound tasteful. While he may have his lineage in the blues, different pieces of his tone have been carried ...

What was the first presidential election year when women voters surpassed men as a percentage of the electorate? Since 1984, women have decisively outvoted men in every presidential election.

The UEFA Women's Champions League group stage draw has been made in Nyon by UEFA managing director of women's football Nadine Kessler and two-time competition winner Fatmire Alushi. The purpose of ...