It's easy to play the blues—or at the very least it's easy to learn the basics—but keeping the form fresh and interesting is another matter entirely. Likewise, any beginner can tackle a quiet ballad, ...

When great blues players return to their roots for a set of covers of the records they really love, you have a right to expect something special - the precedent has been set by everyone from Clapton ...

But smack in the middle of the band’s set, the energy shifted as the band stripped things down and delivered an unexpectedly ...

Lonnie Johnson’s Blues & Ballads gets an audiophile-grade vinyl reissue via Bluesville and Craft. Intimate, detailed blues for hot summer nights. As summer kicks into high gear and the heat starts ...

This isn’t a book for the fainthearted. It’s certainly not for the puritanical. This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references so scabrous they would make a pirate ...

German-born roots-music fan Chris Strachwitz founded Arhoolie Records in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1960 — a blues and folk boomtown on the verge of psychedelia. This deluxe-hardback book with four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all tracks gain the momentum that lands them at the top of the charts at their initial release. One of the rock genre's most ...

Dave Pomeroy — revered session bassist, president of the Nashville Musicians Association and international vice president of the American Federation of Musicians — is talking about an album he ...

Call Brad Mehldau's Blues and Ballads the pianist's "Every Man Set." There has been, from the beginning of Mehldau's career, a sense of the cerebral in his approach, with its classical music ...

The American pianist’s current trio has been together for over a decade, yet this set of covers is their first release since 2012. Each track is a beautifully crafted, richly detailed miniature with ...