Kim Simmonds, founder/guitarist of English blues rockers Savoy Brown, tells his story in this posthumous autobiography.

Suburban music fans are in for some hefty doses of tunes this weekend, with Blues on the Fox heating up the Western suburbs and the Winnetka Music Festival entertaining the North Shore. The annual ...

Each weekday morning, Ray Macklin, known as “Silky Ray” in the blues music world, helps Marion wake up with soulful vocals, sliding guitar riffs and syncopated rhythm. “Good morning, good morning,” ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – There's no way one can listen to the music of blues and not feel it. CBS 2 recently met a woman who tells the stories of blues greats past, present, future and female. It's her mission ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner. In ...

Muddy Waters once sang: "the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll." But it's more than rock… the blues makes a strong case for itself as the most influential sound in American music ...

Ozark Blues Society kicks off 2026 with its annual Bound for Beale fundraiser to send regional hopefuls to the final rounds ...

Ian Harper found a sweet spot to expose kids to the blues in a summer music program. It came in connecting a musical genre that grew out of the cotton fields of the Deep South to today's popular music ...

Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated discomfort with success ...

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 ...

At the tender age of 25, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has already been heralded as the future of blues music. That could lead to high expectations for the Mississippi native, who already has one Grammy ...